When Macromedia first announced last year that it would be joining the old
UCon and DevCon together, combining the best of the two events into
"Macromedia MAX 2003" - subsequently held in Salt Lake City in November -
there were the inevitable rumblings in the user/developer community.
By now, however, everyone has seen that not only did joining those two events
make good business sense, it also made sense in the context of the enormous
impetus that it gave to the MX product suite.
Last month's announcement of the "MX 2004" product line, with its new
versions of Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks, as well as Macromedia Flash MX
Professional 2004, ought to have silenced anyone who still had any lingering
doubts. Whether looking at new building blocks like the MX Elements for Flash
and the MX Elements for HTML, or at the new look-and-feel for Internet
applications, call... (more)
The annual Macromedia conference has undergone both a name and location
change this year. One key thing remains the same, though and that's the
overall level and excitement of Macromedia's development community.
By many reports, attendance here at MAX 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is up
from last year's show and if traffic to the SYS-CON Media/MX Developer's
Journal booth here at the show is an indication, that is certainly true.
That's a fantastic sign in an economic year that has those even simply
breaking jumping for joy.
It's been a product-filled year for Macromedia, with th... (more)
On a recent business trip to Istanbul, I arrived to wall-to-wall coverage of
the Telsim controversy. Motorola and Nokia have filed a $3-billion lawsuit
against Telsim, the second leading wireless provider in Turkey, alleging that
Turkey's Uzan family borrowed all of that money with no intention of ever
paying it back, in violation of the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations statute. Telsim is currently denying these charges, and we'll
be following the case at wbt2.com as it unfolds starting on February 11.
Heading back on the 11-hour flight to New York, I spent my t... (more)
A few weeks ago I traveled abroad and visited London for the first time. Upon
arrival I followed the hordes of passengers through the long, winding
corridors of Gatwick Airport's International Arrivals terminal. With signs
pointing the way and chirpy airport officials ushering us along, I couldn't
help but feel like a sheep. Finally we - and about eight other flights -
arrived at Immigration. The immigration officials were moving rather fast,
stamping passports and welcoming people to glorious England as fast as they
arrived. When my turn came I wasn't quite as lucky. I'm not sur... (more)
One of the most exciting times for a publishing company occurs when it's
launching a new publication. Here at SYS-CON Media, we're going through that
time right now as we introduce our newest publication, MX Developer's
Journal. MXDJ will be covering the full range of Macromedia's new MX
technologies including Flash, Flash Professional, Flash Communication Server,
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, FreeHand, Director, and of course my personal
favorite – ColdFusion.
The ColdFusion content in MXDJ will be separate from that here in CFDJ
(though you might recognize a few familiar names), thu... (more)
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