Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Greg Wilson of Adobe just blogged about the new Fedex Desktop application. He makes some great points and highlights some of the uses of AIR within the application. Check it out below:
Here Comes the Real AIR Apps - Greg Wilson
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I had an AIR application that I was developing for a client around the time AIR 1.0 was released. This was a custom chrome application. When I profiled and tested the application I was less than impressed with the processor utilization. Actually, I was less than impressed with the processor utilization of [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
This morning, I checked out the new Flickr Code site. As a part of this site was a blog post on how one of the developers at Yahoo redeveloped the Flickr Uploader (actually I think he is still redeveloping). His platform of choice to provide a consistent cross-platform application was XULRunner. He [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
The SQLite database inside of AIR provides a great deal of functionality that can be used to create a great many different types of applications. In this article, I have placed links to the tutorials I have been writing over at InsideRIA.com on how to use this functionality (I am about halfway through this [...]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I recently had the opportunity to develop a small tutorial application that ran queries on a good sized dataset (not huge - but 10,000 rows). I hadn’t yet had the opportunity to test AIR’s SQLite database functionality, and I must say that I was pleased. The application (which was a tutorial on strongly [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Browser API that has been covered in AIR Tip 5 and AIR Tip 6 allows you not only to launch an AIR application from the browser, but also from another AIR application.
This tutorial is current for AIR 1.0
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I just completed a new article, Adobe AIR and Dreamweaver for JavaScript developers on the Adobe AIR Developer Center. It gives a good look at developing AJAX AIR application with Dreamweaver CS3. This includes: debugging your applications, updating your applications, security in AIR, and configuring Dreamweaver for AIR.
Adobe AIR and Dreamweaver for JavaScript [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
AIR Tip 10: This tip will show you how to disable the AIR auto-update for an application where you do not want the AIR update popup to be displayed.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
I just posted my slides and code samples from 360Flex. My session was entitled ‘Cairngorm for Adobe AIR Applications’. This session was a brief introduction to existing tools for Cairngorm that you to interact with core AIR API calls as services in Cairngorm.
You can view them on the Presentations page.
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Lee Brimelow just released his slides from FITC on AIR. These slides are a great resource and provide excellent code examples. You can check out his post here.
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