Archive for June, 2008
« Previous EntriesMAX 2008 site is now Live!
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The new MAX 2008 North America website has officially launched. It is a sweet site with tons of flash interactivity. Check it out and get registered today for what should be an awesome event.
P.S. If you dig into the scheduler a bit you will see that I have been asked to return as a speaker [...]
toString.org
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Mike Chambers has launched a new site called toString.org. This site is a community effort to translate books to additional languages.
As I know from looking over my analytics, I have a large international audience. So, I am posting this with the hope that you will take the initiative to translate one of Mike Chambers AIR [...]
Attention all RIA Book Authors
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008As some of you may know, I have been the community manager for the InsideRIA site since its launch last year. I would like to try something new for InsideRIA and that is publishing some snippets of information that is part of your book during the writing process. Think of it like “here is what [...]
Top 10 AIR apps worth Installing
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Lifehacker has put together a top 10 list of Adobe AIR applications worth installing. Their list includes:
Pandora
ebay Desktop
snackr
DiggTop
Doomi
Twhirl
Klok
DestroyFlickr
ReadAIR
Google Analytics Suite
To see their full reviews of each of these applications, you can read the full article here.
Flex 3 HistoryManager Exploit?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008I was just reading this article this morning about an exploit in the historyFrame.html file of the Flex 3.01 SDK.
The article states that Flex 3.01 SDK contains this vulnerability and that the issue was fixed with the Flex 3.02 build. I downloaded build 3.0.2.2095 dated June 17, 2008 and compared the historyFrame.html and history.js files [...]