<head>line news: the Singularity Web Conference is now <head>™. So you don't think that we're out of our <head>s for <head>ing in such a radically new direction just two months before the conference, know that we didn't take the decision lightly. You see, we came <head> to <head> with a company called Singularity Limited when their [...]

Areez Gangji, an intern here at Adobe, has written an article about the top 10 Flex and AIR applications for students. The article covers such great applications as Timetoast, Craig's List Desktop, Adobe's own Acrobat.com and more. Read the article, and if you're interested, help Digg it up.

Since reading the Google Chrome comic, the possibilities of running a new class of (web) applications in this new browser is exciting, especially considering that it’d most likely be part of Android in the future. With this new browser from Google, it’s not only re-igniting the browser war (mostly with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer), but also [...]
Just made a big announcement over at 25lines.com that should generate some serious excitement about the contest! http://www.25lines.com/?p=56
We just released Apprise 1.1 with several new features...
Well Google has officially entered into the browser wars with Google Chrome. From looking over their documentation, it appears that there main goal is to speed up the processing of JavaScript and also have tighter integration with Google Gears. In my opinion, this is a win, win for the general public and I don’t really [...]
The Flex team has been sharing nightly builds of Gumbo (Flex 4 project code name). The Gumbo home page was recently updated with a number of resources. Just in time, Mike Chambers has taken pains to put together various resources that are currently available for us. Design in Mind, Developer Productivity, and Framework Evolution are its [...]
Beer Festival + Flash Conference = Wonderful. I can’t wait to get there. I’ll be representing the Spaceship at this conference. It’ll be a pretty dev heavy session, covering the...

Labs is the Big Spaceship dev team's playground, where we share ideas and discuss code. Check out labs.bigspaceship.com for more discussion, as well as some of the tools we've built!
Using the NativeMenu and NativeMenuItem classes supported by Adobe AIR APIs is pretty easy to create native menu. But one cool thing very useful in a desktop application that works with local files is a Open Recent Files menu item features. This menu item acts like a history list of opened or created file. The NativeMenuItem class has the data property that allows to create a reference to an Object for a menu item. You can use it to create a menu item that points to a file on local system as shown in the following code:
http://www.25lines.com/?page_id=24 This is very much just an early draft of what I’m thinking of for the rules, based a lot on what I remember from the first contest. I’m posting it now for feedback and suggestions. I’m turning off the comments on this post. Please put any comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback in the comments over there.
Hi all — not a good summer for blog posts, as it’s turned out, but an excellent summer in every other way.  More news soon, please stay tuned: new products and new projects to talk about! A more short-term comment here: Marc Hughes is giving a talk to the Boston Flex User Group next Tuesday (Sept. [...]
Hi all — not a good summer for blog posts, as it’s turned out, but an excellent summer in every other way.  More news soon, please stay tuned: new products and new projects to talk about! A more short-term comment here: Marc Hughes is giving a talk to the Boston Flex User Group next Tuesday (Sept. [...]
A while back we announced that ColdFusion was going to be free for educational use. It's taken longer than we'd have liked to iron out the kinks. But, the ColdFusion 8 for Education site is now up and running and ready for your use. This offer is for ColdFusion 8 Enterprise, and is available worldwide. Enjoy!
We decided to begin posting our demos’ source code on a website. Download links are at Alternativa3D page. We hope that will help you to get into technology details. Source code has english comments for better understanding.
... expect a major announcement later today!
Getting domains (both www, and naked domains) setup properly on Google App Engine is not a straightforward affair; it has several gotchas. This quick guide summarizes the process I use with Enom as my domain registrar and DynDNS as my DNS provider. In my case, there are four actors involved in getting domains working with [...]
Scott Janousek just twittered about how you can pick up a 16GB USB memory stick for $30 these days. It made me think back to the first piece of memory I actually purchased. It was an upgrae for my Amiga 500 - an extra half-meg. It cost $75 for that 512 kilobytes. I couldn’t help extrapolating [...]
The compiled list of code samples from our Flex for Dummies book have been posted on the dedicated Flex for Dummies page of my blog. Each chapter (other than chapters 1, 4, 19, and 20) contains source code samples, and you can browse through them all online or download the code to run in Flex [...]
A few months ago, I was interviewed by a local TV station for a tech interest segment on mashups. I spoke with Tim McGinnis, the reporter featured in this clip and really had a good time. It was a short piece, but I still really enjoyed getting my couple minutes on the tube. My wife’s [...]

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