Revisiting Linux

11/11/2008 09:25 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

I believe the day is finally near when I might actually be able to switch back to Linux. Ubuntu, AIR, Flex Builder, Firefox, Pidgin, Gmail. What else do you need?

Apprise 1.1: More sharing, more features, and more languages

09/02/2008 07:14 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

We just released Apprise 1.1 with several new features...

How do you want to share with Apprise 1.1?

08/06/2008 06:40 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

We're working Apprise 1.1, and we'd like some feedback. Apprise 1.0 allows you to share articles via AIM and Twitter, and for 1.1, we're adding the ability to share via email, as well. We're also adding...

Share stories right from your news reader

07/28/2008 06:04 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

Apprise now lets you share stories through AIM and Twitter right from your RSS reader. Oh, and we finally added folders, too.

Closing all your application windows in AIR

07/02/2008 07:28 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

Here's a little snippet of code I sometimes use in AIR applications to make sure all windows close when the main application window closes.

AIR 1.1 and Apprise 1.5

06/16/2008 06:38 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

With the release of AIR 1.1 comes a new version of Apprise, a feed aggregator written for AIR. Apprise is a work in progress with lots of additional features to come, but here's what we have so far...

The latest version of PixelPerfect (with screencast)

04/23/2008 07:12 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

PixelPerfect is a simple AIR application for measuring things on your desktop. If you want to see how it works, check out this screencast. If you want to see the code, check out the PixelPerfect Google Code project. And finally, if you just want to install it, click on the badge below.

Maptacular 2.0: a desktop mapping application for AIR

04/09/2008 07:43 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

Maptacular was one of the first applications I wrote for AIR. That was back when AIR was in still in alpha, so I didn't have APIs for things like drag and drop or copy and paste. Now that AIR 1.0 has shipped, I decided to rewrite Maptacular to to have the functionality that I originally envisioned.

Lineup: an Exchange calendar viewer for AIR

04/02/2008 07:39 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

I did a screencast of an Exchange calendaring application I wrote for AIR. It's one of the most useful applications I've written so far, and probably the most popular within Adobe.

Vote for AS3 AIR Projects in Flex Builder

03/28/2008 05:02 pm in Apollo

Currently, there is no way to create an ActionScript-based AIR project. There is a workaround where you create a Flex-based AIR project and remove the XML file and add a main class file instead and set that as your main application, or change the name of the file from .mxml to .as and make it [...]

Tips on getting a code signing certificate

03/26/2008 07:48 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

I got my own certificate for signing AIR applications a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I'd share my experience in order to help others more easily navigate the process.

Apprise: an RSS aggregator written for AIR

03/13/2008 04:06 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

Apprise is an RSS aggregator written for AIR. Watch the screencast, check out the source code, or install Apprise right from here.

Detecting network connections in AIR

03/11/2008 07:12 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

One of the biggest benefits of AIR is that applications can be written to easily function whether online or off. This article will tell you everything you need to know to reliably determine not only if your application is connected or not, but also whether it can reach the services it requires.

I am a FlexSDK contributor

03/06/2008 04:51 pm by blog.je2050.de - blog and database of joa ebert in apollo

Today I submitted my first patch to the FlexSDK after becomming a contributor. Lets see how this all will work in the future. It feels like I am working for free and fixing bugs that Adobe should work on but in several cases it is so much easier to just do the stuff and fix [...]

What you might not know about AIR (yet)

02/25/2008 06:38 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

If you're reading my blog, I'm going to assume that you already know what AIR is. Rather than tell you what you probably already know about AIR, I'd like to mention a few things that people might not have realized yet.

AIR Development on Linux

02/21/2008 09:14 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

It's amazing enough that I'm writing desktop applications using web technologies like Flex, ActionScript, JavaScript, and HTML, but to be able to deploy them with no changes across Mac, Linux, and Windows is seriously revolutionary. The idea that I can actually go back to using Linux day to day, and still be able to do AIR and Flex development is very liberating.

Transparent HTML in AIR

02/20/2008 06:31 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

I keep forgetting how to do this, so I'm going to blog it once and for all.

How to Make Application Icons Appear During AIR Development

02/14/2008 06:50 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

If you've started building an AIR application, you probably noticed that your application icons don't appear when launching your app via ADL. Fortunately, I've found an easy way to work around this issue.

Update on my AIR Applications and Libraries

01/23/2008 06:45 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

The most important part of my job is writing AIR applications, and I've written quite a few. In addition to applications, my team and I have written a great deal of reusable ActionScript library code (Amazon S3 APIs, Exchange APIs, etc.). Everything I've written is completely free and open source.

Converting Stage Coordinates to Screen Coordinates

01/18/2008 07:12 pm by Christian Cantrell in Apollo

If you need to know the exact coordinates of a mouse event relative to the screen as opposed to the window stage, don't try to calculate them yourself. Use NativeWindow.globalToScreen. Here's why...

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