Tour de Flex has been an absolute hit since we released it back at MAX in San Francisco. The AIR based app downloaded numbers are staggering. But, some have wanted a Web version, and so, here it is , nearly 200 running Flex examples complete with code for your viewing and learning pleasure.
Coming out of MIX last week, The Register's Tim Anderson has posted a story on how Flash is helping to define Silverlight features and direction, and he focuses specifically on comparing Adobe AIR to Silverlight 3 running outside of the browser. This one is an interesting read.
Our partners at HD Interactive have posted a report on the Tampa usergroup meeting that several of us attended a couple of weeks ago.
Adobe AIR applications can be made to be self-updatable. Several months ago, fellow evangelist Mihai Corlan wrote an excellent getting-started article for the Adobe Developer Center entitled Using the Adobe AIR update framework which explains the basics of building updatable AIR apps, be they built...
The Adobe AIR team has announced that an update to the Aptana Studio plug-in for AIR development is now available. The update includes some pretty cool features, including an integrated JavaScript debugger, and tools for generating application security badges. An article on the debugger , complete...
This evening I presented a sneak peak at the next ColdFusion to a joint session of the Tampa Flash, Flex and AIR Developers Group and the Tampa ColdFusion User Group . The really cool thing about this event was that 2/3 of the audience were not ColdFusion users, and several commented that now they...
The Adobe AIR team has announced the release of AIR 1.5.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release fixes bugs and adds minimal new functionality. You do not need to recompile your application to take advantage of the 1.5.1 improvements. However, if you want to take advantage of the 2 new API...
Fast and Furious is due in theaters April 3rd, 2009, and promises lots more of the high speed car scenes that made the original such fun, this time across Los Angeles and through the Mexican desert. But, you don't have to wait, you can download the Fast & Furious GPS Widget , powered by Adobe...
SitePen has announced Queued , a Dojo based AIR app for managing your Netflix queue. The app is pretty cool, there is a YouTube screencast posted, and source code is available, too. Pretty cool!
eWeek (print edition) is running a story (which I can't find online, although I did find a related video post) on JavaFX, and has a supporting story (which I also can't find online) entitled RIA 1.1. It contains an O'Reilly based graph showing the results when they "asked 200 developers what RIA...