The good:

- Overall organization: perfect place, a lot of supportive info, sneak peaks, general sessions rocked,Customer Appreciation event on Tuesday evening rocked even more (the best thing I've seen in MAX 08)

- Some sessions were really great: Michael Labriola's "Testing your flex app", Nigel Pegg's "Cocomo" , RJ Owen and Brad Umbaugh's "Deep dive into...", Sean Christmann's  "Optimizing Adobe Air...". There probably were a couple of other great ones, I am waiting for the recorded versions of them.

- "10 minutes of fame" booth was a great place to spend time, I wish someone recorded the mini shows and uploaded for public view.

The Bad:

Sessions: almost half of the sessions I attended were not at the level I expected them to be. As a developer I wanted to get inspired from Design-oriented sessions (Lazy Innovation, Designing Design), but was really disappointed with boring/not useful presentations. I wish we had Steven Webster (Cairngorm) and/or Laura (MATE) as one of the speakers in "The Flex Architecture Faceoff", because in first 15 minutes all speakers quickly agreed on "not to use any framework" and didn't know what else to tell to the audience for the rest 45 minutes other than repeating "why use framework? I won't use".

The ugly:

- Wireless connection

- Queues for "Session organizer" PCs

- Non working demos in sessions

- "We are running out of time, therefore I need to skip this slide".

- Why speakers are trying to write code during the presentation (applicable to both "sneak peaks" and sessions)?

Recommendations: Make a polling and see if you need to put more advanced content.

Bottom line:

Connect - 10/10

(Get) Inspire(d) - 7/10

Discover- 6/10