Archive for August, 2008
« Previous EntriesThanks to M$ for Spreading the Flash Player
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Not sure if this is new information to anyone but I stumbled across this little gem when I did a Google search for “get flash player” today.
I was surprised to see that the 2nd link was a Microsoft URL (go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=6457) which nicely redirects to the Adobe Flash Player download page.
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6 Months of AIR, What have you built?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008This week marks 6 months since Adobe AIR was officially released. So my questions to you are the following. (please reply in comments as I am interested in seeing the communities opinions)
Have you been building applications that are simply for fun or have you developed an AIR application that is in production for a business [...]
ECMAScript 4.0 Gone, My Reaction
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Well, I just got back from a nice weekend reunion with some College friends and I am greeted with the news that ECMAScript 4 has been officially killed in favor of ECMAScript 3.1.
Adobe has included many things in ActionScript 3 (like packages, namespaces, bindings, etc) that were all proposed for ECMAScript 4 and will [...]
URLTestr - AIR Application for MAX 2008 Presentation
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
As promised, here is a preview of the application that will be the basis of my presentation at Adobe MAX 2008 presentation in San Francisco Tuesday November 18 at 1:30pm.
What is URLTestr? It is an AIR application that will monitor websites and trigger alerts when it detects that a URL is offline.
Simply install, add some [...]
Win free AIR Books
Monday, August 11th, 2008If you have been a regular visitor to my blog, you will notice that it changed a bit in the last few days. Hopefully the layout is a little cleaner.
Anyway, if you didn’t notice, I am not a designer. So I would like to offer a free copy of Beginning AIR and a free copy [...]