MAXUP :: Mobile iCalendar Reader is Going to MAX

Posted by Ali Mills Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:07:00 GMT

MAXUP is an unconference that will be running parallel to the MAX conference from October 24rd – October 26th at the The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve been hearing about these unconference Foo Camp style spin-offs for a little while and like the idea. Since I’ll already be in Vegas presenting at MAX on design patterns in ActionScript 3, I’m going to join all these attendees and participate in MAXUP, too.

At MAXUP I’m going to give a demo of a mobile calendar project I’m working on that reads and presents remote calendar files (specifically iCalendar formatted files) on Flash Lite devices. Like most projects, this one has both a server and client component. The server is written in Ruby and the client in Flash Lite 1.1. I’ll be demonstrating the project running on my Nokia 6600 and Nokia N70 phones, and discuss how it was built. I’ll do my best to follow Scott Berkin’s advice on how to run a great unconference session.

Here are some recent pictures of the calendar running on my N70:

I’ll see you in Vegas!

If you see me first, come say hello. Here’s what I looked like 20 years ago: