Gregs Ramblings | Monthly Archive

Jun 30th, 2010

Debating HTML 5 and Flash? Get educated first!

You’ve probably heard a lot of noise in the press, blogs, twitter, etc. about HTML 5. You’ve probably also heard how its new video and animation capabilities combined with other cool HTML 5 features is going to be the death of Flash, right? As a technical evangelist for Adobe, I obviously know a lot about [...]

Jun 24th, 2010

Tour de ColdFusion Beta Launched!

We have FINALLY launched Tour de ColdFusion! We are still filling in a few gaps and testing, so we consider it a beta, but it’s ready for you to dive in. Tour de ColdFusion is a desktop application built on Adobe AIR that provides quick access to hundreds of ColdFusion code samples. Live running [...]

Jun 18th, 2010

Tour de Flex 2.0 – AIR and Flex Component and API Explorer Launched!

We just posted Tour de Flex 2.0. If you already have a previous version of Tour de Flex, it should auto-update to 2.0. This latest version has several bug fixes and now requires AIR 2.0 to support many new AIR 2.0 samples. Go grab it and check out the new samples in the [...]

Jun 18th, 2010

Adobe AIR – common auto-update issues when upgrading your app to AIR 2.0

Earlier this week, I was updating an AIR app originally built on AIR 1.1 to AIR 2.0. I changed my namespace to 2.0 (so I could take advantage of some new AIR 2.0 specific APIs), built my .airi file, signed it and tried to install it. I expected it to prompt me to upgrade [...]

Jun 15th, 2010

HTML 5 and Flash – A reality check

If you are reading this, you are probably a fairly technical person that understands the complexities of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, and other web technologies. Like me, you probably have more than one web browser installed on your systems and enjoy the very latest technology every day. I bet you have already viewed the latest [...]

Jun 10th, 2010

Adobe AIR 2.0 – why you want to upgrade now!

If you’ve been following my blog for long, you know that I LOVE Adobe AIR. My largest AIR project is ChessJam (FB), an online Chess application built with Flex that has users from over 155 countries playing over 2500 games of Chess every day. You can read about all of the incredible new features of [...]

Jun 4th, 2010

Flexcious datagrid samples added to Tour de Flex

We just added samples from Flexicious to the “Other Components” section of Tour de Flex. If your application requires a datagrid, this is a must-see. From the Flexicious website: The Flexicious Flex DataGrid/Advanced DataGrid controls are extensions of the mx.controls.DataGrid and mx.controls.AdvancedDataGrid, with UI to provide filter, paging, sorting, Select All Checkbox, and footer operations. [...]