MAX 2004 – My Last Day

Posted on Thursday, November 4, 2004 in the Flash category.


My last day at MAX wasn’t as fun as the first, but more of a learning experience. Went to a couple more sessions, learning some Flex and Central. All in all, the conference was VERY well put together, and I will definitely be here again next year.

Last night at the Sneak Peek session, some GREAT new stuff was shown… I have a video of the Flex, Flash, and Central portions of this, and should have this online tomorrow or this weekend sometime.

Flex – showed some great new Charting components. 1.5 is released.
Captivate – This is probably one of the lesser known, but GREAT application. You can literally create tutorials in 5 minutes (with audio, interactivity, etc)
Dreamweaver – Great new XSL template improvements. Homesite code tools added to the left toolbar. Collapsible code portions.
Flash – Showed a lot of the new player features shown in Colins movie. Also showed the new authoring tool! This is going to ROCK. You will see all of this in the video.
Central – Danny showed some great stuff here. Showed some new Central shells with autohiding panels, etc. Also, he showed prototypes of Flash running on the desktop with no shell, chrome, borders, etc.. Also, it had transparency and custom shapes.You will see the new desktop stuff on the video, but my tape ended right as he stopped showing it.
Cold Fusion – Even though their computer bluescreened right off the bat, they still talked about Blackstone and some of the features. They talked about some other default gateways that will ship with Blackstone, including Jabber XMPP. Also, about how Blackstone will support asynchronous events, and multi-threading.

Think about this. 1 year ago, they would have barely acknowledged that their was a new Flash in development, now they are showing authoring tools, players, improvements etc. to the general public. Good move Macromedia :) Look for the video sometime very soon.