Nov 26th, 2008
Adobe AIR Update Framework for HTML / AJAX and Flash applications
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 [...]
Nov 23rd, 2008
Tour de Flex – How to add your components, effects, skins, etc.
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 [...]
Nov 22nd, 2008
How I almost crashed the Adobe MAX 2008 Keynote with Tour de Flex
For the past 3 months, several of us have been working crazy hours to get Tour de Flex ready for Adobe MAX. Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, told us a week before MAX that he was going to use Tour de Flex in his Monday morning keynote to demonstrate several of the cloud APIs now available [...]
Nov 20th, 2008
How we got Tour de Flex on 1000 USB Drives for MAX 2008
We gave away 1,000 USB Flash drives at Adobe MAX this week. The drives contained the new Tour de Flex application and were very well received. Most of you probably assumed that we (Adobe) ordered these drives with the files already on them, right? Well, the timing didn’t work out that nicely. We had to [...]
Nov 17th, 2008
NEW! Flex Component Explorer – The Downloadable Adobe Evangelist
A few months ago, I blogged about the Flex 3 Component Explorer, a simple one paragraph article intended to raise awareness of the existence of the tool. To my amazement, this post has seen consistent heavy traffic and is in the top 3 posts in my 15 months of blogging. This led me to [...]
Nov 12th, 2008
LiveCycle ES Application Kits – Solution Accelerators
In the past couple of years, the number of LiveCycle ES implementations has grown dramatically. Although each implementation has it’s on unique attributes, several patterns have surfaced as we get more implementations under our belts. A new team was put in place to analyze these patterns and to find ways to “package” reusable, extendable assets [...]
Nov 7th, 2008
Bring your AIR Wildness to MAX!
I am hosting a new type of event at MAX North America this year titled, “AIR Gone Wild“. This is not a session nor is it a traditional Birds of a Feather. I am setting up some high-top tables in the hallway outside of the Birds of a Feather rooms for people to showcase AIR [...]
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