Archive for the ‘Adobe AIR’ Category
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
In the last couple of days, I decided to go through my notes, collect all the presentation files (powerpoints, pdfs and zips) and find blogs that reference the keynotes. Essentially I wanted to reflect and review "the Happening" that was Adobe Max 2008, my first Max.
For the most part I ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The presentation on Adobe AIR in Detroit (technically in Canton, MI) went very well. Thanks to Deborah for helping to organize the event for Refresh Detroit and for bringing together her group and the Detroit Area Adobe User Group for the event. For those in attendance I've just posted the ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Occasionally I have the sense that I might be doing something as a workaround that is completely unnecessary, as though I'm jumping through hoops, listening for an exact sequence of one hundred events, and then squinting my eyes and tilting the monitor just right in order to assign text to ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
If you're creating a custom AIR badge for a seamless install then you'll need to load the air.swf files from the Adobe Website (http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/browserapi/air.swf) and call methods on the .swf once it has loaded. This is clunky for a few reasons:
1. Loading the .swf in order to call methods requires ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I'm writing a new Adobe AIR book along with Sam Ahn. It's going to be specifically for Flash and Flex developers who want to use AIR to build desktop applications. We're working with Manning, which is a publisher I've never worked with before. I think they've published high quality titles, ...
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