Regardless of what you may specifically think of the CS3 iteration of the venerable Dreamweaver visual Web editor, even the most hardened skeptics would probably be forced to (grudgingly) agree that the integration of Adobe's Spry framework for Ajax into Dreamweaver CS3 is, to put it very technically, pretty freaking cool.

LightWave 9 has been available for months, but it's taken the promise of the forthcoming Universal Binary release to finally get me to slip out of the cozy old slippers that were version 8.x. And despite my being behind the curve, gentle reader, I hope you won't mind me stopping by from time to time to convey some LightWave 9 knowledge, much as I did for earlier versions. So I'll stop pretending I'm writing a teaser for Masterpiece Theater here and just get to today's screencast, which just so happens to be an introduction to LightWave 9's amazing Node Editor.