John Polacek

Developer + Designer

Adobe MAX Day 4

October 28, 2010   |   adobe, web   |   No Comments

Stuff I learned on the final day of Adobe MAX: Dreamweaver CS5 has some cool new features and worth a look even for web devs who prefer text editors. Adobe is developing a case study project for Citrus Cafe, a fictional restaurant, to demonstrate its methodologies for web development. Read this web development tutorial to [...]

Adobe MAX Day 3

October 27, 2010   |   adobe, web   |   No Comments

Stuff I learned during the third of four days at Adobe MAX: In November, Adobe is launch a new service for sending large files called SendNow. PDF Portfolios in Acrobat X provides a nice way to organize documents (including non-pdf’s and flv video) into collections that can be styled and templated. Use cursor:pointer in your [...]

Adobe MAX Day 2

October 26, 2010   |   adobe, web   |   No Comments

Stuff I learned on day 2: Keep up with the latest stats with data collected from Adobe’s SiteCatalyst at netaverages.adobe.com Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite, the technology behind the digital publishing efforts of Wired and other Condé Nast publications, is now available as a beta. It is possible to use a mobile device as a peripheral [...]

Adobe MAX Day 1

October 25, 2010   |   adobe, web   |   No Comments

Today was my first day at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. The full conference officially starts tomorrow, but they had all day pre-conference sessions going today. Stuff I’ve learned: Adobe is launching a new product, Rome. Adobe Bridge is not the performance hog it once was (especially when you adjust the default image [...]

Hello World

October 23, 2010   |   web   |   No Comments

This is my new site. I built it using WordPress, with a custom html5 theme I created.