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February 16, 2006
Lists, Forums, Blogs: Where do you get your Director info?
As I'm muddling my way through 2006 and still becoming comfortable being an Adobe employee I've found myself doing a lot of mailing list and forum coverage. I'm trying to be in touch with the Director developer community as the demand for information is quite high at the moment. One of the things that struck me was how many different lists and forums are out there for topics like Director, Flash, Photoshop, etc. I guess I had lulled myself into feeling like "I've got it all covered" with respect to Director/Shockwave when in reality that's probably not the case. So I'm interested, how are you folks staying informed about all things Director? What mailing lists or forums you use to get help while doing development? What blogs do you monitor to stay informed about Director/Shockwave development as well as software development in general?
I'll start the conversation by citing the mailing lists I monitor regularly (daily basis):
Dir3D-L
Direct-L
Director_List (German)
DirGames-L
IGDA Casual Games SIG
Lingo-L
MM XDK-L
I'll admit that I'm also leaving off a few private/semi-private forums as well as beta programs I participate in. Beyond mailing lists I also try to monitor and periodically post to the Director Support Forums:
Director - 3D
Director - Basics
Director - Lingo
Director - Multiuser Server
As far as blogs go I've stayed focused on reading what comes across the Macromedia XML News Aggregator (MXNA) and in specific I obviously monitor the Director catagory. The MXNA has led me off to a number of personal and professional blogs as well as some interesting websites, but I haven't yet expanded much beyond that in terms of regular monitoring.
So I'm interested, how close to having it "all" covered does that leave me? I sense I've got the main areas reasonably well covered, at least as far as English speaking lists/forums/blogs I do. :) What am I missing? Where do you go?
Posted by thiggins at February 16, 2006 02:21 PM