Calu's List of Useful/Useless Links

Calu's List of Director Useful/Useless?? Links

Developing with Director

Director Online - excellent source of advanced lingo articles
Director Web - one of the oldest web sites devoted to Macromedia Director
Mediamacros - lots of sample behavior, lingo scripts and other useful resources
UpdateStage Mile High Table O'Products - a comprehensive list of free and commercial xtras
Open Lingo - an open-source community project that lists many free, commercial quality, reusable software components for Macromedia Director

Director Mailing Lists and Web Forums

Macromedia Forums - the mothership hosts a few newsgroup as its way of supporting Director developers
Direct-L - a very active mailing list that focuses on all aspects of Director
Lingo-L - a mailing lists that focuses its discussions of lingo programming
dirGames-L - a mailing list that focuses its discussion on game development with lingo
Developer Dispatch - public web forum for Director developers

Xtra Development

The Macromedia Director Xtra's Developer List - has a great tutorial on how to get started
Director XDK mailing list archive - indexed every message sent since the list started.

General Software Development

Joel on Software - Joel's articles are always clear, concise and with humorous touch
MSDN - Anytime you need technical answer to questions, you can be sure somebody at Microsoft thought about it

Help with Databases

MDAC download - the main requirement for getting Data Linker to work.
SQL discussion - Microsoft have 3 general discussions on using the SQL syntax
ODBC DSN Less Connection Strings - FAQ on database connection strings for all known database