Entries Tagged as ‘Adobe Air’

April 8, 2008

Snippley - A Demonstration AIR Application

The second AIR application we’ll be looking at this week is Snippley created by .
I’ve chosen this as it’s aimed at developers in two senses. First of all, Snippley is used for storing and organising code snippets and secondly the source code is available which makes it an excellent candidate for deconstructing and learning more [...]

April 7, 2008

Adobe AIR on Tour Brussels Buzz

My vision is blurred having watched people present thousands of lines of JavaScript at the Adobe AIR on Tour in Brussels today. Too much code, not enough strategic overview for me but an enjoyable day nonetheless.
The top highlights were:
1. the venue. Super cool video walls.
2. Dion Almaer of Google/Ajaxian giving a(n unannounced) strategic overview of [...]

April 7, 2008

Shifd

Shifd.com (pronounced Shift) is a very simple, very useful web application that arose out of a 24 hour coding competition and which is going to be very successful.
It’s a web application, it’s a browser toolbar plugin, it’s a mobile application and, via AIR, it’s a desktop app as well. Originally it was hooked up to [...]

April 6, 2008

Adobe Air Week - Again

I’m going to be running another Adobe AIR week on the the blog this week.
Since AIR came out of Beta, some really great apps have emerged and some of the early applications have matured. The Alpha version for Linux is out offering true cross platform applications and version 1.1 is in the pipeline.
Each day I’ll [...]

March 26, 2008

Brussels on AIR Tour - 7 April

Anyone out there going to the Brussels meeting of the Adobe on AIR Tour on the 7th of April?
It’s sold out now but they sometimes have a reserve list.
onair.adobe.com/schedule/cities/brussels.php
Drop your name into the comments and I’ll look out for you.

March 1, 2008

What Is Adobe AIR? Redux

Back in January I wrote a series of articles about Adobe AIR, which at the time was still in Beta. Now that Adobe AIR has been officially released as version 1.0 I though I’d have another go a explaining what AIR actually is by translating Adobe’s definition into plain English.
You can read the original article [...]