I arrived in Chicago earlier this afternoon as I will be attending MAX North America from Sunday - Wednesday.

This is my first time visiting the “Windy City” and it is a really nice place; very clean and very quite for such a large city, or maybe that’s just because I am used to NYC?

I am staying at the Hilton Towers and the food and drink at Kitty O’Sheas is worth the trip alone. The hotel also has a very interesting historical background as well.

If you should happen to be attending MAX as well feel free to look me up.

I am planning on writing a post soon after I return regarding what I feel were some of the more significant highlights of MAX 2007.

So what exactly is Adobe Thermo? Or at least what is this new product from Adobe which has been codenamed “Thermo”? I don’t think anyone outside of Adobe really knows for sure just yet…

Based on what I have read so far “Thermo” appears to be a cool new tool which will allow creative professionals to leverage their existing skills to build RIAs utilizing tools they are comfortable with such as the Adobe Creative Suite product line.

Regardless of the specifics, one thing is for certain - any new tool which builds on the Adobe Flash Platform can only be a good thing for RIA developers specializing in Adobe technologies.

So I guess we will just have to wait for MAX 2007 / Chicago in 2 weeks to find out more.

For more information check out Mark Anders post on Thermo.