I found this great rundown from Sönke Rohde, and this one from Serge Jespers, on the new Adobe technologies introduced at MAX.

Branden Hall has great article on Alchemy, a new technology which compiles C/C++ into Actionscript. This will allow Flash and Flex developers to take advantage of powerful open-source C/C++ code libraries.

One of the underlying themes at MAX that was interesting for me is that many of the applications are moving to open, XML-based formats (INDL, FXG, FXP, XFL), which will allow people like me to write applications that interact with those files. Combine that with the ability to create desktop applications with AIR, and new extensibility tools like Switchboard and PatchPanel, and all of the sudden I’ve got a tremendous amount of control over my workflow. There’s also a lot of potential to create tools for others to use.

Looks like recorded sessions from MAX North America will be available (for free) in the next two weeks or so at tv.adobe.com. I planning on checking out many of the sessions that I missed as there were far too many good sessions to choose from.

Liveblogging from MAX NA 2008:

Jen DeHaan
Peter DeHaan (2) (3)
Serge Jespers (2) (3) (4)
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