It's early Tuesday morning in Milan. MAX Europe started yesterday with a keynote by Michele Turner and Mark Anders. The content was similar to the U.S. keynote, but with local partners and examples highlighted. The Fiat AIR app in particular was a thing of beauty, and the crowd loved the Cocomo...
I just arrived in Wroclaw , 4th largest city in Poland, home to about 650,000, and the location for RIA Day 2008 today. I am presenting an opening session as well as a session on data services. Other sessions are covering Flash, Flex, AIR, and ColdFusion. We're still a couple of hours from start...
Popular Science has posted it's Best Of What's New 2008 , and has given an award in the Computing category to Adobe AIR .
This morning I presented a 3 hour MegaLab session at MAX , 180 minutes of LCDS, CF, Flex, and AIR. And things did not go as smoothly as I'd have liked. The 400MB ZIP file that we prepared for attendees worked fine on Windows, but would not work on Mac machines. Apparently, when the ZIP file was...
As announced in the MAX keynote this morning, Alchemy is a project that allows users to compile C and C++ code to run on the ActionScript Virtual Machine. With Alchemy, developers can now reuse hundreds of millions of lines of existing open source C and C++ client or server-side code on the Flash...
Tour de Flex is an AIR based desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR and data integration, as well as a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more. Tour de Flex was announced this morning at MAX, and platform...
Adobe and SitePen have teamed up to create Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR to make it easier to create rich desktop apps using the Dojo Toolkit and Adobe AIR. More info posted on the SitePen blog.
Greg Wilson has announced that he is hosting "AIR Gone Wild" at MAX in San Francisco, an opportunity for individuals to showcase just how far they've pushed AIR.
At the MAX sneaks session last year we showed you an early (make that very early) prototype of what ColdFusion AIR integration could look like. Over the past year we've made significant progress on ColdFusion AIR integration, especially as part of Centaur planning. Rakshith is a member of the...
CareerOverview.com has posted a list of 100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps For Productivity . Thanks to Kelly Sonora for sending me the link.