Where to start? So many things learned, so many new contacts made.

My time at Macromedia MAX was a very exciting time in terms of career goals. So many times I have wished that I would have learned a technology earlier. Take, for instance, Java. I remember in college when it was this new language that was going to revolutionize the internet. After going through the pain-staking ordeal of creating an applet that said “Hello World!”, I moved onto other things. Now, I wonder what my resume would have looked like with 8+ years of Java experience and I’m just barely holding my head above water to understand all the lingo and peripheral issues around Java (not to mention the language itself). Oh, well … now there is Flex and the Rich Internet Application.

I feel like I’m getting into this revolution early enough to be on board for something special, something that will take me places. I’ve worked a bit with Ajax and understand that enough. But, what’s really going to change things is not one single techology. Its a change in how we use the web browser. Now that we all have a practical understanding of the browser and how to use “web pages” (the document), the next step will be to actually use the web as a platform (application). But, again, this isn’t about Flex, or Ajax, or some other rich internet platform, its about the web platform becoming a part of our daily work flow.

The folks at O’Reilly have used the term Web 2.0. Yet, the term “Web 2.0″ has been used in so many different ways I don’t really know what it means. Wasn’t the move to database-driven web sites termed “Web 2.0″ back in 1999?

Anyways, I’m ready for the revolution, thanks to my new friends at Macromedia Consulting and the Macromedia MAX conference.