Rich Internet Applications and the systems that drive them
Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex Builder on Feb 24th, 2008
The title says it all. Here’s some links to the bits.
Flex Builder 3.0
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
Flex SDK 3.0
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK
AIR 1.0
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
Posted in AIR, Debugging, Flex, Flex Builder on Feb 8th, 2008
Edit: In a comment below Ted Patrick confirmed that Adobe has indeed already changed the licensing to allow for a virtualized Win/Mac combination. Fantastic News! One more reason to develop on a Mac! (02/08/08 11:42 PST)
I develop Flex and AIR applications in Flex Builder on my Macbook Pro notebook and I keep a copy [...]
I was reviewing Engadget’s coverage of Demo 08 this morning and I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw skyfire. skyfire is a mobile browser that claims to bring a PC browsing experience to the mobile phone for the first time.
Posted in Actionscript, Flex, Frameworks on Jan 25th, 2008
For my last AIR project and my current Flex project I’ve been using the PureMVC ActionScript framework. It’s a solid framework and on the whole I’m enjoying working with it. When using PureMVC for Flex and AIR development one of the questions I see consistently is how to create mediators for deferred components. In [...]
Posted in Conferences, Flex on Oct 19th, 2007
The fine folks over at 360 Conferences are soliciting our input to help shape the future of the 360 Flex conferences. If you’ve ever been to a 360 Flex or if you’re simply and opinionated conference attendee please take a minute to complete the short 3 question survey.
Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex Builder on Aug 13th, 2007
Ted Patrick, during the 360 Flex keynote, announced that the next Flex 3.0 beta will be available in October. While he didn’t go so far as to specify when in October I’m hopeful that the timing will coincide with MAX. In addition Ted announced that Flex 3 and AIR will ship in parallel sometime “very [...]
Posted in Flex on Aug 12th, 2007
I just arrived at 360 Flex (I’m in room 1209) and I’m going over my schedule for the conference. The session topics and speakers are outstanding and I’m having a hard time deciding. Of all the great sessions one in particular stands out to me and I want to point it out here; it’s “Practical [...]
Posted in AIR, Flex, Flex Builder on Jul 12th, 2007
Creating an AIR express install badge is relatively simple. Adobe has done all the heavy lifting for us, our part consists of a little prep work and configuring some Flashvars. It is our part that I want to focus on in this tutorial. What you will need to create a badge:
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Posted in Flex, Flex Builder on Jun 11th, 2007
Let me preface this by saying I’m a typical guy, I don’t read a lot of directions, especially beta directions. I’m usually too darn excited to play with whatever the new toy is. All this is to say what I’m covering here might well be documented somewhere. I just haven’t found it yet.
I was wandering [...]
Posted in AIR, Conferences, Flex on Jun 11th, 2007
For those of you that have been suffering night terrors ever since you passed on the opportunity to attend Apollo Camp San Francisco, redemption is at hand.
Mike Chambers just twittered/announced the onAIR Summer Bus Tour. Looks like a motley crew of Flex, AIR and Javascript developers are going to pile into a 12 person [...]