http://www.stevesmart.com/ stevesmart.com is the homebase for Steve Smart, a visual motion artist, part-time Flash developer, Father and Husband. en-us steve@stevesmart.com 2006-10-23T17:56:50-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001336.php Adobe's MAX developer conference starts tomorrow in Las Vegas. I would be love to be there this year, but it didn't quite work out. I've been before, in 2003 and 2005, and it always manages to be a great conference... 1336@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2006-10-23T17:56:50-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001245.php I was reading up on some of the details of this year's Adobe MAX devcon, in particular the Max Awards (more on that later) and I noticed that the location is in Vegas this year at The Venetian Hotel. While... 1245@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2006-08-28T17:07:18-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001170.php Adobe has unveiled the agenda for MAX 2006 which is in Las Vegas this year. I'm very interested in the Rich Internet Applications track, but the Live Cycle track looks great too. I think Live Cycle as a product family... 1170@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2006-07-10T14:52:08-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001149.php Adobe has a first glimpse of information about the super cool developer's conference they inherited from Macromedia last year. I've been to MAX in 2003 and 2005 and it's a really great time, albeit one with rooms of serious brainpower.... 1149@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2006-06-09T10:35:51-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000832.php Macromedia has posted the day 1 and day 2 keynote videos from the recent MAX conference, of course in FLV flash video format. This is also a great example of video presentation and video chapter bookmarking. As a little sidenote:... 832@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-26T15:34:09-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000825.php Part of the fun of the MAX conference is seeing the incredible examples of work done with Macromedia tools around the world. The diveristy of the work, the cleverness and the quality are all amazing and inspirational. Here's a look... 825@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-24T12:51:55-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000822.php During his Object-Orientated ActionScript session, Colin Moock mentioned that he is now using the new Flex Builder 2 alpha release as an Action Script editor. Basically, with FB2's SWF compiler, this will allow a developer to create SWF content without... 822@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-19T12:26:43-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000820.php click to view This panoramic image I shot in the main exhibit hall next to the cyber cafe (fancy name meaning "row of computers you can use to surf the net") without any tripod and not really paying attention to... 820@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-18T21:07:01-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000819.php This guy was wearing this sign around all day obviously quite keen on finding an available flash coder for higher... er, rather... for hire. (thanks Lisa)... 819@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-18T21:03:33-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000818.php Here, in rough form for now, are my notes from the day two general session:Day 2 keynote opened with a live skit based on the Meet Your Match online video presentation used for the Studio 8 launch. Same actors... 818@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-18T16:26:42-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000817.php Macromedia Flash architect Grossman spoke this morning about the future of actionscript as Macromedia rolls out betas of AS3.0 this week. This looks to be another huge leap in performance similar to what we just experienced in the Flash 8... 817@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-18T16:12:29-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000816.php When I attended MAX 2003 in Salt Lake City, there were two big initiatives that were being pushed by Macromedia: Flex and Central. While Flex seemed to promise a great deal of power, features and flexibility, Central was the one... 816@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-18T11:47:39-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000815.php A few quick images from day one of the MAX conference: Huge MAX banners on the front of the Anaheim Convention Center. Here's a look at the attendee ID badge for your review, if you're into that. Inside the Anaheim... 815@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-18T09:25:52-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000814.php From the MAX session on Photoshop and Flash Integration: This PSD2FLA tool from Media Lab is a slick $89 app that will automate the process of exporting as PNG and then importing into Flash all the layers from your PSD... 814@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-17T17:20:38-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000813.php Here's a neat thing, Macromedia employees onsite here at MAX are crusing around the conference with USB keychains and will install trial versions of Macromedia products right on your laptop for you. This is great if you're perhaps not able... 813@http://www.stevesmart.com/ MAX 2005-10-17T16:56:07-06:00