I have seen a lot of blogging this morning about the final merger of Adobe and Macromedia's web sites this morning. The biggest change I have seen is that Adobe now lists ColdFusion on their homepage.
I have been blogging about problems I have seen since the conversion of the two sites started, but I wanted to add I know this has been a ton of work for Adobe. My kudos to Adobe.
Adobe and Macromedia websites have had some outages recently. I have been trying to get to MXNA all morning, and I have been presented with a ColdFusion error. From what I hear, they will have their web infastructure merged within the next few weeks. I guess I will have to be patient.
The inaugural meeting of the newly reformed Tampa Bay Adobe User Group (TBAUG) will be held this week at the International Academy of Design and Technology. The meeting time is on Thursday, November 17th at 6:30pm.
My former boss and good friend, Donald Bickel, is heading up this new group. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, please come out and help him get the group started with a bang.
I received an email from a friend of mine I used to work with in Tampa. He is reforming our old user group as the Tampa Bay Adobe User Group. They are going to be meeting at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Tampa. They will be covering a whole slew of products from Macromedia and Adobe.
I am going to my first Macromedia MAX this year. I am looking forward to seeing all of the other developers there, who I have talked to, but never met in person.
I am hopinh to do a fair amount of blogging over what I see and hear at the conference.
If you see me there, look me up.
Macromedia is now shipping Studio 8. This edition has a lot of features made for designers. I am anxious to try out the new XSLT features in Dreamweaver.
Most of the blogs I subscribe to are from MXNA. It is a great source of information about server side programming and Flash rich client programming. I hope that my blog will become one of the blogs that people want to subscibe to on a regular basis.
I was looking at some more information on Dreamweaver 8, and it looks like they are adding support for xslt. From there website, they state that you can drag and drop XML objects into your template, and Dreamweaver will write the xsl for you.
So far most of the new features look very cool. Macromedia has also added numerous changes to their code editor.
I was just checking out the new Studio 8 on macromedia's web site. I checked out a video presentation on Dreamweaver 8. The coolest features I saw had to do with css and different views including the screen reader. There is even a section 508 checker for accesibility concerns.
I have not looked at Flash 8 features yet, but it looks like there are some nice features related to mobile apps.
