Feb 27th, 2008
Interested in AIR Security?
As with any new technology, a lot of speculation is already spreading about the security aspects of AIR applications. When taking a quick first glance at AIR, you see “connected app” and “local file access” and immediately you see red flags, right? Especially if you are writing enterprise apps! Here are a couple of links [...]
Feb 25th, 2008
AIR on Linux – Testers Wanted
Ok, it’s been nearly 24 hours since AIR 1.0 launched but now it’s time to get back to work on completing the vision of one app running on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. We are looking for testers for the upcoming AIR for Linux. James Ward has listed the details of what’s needed at http://www.jamesward.org/wordpress/2008/02/20/adobe-air-on-linux-pre-beta-testers-needed/ [...]
Feb 25th, 2008
AIR 1.0, Flex 3.0 and more announced today…
Today, AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0 have officially launched. News coverage is popping up every few minutes – go to Google News and start reading! Companies like eBay, Nasdaq, AOL and the New York Times already have apps up and running. New York Times article on AIR My previous articles on AIR NEW AIR Home [...]
Jan 12th, 2008
Buzzword – Online Wordprocessing – Another great RIA!
Ok, there are thousands of rich internet applications (RIAs) out there that I could write about but I’m trying to be very selective in order to provide a good sampling of different uses of RIAs and their advantages. Being pretty is one thing, but being incredibly functional is what makes RIAs exciting. For example, check [...]
Jan 11th, 2008
Adobe Flex and AIR Pre-release tour coming to a city near you!
Adobe Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR product and evangelism teams are traveling to select cities to show off the great new features for this exciting launch. Check the listings at http://flex.org/tour/ to hook up with the local user group in the city [...]
Jan 11th, 2008
Yourminis.com – Another Cool Flex app that I use daily
Several months ago, a friend/co-worker suggested that I take a look at Yourminis.com as a possible RSS reader. I had tried several but didn’t really find anything I liked. I’ve used Yourminis ever since. Yourminis is much more than an RSS reader – it is a Widget Server or as some would say, a “webtop“. [...]
Jan 4th, 2008
Intelligent Enterprise: Adobe one of the 12 companies that will matter the most to the intelligent enterprise in 2008!
Excerpt - “Adobe is the key company to watch in the race toward mastery of RIA/Web 2.0 development. Having acquired Macromedia and assimilated its technologies, Adobe has a strongly positioned client (Flash) on millions of computers, a corps of evolving development tools (Flex, AIR, ColdFusion) and an apparent willingness to embrace open-source approaches.” For me [...]
Nov 14th, 2007
The next cool thing from Adobe…
I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) during the past few weeks and am very excited about what I’m seeing. It think this is going to create some unique opportunities for Adobe. If you are interested in a new kind of application, take a look. You can download the player and several [...]
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