Archive for December, 2007

by mkeefe on Dec 18th, 2007

Building a Todo App using AIR

Jonathan Snook (creator of Snitter, an Adobe AIR based Twitter client) has written an in depth guide to building a To-do application using Adobe AIR. The article not only ends up becoming a real application, but Jon includes relevant information about working with AIR throughout the article.

For those that don’t know, Adobe AIR is a new technology from Adobe that allows you to develop web-style applications for the desktop, leveraging the power of HTML, Flash and even PDF. Adobe recently released a new version of the public beta (B3) last week which really starts to paint a picture of how awesome AIR 1.0 is going to be.

You may remember me posting some smaller AIR topics, as well as a learning application that I developed alongside Organi Studios earlier this year.

Be sure to check out the article over at 24 ways, and while your there, look at the other great articles.

by mkeefe on Dec 13th, 2007

Adobe releases Free Data Services

Adobe has released BlazeDS which is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology.

It will enable developers to easily connect to server distributed data and push data to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications to create a more responsive RIA.

This is a big step forward in the world of AMF, which on that note, Adobe has also published the AMF3 spec.

It will be interesting to see how these new announcements affect existing tools, such as AMFPHP.

by mkeefe on Dec 13th, 2007

Adobe AIR Public Beta 3 Released

Adobe has released AIR Public Beta 3

Beta 3 for Mac OS X | Windows

From those who don’t know:

Adobe® AIR™ is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

I will post more once I install it and give it a good overview.

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