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I’m excited to be partnering up with Comtaste for their “Meet the Guru” training sessions starting this October in London.
October 13-15th, I’ll be doing a three day course on “Programming ActionScript 3 for Flex 3“, covering everything you’ll need to get started with ActionScript 3.0 development for your Flex-based Rich Internet Applications.
Later that month [...]
I was amazed at the amount of positive feedback I got yesterday when Leo Laporte published the little twitlive.tv AIR application on his blog.
Decided to address some of the excellent suggestions that were coming in and spent another hour or so working on it before releasing this 1.5 build.
Here’s what has changed:
The application [...]
Some of the brains behind Ajax frameworks Dojo, MooTools, YUI, and Spry weigh in on AIR in videos just posted to the Adobe Developer Connection.
Last Sunday afternoon I was listening to The Tech Guy on twitlive.tv and when I accidentally closed its tab one too many times decided to quickly make an AIR app for it to have it available as a desktop application.
It literally took me 11 lines of code and a good 15 minutes to build. Decided [...]
Dojo is a JavaScript toolkit used to build Ajax applications. The Dojo Toolbox is an AIR based desktop application which provides immediate (and offline) access to Dojo docs and resources and more. More details on the SitePen and Ajaxian.
RIAdventure is a ColdFusion / Flex / AIR conference and event, on a Bahamas cruise. Yep, you read that right, you get to use your favorite languages and tools while enjoying the Bahamas - and the price is really good, too!
One of my favourite AIR features is the support of creating local database file using SQLite embedded engine. If you have SQL skills it'll be easy to storing persistent local data to your desktop application. You can use this feature to store application data, favourite users' configuration options, document-oriented application, to cache data and synch it with the network.
Creating a SQLite database in AIR is pretty simple:
Comtaste Training is proud to announce its new training course about Flex 3 development using BlazeDS. The course is the result of some enquiries made by our clients about those topics.
I've worked on the outline of the course and it's ready and I've just published it on the italian section of Comtaste's site (I'm working on the english outline for this training course):
Enterprise Flex Applications: Using Flex 3 with BlazeDS and Java (JEE)
The Flex 3 and BlazeDS course adds to Comtaste's course programs and it is the open source alternative to the Enterprise Flex Applications:Using LiveCycle Data Services and J2EE (Java EE) training course.
The Flex 3 with BlazeDS is a 3-consecutive-day lessons and we're scheduling it in the following three locations: London, Milan and New York City.
Over the months I have tried numerous Twitter clients and few have survived my wrath. Twitter has for me largely taken over from email and IM for staying in touch with colleagues, family and friends. Working with the constraint of 140 characters also tends to make sure people get to the point which you don’t [...]
The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too.
The Michigan Flex User's Group will be hosting a FlexCamp in Lansing, Michigan, on the 30th and 31st of July.
This FlexCamp is targeted at Flex and AIR beginners, and attendance is being limited to 150 people. And this is a hands-on conference - all sessions are designed to allow you to follow along on your laptop. Details posted online.
Have you ever wanted to store a users password, you know, that little checkbox that says 'Save Password' on any login form. Or maybe you just want to persist a session token or other information. You could use the Local Shared Objects or even the File API, but that isn't very secure. How do you [...]
Another very important and delicate aspect of desktop applications, but not only, is the one regarding data encryption. Encryption is the process of transforming data by using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing a key.
Adobe AIR has an EncryptedLocalStore class that allows to encrypt data to store it on the client’s machine. Adobe AIR EncryptedLocalStore APIs use DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) on Windows and the Keychain on Mac.
I’m really happy to finally be able to announce a project I’ve been working on for a little while now — www.riajobs.org.
A job board targeted at Rich Internet Application developers from various backgrounds be it Flash, Flex, AJAX or Silverlight.
Of course there are already great community resources available for those looking for Flash, [...]
For the past few months the crew here at Adobe, along with a few other brave adventurers, spent a total of more than four weeks traveling throughout Europe educating developers in many countries on AIR. My presentation for that trip was called ‘AIR Tips and Tricks’. Below I have included a ZIP file of all [...]
One of the benefits of web applications is the ability to quickly publish updates to the application to your end users. As soon as you upload the changes to your web server, your users and enjoying the latest version! With AIR, this becomes a little more difficult. What if your user is offline? Should they [...]
Recently I was lucky enough to participate in the authoring of a book on JavaScript development in AIR with Mike Chambers, Kevin Hoyt, and Dragos Georgita. What has been great about this book is how well it has been received by the community and the fact that you could download a PDF copy of it [...]
The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The method is part of the public methods of the HTMLLoader class: loadString().
It accepts a parameter that contains the html content to load within an istance of the HTMLLoader class. With this simple code you'll load the htmlToLoad string into the HTMLLoader class. The _html istance will be rendered as HTML the content through the WebKit engine
These days I'm working on the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook creating the examples for the chapter on the HTMLLoader class. The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The...
Yesterday we released a ’small’ update to the AIR runtime. In reality, this release has a few new features and many bug fixes that should relieve a few of the pain points you may have encountered in AIR 1.0. The major announcement is that we now support full localization, which includes not only the localized [...]
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