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 [...]
Posted in AIR, Frameworks, Java on Feb 5th, 2008
We knew it was coming but we didn’t know when or in what form. Adam Flater just posted that the Artemis project has officially been reborn as the Merapi project. The list of contributors looks impressive, including both developers and designers.
For those of you not familiar with Artemis Merapi, it’s a framework for connecting Adobe [...]
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 [...]