Aug 25th, 2008
I usually avoid any online video presentations that last longer than 15 minutes (my attention span limit), but in this case, I made an exception. This one hour and ten minute video is loaded with some VERY good content including information and demos of Flash 10, Flex 4, AIR 1.5, FXG / MXMLG, Thermo and [...]
Aug 21st, 2008
After you spend hours creating your AIR application, how do you distribute it? Unfortunately, many developers simply post a link to their .air file. This is fine for us AIR-savvy people but when the .air file goes to non-technical people, it’s important that the install process go as smooth as possible. Telling your Mom to [...]
Aug 19th, 2008
Yakov Fain, managing principal of Farata Systems, recently wrote a great article on Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) where he discusses LCES, Flex, PDFs, Rights Management, creating processes, etc. Article: LiveCycle ES 8.2 is a solid platform for business process management It’s great to see an article spanning all of these products as a single [...]
Aug 19th, 2008
In addition to the great list of general sessions and labs being offered at MAX this year, we’re also putting together several “Birds of a Feather” sessions. These sessions are much less formal than the regular MAX sessions and are more of a “led discussion” than a staged presentation, so they become much more interactive [...]
Aug 18th, 2008
Today, a bunch of new stuff was published on ADC covering many topics: Introducing Flex SDK 3.1 and Flex Builder 3.0.1 Learn Flash in a flash 10 common mistakes when building AIR applications High availability clustering ColdFusion: Using ColdFusion Enterprise Manager Export CSS and images in Fireworks CS4 beta Six reasons to use ActionScript 3.0 [...]
Aug 18th, 2008
All of us in central and southern Florida are doing our yearly ritual of watching the weather channel and preparing for this year’s first hurricane threat, Hurricane Fay. As you can see on the map below (as of 5pm EDT today), I am very near the projected path. This past weekend, we started going to [...]
Aug 16th, 2008
UPDATED 08/27/2010: We just released Adobe AIR Launchpad, a new desktop tool that helps Adobe Flex developers get started building desktop applications deployed on Adobe AIR. Auto-update is an included feature, so you can use Launchpad to generate your auto-update code. Native Installers now can have auto-update!: If you need to add auto-update to your [...]