May 26th, 2010
Fun with AIR on Android – Geolocation
There are a lot of things that make building apps for mobile devices extremely fun and addictive. I’ve especially had fun with the onboard GPS in my Google Nexus One using ActionScript (flash.sensors.Geolocation class). It’s actually very simple. Here’s a trivial example: I’m currently playing around with a mobile app that polls my location every [...]
May 24th, 2010
Get started with AIR on Android before you get an Android device!
Recently, Adobe announced the public beta of AIR on Android. This excitement combined with all of the energy from the recent Google IO conference has a lot of developers wanting to dig right in! If you don’t have access to an Android device today, don’t let that stop you from having some fun. The Android [...]
May 23rd, 2010
My quest to find the best router for Verizon FiOS 35/35 broadband
I’ve been a Verizon FiOS user since the early beta program. A few years ago, I upgraded to 20Mbps/20Mbps service and found that my various LinkSys routers couldn’t keep up with the throughput. I then tried the Linksys WRT610N but it still showed the same problem – every few minutes, my network traffic would simply pause [...]
May 18th, 2010
New IBM ILOG Elixir Data Visualization samples in Tour de Flex
We just posted some new IBM ILOG Elixir 3.0 samples in Tour de Flex under the Data Visualization category. Here are some highlights: Supports Flex SDK 4.0 & Flash Builder 4.0 New: Diagram components (Spark) New: Timeline component (Spark) Improved: Gantt chart components Many new features including tasks item renderers coded in FXG, printing, re-designed [...]
May 13th, 2010
1000+ pages of LiveCycle ES2 content now online via new web version of Tour de LiveCycle
Several months ago, we launched Tour de LiveCycle, a desktop app for navigating 1000+ pages of LiveCycle content. This week, we have taken that same content and made it also available through your web browser. Go to Tour de LiveCycle ES2 Web version at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/tourdelivecycle/web One nice feature is that you can bookmark specific content. [...]
May 6th, 2010
Scaling an Adobe AIR application to fit multiple resolutions and Netbooks
A few months ago, I blogged about a little side project I’m involved in called ChessJam, an online live chess application built with Flex that runs as a desktop application on Adobe AIR. A few weeks ago, we had some users complain that ChessJam was basically unusable on Netbooks. Further investigation confirmed that we had [...]
May 2nd, 2010
List of apps I'm running on my Android phone
I’ve been using an Android phone for several weeks now and often get asked what apps I am using. I decided to create a simple list that I can point people to. Apps I use on my Google Nexus One (running Android 2.1-update1) in no particular order: http://gregsramblings.com/gregsandroidapps/
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