Wednesday, June 7th. 2023, Phoenix, Arizona.
This is the day before the Creative Developer Summit, which is on June 8th.
I’ll be running an interactive, one-day advanced workshop during the Creative Pro Week: https://creativeproweek.com/
The workshop is targeted at developers working with Adobe Creative Cloud apps and will cover subjects related to ExtendScript, CEP, UXPScript and a little C++.
I know that many of you struggle with seemingly unpredictable behavior during the development and debugging of your scripts and extensions. This workshop provides you with the background knowledge you need to avoid many pitfalls and oddities.
The cost for a one-day pass for just the workshop on the 7th would be US$372.50.
This includes breakfast and networking lunches.
A two-day pass (workshop on June 7th + Creative Developer Summit on June 8th) is US$647.50.
The workshop will not be recorded, and your physical presence is required. You need to bring a laptop.
Please send expressions of interest, requests, tips, ideas to [email protected]
If you want to register, please contact me at [email protected] – I’ll give you a discount code you need to use when registering at https://creativeproweek.com/
The workshop only has room for 20 attendees. Don’t dawdle if you don’t want to miss out.
The workshop content will be flexible, and in part will be shaped by what is of most interest to the attendees. Subjects we’ll touch on:
Pragmatic Extension Development
- DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself): Extensive code sharing between UXPScript/ExtendScript/CEP/Node
- Shared Service Modules: transparently call across divides into services provided in server, ExtendScript or CEP JavaScript code.
– allow ExtendScript to call Node/JS functions
– allow server-based code running in an iframe to call ES functions
– …
- Efficient debugging, e.g.
– how to debug the startup code for a panel
– in a single debug session, debug ExtendScript, CEP JavaScript and browser-side JavaScript, all at the same time. This technique only applies to some Creative Cloud apps.
- Server-based panel UI for easy updating: move the UI code from locally stored ZXP into server-stored scripts. Run the panel UI from an iframe served from a remote host.
- Test-driven code: write self-testing code
- Write defensive, self-debugging code by adding debug instrumentation
- CEPSparker: hit the ground running and generate full-fledged starter code for an extension for any of the Creative Cloud apps.
- JSInterface – the counterpart to CSInterface: Tap the full power of Node/JS from ExtendScript. Make asynchronous calls from ExtendScript into Node/JS.
- Mix and match ExtendScript, CEP JavaScript and UXPScript
- Efficient logging
If there is interest:
- Writing ExtendScript DLLs: how to easily enhance ExtendScript with C++.
- TypeScript-enabled CEP development
- Transmogrifying InDesign EPUB output
- Interesting stuff you can do with InDesign IDML files