Archive for October, 2005
MAX 2005: Tuesday Keynote
The Tuesday keynote started with a humor sketch based on the Flash movie that pushed the Studio 8 launch — the “Make a Match” thing.
Then David Mendells took the stage to talk about how well Flash video is doing. A series of demonstrations showed off some of the new features of Flash 8 video. We [...]
MAX 2005: Next Generation ActionScript
Gary Grossman of the Flash player team at Macromedia talked this morning about “Next Generation ActionScript.” He started by looking at the evolution of ActionScript with each version of Flash. Flash 8’s main change was mainly “performance improvements.” ActionScript 3.0 is a part of the Flash player 8.5. It is mostly there for Flex 2.
There [...]
MAX 2005: Blog Round-Up
I’m not the only one blogging here at MAX. Michael Hagel has a summary of the sessions he went to yesterday. Marco Masario covers an interesting press release about BREW and Flash Lite working together on future mobile devices, Kai König has some coverage, as does Director Online editor Darrel Plant.
Oh, and here’s the press [...]
MAX 2005: Director Get-Together
A few dozen Director folks gathered at the hotel bar in the Marriott on Monday night. The even was sponsored by Macromedia, Intergration New Media and Director Online. However, in the end, Macromedia (Thomas Higgins) picked up the entire tab. INM and Macromedia gave away some prizes as well. Nothing new to report as it [...]
Max 2005: Director “Birds of a Feather” Gathering
Thomas Higgins from Macromedia lead a question and answer session tonight for Director developers. About 30 people attended. When asked about the future of Director, he said the he expects a major release in about 12 months, which is good news. But the Director team, which now numbers about a dozen or so, is waiting [...]