This is a really nice demonstration / working app from Adobe. The application is built using Adobe Flex 2 and runs in Adobe AIR. The application has been built to showcase Flex 2’s visual components and the interactivity a Flex application can provide.
The application allows small groups to share digital content, exchange ideas, centralise information and […]
The Adobe AIR cross platform runtime is now available for Linux and is available for download from Adobe Labs. This is quite a significant step towards the Adobe AIR runtime working across all three major platforms (Windows, MAC and Linux) and will strengthen the case for the building or rich desktop based apps within Adobe AIR […]
Anybody who is seriously looking at developing Adobe AIR applications should attend this. The Adobe OnAir tour comes to London on 9th April 2008.
The agenda for the London event is online and will be held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SD.
They also have some really nice Adobe OnAir Desktop Wallpapers available for download.
The event is […]
Found a nice simple RSS reader example at Jonathan Fisher’s blog (northcubed). It is built using Flex Builder 3 and runs in the Adobe AIR runtime on the user’s desktop. Chromeless windows are supported and full source code is available to view or download.
This is the look and logo for Adobe Air as discovered over at Mike Chambers blog - introducing the Adobe Air Logo. I personally think the logo is great. Clean, simple and easy to recognise.Mike says “I am not going to go into a detailed analysis of what the logo represents, but I do want to […]
I stumbled across this very interesting post regarding google analytics over at Dan Mackey’s blog. He has found an Adobe AIR application that hooks into Google Analytics yet acts like a desktop app. The app is still in BETA but looks really nice. Download it over at aboutnico.be
I have a new machine at home running Windows Vista and have been racking my brains trying to get my files transferred and my desktop set with all my DEV and research work. I have installed Eclipse Europa (3.3) and was ready to install Flex Builder 2 as a plugin.
With Europa successfully installed, I fired […]
I discovered a very handy colour themes tool online called Adobe Kuler. It allows you to submit colour themes via RSS and for you to explore and share colour themes online. Never again will you experience designers block when trying to match up your colour palette again!!There is an AIR version to download and also an […]
I have been recently learning and using Flex 2. Coming from a ColdFusion background (and being self taught!!), I first found it very hard to get used to the strict typing and syntax that is used to make up a Flex App.
Flex Apps are composed of MXML and Actionscript 3 class files. The MXML is […]
This is a very handy site to visit for more information on a very popular Adobe Flex framework called “Cairngorm”.
If you seriously want to develop wide scale (and importantly maintainable!!) applications, then you definitely need to check this site out. There is some excellent learning material and superb diagrams.
Visit the Cairngorm Docs site and start […]