Category Archives: AIR

Flex/Flash Builder will soon be the easiest way to develop mobile apps

OpenPlug just released the latest beta version of their ELIPS Studio, which adds Android support. Currently ELIPS Studio is Windows only but in a month they will add OS X support, yay!
The latest version of ELIPS Studio has just been released. It brings the ability for developers to create native mobile apps in ActionScript and [...]

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Adobe holding a series of online seminars this week

Info here.
Some of the more interesting sessions:
Extending Web to the Desktop with AIR
Monday, March 24, 2008
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific
Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
Monday, March 24, 2008
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific
Building Rich Internet Applications with Flex 3
Monday, March 24, 2008
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM US/Pacific
Introduction to Adobe Blaze DS
Tuesday, March [...]

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Run Ruby code in the Flash Player?

Or even better write Flash/Flex Rich Internet Applications with Ruby? Ted Patrick says it may soon be possible.
When Microsoft released Silverlight the one feature that got a lot of people excited was that you could use the language you were most familiar with to build a RIA. Apparently Adobe has an internal project which allows [...]

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Log into Facebook with Adobe AIR (without leaving the desktop)

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Lee Brimelow on Taking Flash to the Desktop

This was my favorite presentation of the LA stop of the Adobe AIR bus tour. Lee is very engaging and shows off a bunch of AIR apps built with Flash. If you have a Flash, rather than Flex, background Lee’s presentation will show that you’re invited to the AIR party too – don’t be shy [...]

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Everybody’s chatting about Flex

…make that chatting on Flex. All Flex front-ends but a multitude of approaches to flinging the messages about on the back-side.

Ted (on Flex) has his AIRchat running on Python Twisted.
Derek Wischusen has his messages moving atop Rails, Apache ActiveMQ, ActiveMessaging, and STOMP (post 1, post 2)
Alex McCaw is the creator of Juggernaut which can use [...]

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On AIR Bus Tour Los Angeles Notes and Links

Tom Bray of Search Coders on stage
Here are my notes from the LA stop of the tour.
[Getting There]
The large orange juice before the drive up from OC might have been a mistake. Finding a rest stop in East LA is a potentially a pant wetting experience with an empty bladder, so having an Austin Powers’ [...]

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Merb on AIR – Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload

Merb was originally created by Ezra Zygmuntowicz to avoid some Rails upload issues.

This is one of the things that Merb was written for. Rails doesn‘t allow multiple concurrent file uploads at once without blocking an entire rails backend for each file upload. Merb allows multiple file uploads at once.

I’ve built ‘multiple’ file uploaders for Rails [...]

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Get on the bus

I just registered for the LA stop of the Adobe AIR Bus Tour. It’ll be cool to meet some other Flex/AIR developers in SoCal.

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Set up eclipse to compile MXML / AS3 (quasi Flex Builder for OS X)

The release of Apollo has renewed my interest in Flex, I was on the Flex Builder Beta for OS X but don’t do enough Flex work (yet) to shell out for Builder so… I Googled around for the best open source solution.
It was my lucky day as Todd Sharp updated Darron Schall’s 2005 post about [...]

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