While cleaning my PC, I noticed several old AIR applications I installed only on testing purpose. As they were installed with a old version of AIR, I was asked to upgrade my AIR application to be able to delete it… Deleting the AIR plugin solved the problem 🙂 Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn’t find any stats :(] it will certainly help… Read More »
Just a quick note to relay the information, Adobe’s great idea of offering online community driven cookbook is now extended to AIR. Access AIR Cookbook 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
That is a big news! The Flex Builder 3 Professional is now free for all students and edu customer: Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions. www.flexregistration.com Wondering why you finished your study so early? 🙂 Ahmet … Read More »
In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies. I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked… Read More »
Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex. Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did 🙂 Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed) Download source code Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time 🙂 If you… Read More »
Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy. For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR. If you didn’t started yet… Read More »
If you missed the news, please don’t forget that we will have our monthly meeting February the 25th at The Nomades. Notre prochaine séance AUGG se déroulera le lundi 25 février à 18h30 au Nomades (map). Au programme : – Une présentation des nouvelles fonctionnalités de Flex 3, par Thierry Bertossa – Une présentation sur… Read More »
The incredible advantage that Desktop application have on web application is the connection with the local computer (other application, file system, computation, …). Unfortunately the mix between AIR and desktop properties are not as far as Java or C. The most wanted functionalities are to launch native application through AIR and integration with native libraries.… Read More »
I just realized how much free content we can get from Google Books. If you don’t have enough money to buy all the books about ActionScript 3.0, why don’t you just read them online? Make a search for ActionScript 3 on Google Books and you will find some incredible title (not complete but still enough… Read More »
URLVariables Class allow you to send or receive data from an URL encoded feed (with the data property of the URLRequest class). There is so two possible use: Sending parameters to a server side script Read parameters written from a server side script The use is quite simple, let’s start by building the PHP file… Read More »
A while ago, the as3corelib has been published on Google Code with a useful tool: JSON encoder and decoder. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight computer data interchange format (that is intended to solve XML structure weight), that allows you to send Object (Array, Strings, Number, …) to your server scripts or to JavaScript.… Read More »
Great proof of concept released by Mike Chambers on how to create an interaction between C# / .NET and AIR application. You can have more information on the project home or from Mike’s post. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
The very often criticized Badge installer for AIR applications (for cause of security) have a nice tutorials explaining how to use and configure it for your own AIR applications. You can read this tutorials from the Adobe AIR Developer Center. this tutorials was done by David Tucker. Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!