I thought it was about time that I too did a wrap on MAX 2005. So here goes …
What an experience! Having only been in the industry for 2 years since graduation, I never really understood the scale of such an event. With approximately 3000 attendees, this made for one massive Macromedia party … er umm, I mean a great forum for learning and discussion :-p
Crikey! Did you see the jaws on that one 
The MAX sneak peeks showcased some new technologies and ideas from the Macromedia Engineering team - but with an Australian theme! Well not quite Australian but more Steve Irwin, but hey, it was a good laugh seeing Matt Chotin and Todd Rein with their fantastic Australian accents.
Check out the flash video of their act over at Mark Blair’s blog. Quite a laugh!
For a more detailed outline Jen deHann has covered the sneak peeks with a pretty comprehensive set of notes (from Sean Corfield)
I just spent the last hour in a session with Gary Grossman who gave a great overview of the new features and changes with Actionscript 3.0 and the API. The biggest points imho were the runtime error reporting, more strongly typed and standards compliant AS language, and most importantly the dramatic increase in performance. Many of you may have heard about E4X, and now it is here Such a nice way to code a read XML code on the fly, and treat it like xpath. Very neat.
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