http://www.davidtucker.net web development goodness Sat, 10 May 2008 18:36:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/05/10/greg-wilson-talks-about-fedex-desktop/ I have spent almost two year's at Georgia Tech's Savannah campus, and I have gained a lot of experience in my time there. I turned in my resignation today, because I am becoming a full-time Flex and AIR Consultant. I already have some great projects lined up in ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/05/09/big-changes-leaving-georgia-tech/ 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 ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/05/08/custom-chrome-performance-in-air-101/ Adobe Evangelist Serge Jespers has a great overview of the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 on his site. He walks the user through the process of creating a Flex component from the FLVPlayback component in Flash CS3. I agree with Serge that the component kit has a ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/05/05/great-walkthrough-of-the-flex-component-kit-for-flash-cs3/ Shell scripts are great (of course - this is only going to work if you are on a Linux server). This script should also preserve plug-ins and themes (assuming that you keep data in the standard directories). NOTICE: I cannot guarantee the functionality of this script. It is meant ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/05/02/updating-multiple-wordpress-installations-programatically/ My boss pointed out the little T-Shirt icons next to some of the stories on CNN's site. Apparently, if you see this magical icon next to a headline, you can get a t-shirt with that headline on it. Yes... you can now be the cool guy in town ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/05/02/what-in-the-world-is-cnn-doingt-shirts/ 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 ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/04/18/discussion-of-when-not-to-choose-air/ 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 ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/04/18/air-tip-12-working-with-the-sqlite-database/ 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 ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/04/18/performance-with-sqlite-in-adobe-air/ Amazon just officially announced that they are indeed developing persistent storage for EC2. This new feature provides reliable, persistent storage volumes, for use with Amazon EC2 instances. These volumes exist independently from any Amazon EC2 instances, and will behave like raw, unformatted hard drives or block devices, which may then be ... http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/04/14/amazon-developing-persisent-storage-for-ec2/