I had a job where I got to use the Macromedia MX suit and I absolutely loved it.  Flash has to be indisputably one of the coolest things to happen to the internet.  Thank you Youtube, Homestar, telecrapper2000, and a myriad of crappy flashy band websites etc.  Dreamweaver was a phenomenal HTML editor, the design end would write clean well formatted code (as opposed to other Frontpage end editors) and had a lot of cool integration features.  I only did a little maintenance with ColdFusion, but it was easy to learn, and kind of fun to work with. Hooray Macromedia.

To be fair, we also had, and I enjoyed using Adobe Photoshop (which was better than Fireworks) and Illustrator.  Both were great programs.

Then on a sad day, apparently at the end of 2005, Macromedia was ingested by it’s rival Adobe.

Once again…I’m not a complete hater.   Adobe did a fantastic job with Photoshop.  They made the PDF format a success and Premiere and other programs had an important part of the market.  But why kill Macromedia?

I liked all of the macromedia stuff better before adobe got their clay-caked hands all over it.  And why do they want me to update my Acrobat Reader every other day?  It’s pretty much the same as it was in 1999, can’t they get it right yet?

I just saw an ad for an adobe media player.

… there goes the neighborhood

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