Archive for October, 2005
MAX 2005: Mastering the 3D Experience
The first session of the conference is Andrew Phelps’ “Mastering the 3D Experience.” Andy is a regular contributor to Director Online and teaches as RIT.
His session was an overview of the capabilities of Director 3D. About 75-100 people attended.
Much of the session was geared toward those with little or no experience with Shockwave 3D. Andy [...]
Mission MAX
So on Sunday night I will travel to MAX, the last Macromedia User Conference. I’ve been to 7 of these since 1995. This will be the first time since the first one that I am not speaking. However, I will not be attending as a developer, either. I’m going as press — as managing editor [...]
Director Developers Get-Together at MAX
So the MAX Conference in Anaheim is almost here. In addition to my “mission” of discovering the future of Director, I am also a part of a gathering of Director developers on Monday night. Here are the details:
Director Online, Integration New Media Inc. (INM) and Macromedia would like to invite those of you in the [...]
Flash 8.5 and ActionScript 3.0 Already?
Macromedia announced a Flash 8.5 player for the first half of 2006. But the alpha version will be available on Oct 17, at the MAX conference.
Looks like 8.5 will just be a player release, not an authoring environment. The release says it will have faster performance and improved debugging. It also says 8.5 will have [...]