I'm in the general session 2 and the wifi is still crap, and I've just got on 10 minutes into the session.

It started with Tim Buntell showing some code, and then getting a very message from "The Cheif" and then appears Ben Forta in a Men in Black style to show some new features of CS4 including some very cool flash stuff. I hope now that my Live Blogging will work today,

9:45:47 AM
They are showing some cool stuff with Illustrator, Flash and Photoshop
9:46:57 AM
Cool feature in Photoshop CS4 with resizing an image and it knows the background from the photo so eeps everything else in perspective.
9:48:55 AM
Photshop CS4 has painting in 3d, very cool if your a designer ;)
9:49:38 AM
Now they are going over to Ryan Stewarts Lab ;)
9:50:35 AM
Now on to Thermo, which has gone, as it is now Flash Catalyst
9:52:10 AM
Designers able to create applications without code, oh no a can of worms, we all know they leave crap in the PSD's what crap will they leave in the Flex Project?
9:57:05 AM
Pasting a highly customisable component created in illustrator copy and pasted into Flash Catalyst
9:59:24 AM
FXG allows the round trip of design with CS4 should make life easier for everyone.
10:01:46 AM
A very cool and quick demo of 3d state changes looked very cool!
10:03:00 AM
Seeing that Flash Catalyst is in Eclipse and how sweet it looks. Looks like a CS4 product not an eclipse product. I have create hopes for Bolt! With these guys!
10:04:19 AM
First release for alpha will be Mac and then early 2009 will be on labs for Mac and PC.
10:18:53 AM
Showing a C based Emulater in AIR, so you can have a Marios Bro running in an AIR App.
10:19:16 AM
Found a few more issues with my Live Blogging grrrr.
10:19:43 AM
TIme has shown that Flex Bulder cna use the project from Flash Catalyst.
10:20:19 AM
Ben is showing off Bolt, some very very cool features there.
10:21:18 AM
Be has shown how to create some very neat and cool code that Flex / Air can call. Very Quick and Easy in Bolt! I WANT NOW
10:22:34 AM
Flex Builder 4 is able to lookinto the live function on CF Server and so will show the functions available. This is the same for all Web Services.
10:23:58 AM
Without writing code (Which is a god send) Tim has shown how to call a Web Service and return the data and populate grids in Flex.
10:25:06 AM
Flex Builder 4, will let you set functions on the client to call functions on the server. So you can quickly make a datagrid update and edit and save to teh DB its very quick and easy.
10:26:26 AM
One line of code to change all the database updates / data control.
10:27:10 AM
Flex Builder now has Netowrk Monitor. Very Cool.
10:29:31 AM
Visual Studio, with a Flex Plugin so .net developers can built Flex Apps, but will they know how to?
10:30:21 AM
A port of Blaze DS on to .net so .net developers can use AMF.
10:31:44 AM
Now showing Dreamweaver CS4 and its additional AJAX Support.
10:34:01 AM
Showing a Drag and Drop deployment of a Jquery accordion and then showing it working in live view of DW CS4
10:37:46 AM
While in dreamweaver you are able to view exactly what is going on in the spry calls and able to pick out things you need. While it is paused.
10:44:58 AM
Just shown the Headless Flash Player for Google Searching and Indexing very geeky ;)
10:46:24 AM
Flash Media Sever 3 has dynamic streaming, which can give the user the correct rate with no drop out.
10:47:18 AM
FMS 3.5 has made is easier to integrate video in to flex / air apps.
10:49:08 AM
It also has DVR sort of functionality so you can reqard a live feed very cool!
10:50:11 AM
Flash Player 10 does client to client with no server very to stream video
10:52:05 AM
Ted Patrick is coming up to talk about Groups!
10:52:20 AM
423 User Groups around the world!
10:53:02 AM
With the launch of groups a load more requests come in could be up to 601 in the next few weeks.
10:57:46 AM
Well thats the end of General Session 2 a lot to take in there!