Back from break. The next 4 presenters are getting ready to go...

Danielle Beaumont is showing off custom skinning Flex and Air components using Fireworks. I'm not really familiar with all of the challenges associated with custom skinning (other than the fact that most Flex apps have a very similar look and feel), but I can see that what she's doing here is making a lot of people happy (loud applause).

Next up is Hemant Khandelwal talking about building online/offline apps with AIR & ColdFusion. This is huge. He's showing a typical application built using CF with the new layout and AJAX tags. Next he adds a new attribute to the cfgrid tag to tell it operate in off-line mode. ColdFusion then generates an AIR package containing the JavaScript, HTML, and other files necessary to make the application work. These applications can be run in both offline and online mode! There's automatic synchronization of data when an offline application goes online. He's now showing a mail application that's in offline mode sending data to the server. He clicks submit and data moves to an unsent folder. When the application goes back online, the data is sent out. This one is what a lot of ColdFusion developers have been asking for.

I have to post this now. Be right back for part 3...