FotoBooth downloads cross 3000

12/24/2008 05:09 pm by EverythingFlex in Adobe AIR

I just checked the Adobe AIR marketplace and noticed that FotoBooth has been downloaded over 2500 times and an additional 500 times from the badge installer here. If you have experienced the application, please let me know your thoughts.

Some Good MAX 2008 Milan Links

12/24/2008 04:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

The Adobe MAX 2008 Milan is supposed to have been a superior event to Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco. I uncovered very many news snippets about this event and to spare you with the frequent information overload narrowed down to one post with some links that I found interesting. I know that even MAX 2008 [...]

AIR 1.5 for Linux is shipping!

12/18/2008 08:24 am in Adobe AIR

Good news for Linux users - AIR 1.5 is now available. You can get the release at http://get.adobe.com/air/ . This should fix issues for a number of Linux users who used apps like Tweetdeck and Twhirl that upgraded to AIR 1.5 before the Linux release is out.

A Few Updates of Tour de Flex

12/17/2008 04:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

A Million Samples Gregory Wilson, one of the Adobe Evangelists behind Tour de Flex, wrote yesterday on his blog that the app has so far been used to view 1,000,000 samples. James Ward announced the release of the app on the 17th of November, exactly a month ago. Now, that is what we call stellar! When a [...]

1,000,000 Samples Served by Tour de Flex!

12/16/2008 11:16 pm in Adobe AIR

This morning, we reached an awesome milestone with Tour de Flex - One Million Samples served! When the application is connected to the internet, it creates a log entry on our server every time a sample is viewed so we can track popularity of each sample. The log reached one million rows this morning. [...]

Rounding up RIA IDE Plugin Release Week

12/15/2008 04:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

Starting the week with some fun: The Motley Fool posted a sensationalist, keyword-rich — and initially erroneous — article titled Adobe is Running Scared. Many, including Ryan Stewart, understandably were amused if not outraged. It is funny, one way or the other. Adobe and SpringSource are collaborating to ease the development and deployment of rich enterprise [...]

LiveCycle Data Services and Tour de Flex

12/12/2008 05:47 pm in Adobe AIR

In addition to the many UI-related samples in Tour de Flex, we have included several samples on accessing data from Flex applications. This is sometimes a mysterious topic for new Flex developers so we included some good samples to help you get going. More are already in the works. Below are some teaser screenshots. You can download [...]

Adobe Developer Connection Videos now on iTunes!

12/12/2008 05:30 pm in Adobe AIR

Today, the ADC announced that some of the most popular video content is now available via iTunes with more coming soon. To subscribe, click here. Below is a list of the content available today. Good stuff! Posted in Adobe Acrobat, Adobe AIR, Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, Adobe LiveCycle ES, [...]

Showing off Adobe AIR in Tour de Flex

12/10/2008 12:10 am in Adobe AIR

It’s been over three weeks since we introduced Tour de Flex at MAX and so far, the response has been fantastic! It’s great to see folks exploring the opportunities that Flex provides. I wanted to take a few minutes and point out some of the specific Adobe AIR features that are demonstrated in Tour de Flex. The [...]

Rounding up Adobe Layoffs Week

12/08/2008 04:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

Adobe in a recent press release announced that it “has taken steps to reduce its headcount by approximately 600 full-time positions globally”. This was buried in the middle of a lot of other dollar-numbers, and what narks me the most is the complexity of business writing which hides the message within itself. Peter of RIAJobs [...]

Rounding up Thanksgiving Week

12/01/2008 04:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

I hope you and your loved ones all had a safe thanksgiving week. The Mumbai attacks, see? Google had been one of the many that had a really bad time in the light of these events. The Google ads on terrorism must’ve been embarrassing to say the least. The upside of this is that the [...]

Adobe AIR Update Framework for HTML / AJAX and Flash applications

11/26/2008 06:02 pm in Adobe AIR

In August, I wrote the article, “Adding auto update features to your AIR application in 3 easy steps” that explains how to auto-update-enable your Flex-based AIR applications. There was a comment posted on my article complaining that the update framework didn’t address Flash-based AIR applications. Mihai Corlan recently wrote his own article about the update framework and [...]

AIR Bootcamp

11/26/2008 02:25 pm by EverythingFlex in Adobe AIR

Duane Nickull and James Ward recently conducted a 3.5 hour bootcamp at MAX. Duane has now made all of the materials from this course available for download. If you are looking to learn more about Adobe AIR, this is a great place to start. Download the bootcamp materials here.

Have You Visited the Adobe AIR Team Blog?

11/25/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

The Adobe AIR team started blogging towards the end of the last month on their team blog. Most posts are by Rob Christensen, Adobe AIR’s PM, but others write as well. It is nice to see it being updated regularly, and it sometimes has news that you get nowhere else. For instance, Rob reveals that he [...]

Using Adobe AIR and Flex to Make Your Apps Bling

11/25/2008 04:58 pm in Adobe AIR

At Dreamforce 2008, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, I co-presented a session about integrating Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. A recording of that presentation is now available. Let me know what you think.

Tour de Flex - How to add your components, effects, skins, etc.

11/23/2008 11:36 pm in Adobe AIR

We launched Tour de Flex at Adobe MAX last week and have already seen over 8,000 users try it! The pace of downloads is still accelerating as people discover this new tool. Also, it’s worth noting that over 250,000 samples were viewed via the application in the first 5 days. In other words, people are [...]

Adobe AIR 1.5 on Air

11/20/2008 05:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Adobe AIR

Adobe released AIR 1.5 a couple of days ago during the MAX conference. This is in line with people’s expectations as being one of the interesting revelations. But I almost missed it until Adobe pushed an update notification to my laptop recently. Dan Orlando must be relieved. Almost a month ago, he accidentally let out some [...]

Oracle CRM Gadgets using Adobe AIR and Flex

11/18/2008 10:06 pm in Adobe AIR

eWeek.com is reporting that Oracle has released five new CRM Gadgets built using Adobe AIR and Flex! At Oracle OpenWorld 2008 I had the chance to record a video of these new gadgets. Check it out: This is a great innovation in the usually boring CRM software space. Great job Oracle!

Oracle CRM Gadgets using Adobe AIR and Flex

11/18/2008 10:06 pm in Adobe AIR

eWeek.com is reporting that Oracle has released five new CRM Gadgets using Adobe AIR and Flex! At Oracle OpenWorld 2008 I had the chance to record a video of these new gadgets. Check it out: This is a great innovation in the usually boring CRM software space. Great job Oracle!

Using Encrypted SQLite database in AIR 1.5 (from the cookbook)

11/18/2008 04:11 pm by EverythingFlex in Adobe AIR

The following example is covered within the new Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook Adobe AIR 1.5 now includes the ability to encrypt your SQLite database. The example below is a complete application. Be sure to use a compile with a minimum of the Flex 3.2.0.3266 SDK (or the latest stable build), set the application namespace to [...]