The iTunes app store has just approved my first application, and has posted it online. The application is an ActionScript 3 class reference for the iPhone and allows quick and easy access to the ActionScript 3 class reference docs for Flash Player 10, AIR 1.5, and Flex 3.2. You can find more information on the application, view screenshots and log feature requests on the application’s home page. You can install the application directly from the iTunes app store from here.

From the press release: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced plans to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) specification, which is designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe® Flash® Platform technologies. The RTMP specification is expected to be posted on the Adobe Developer Connection in the first half of 2009. You can read the entire press release here.

As you may have noticed from some of my recent posts (here and here), I have been spending some time lately thinking about the ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 transition. I am working on some stuff to make this transition easier (especially for non-developers), but I wanted to make a quick post and get the community’s input. How can we make the transition from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3 easier? I am specifically interested in input from anyone who does not consider themselves hardcore developers.

Darron Schall has just checked in some changes and bug fixes to the JSON support in as3corelib. Among other things, Darron has added a strict mode which allows you to specify how strict of a conformance to the JSON spec you want the library to follow. You can read all of the details over on Darron’s blog. As Darron notes, these are not in the build yet, so if you want to play around with the changes, you have to grab the source.

You can read more about it here, and download it here.

I have just posted a new version of ShortBoard, the Mac OS X application for searching for OS X broadcasts and schedules. This release adds the ability to add a broadcast to iCal so you can be reminded before the broadcast begins. You can find all of the information, as well as download the application from here.

As you have probably heard by now, Adobe announced a number of layoffs yesterday. The layoffs were in response to the global economic downturn, and lower than expected sales of Adobe CS4 (due to the economic situation). You can find the press release for the revised revenue expectations and restructuring here (pdf). In total, about 600 people were let go. Even if you have been through something like this before, it is still a big shock, and can be a difficult time.

Ive gotten a couple of questions lately from people asking what resources I use to learn Cocoa. I figured I would make a quick post, and list them: Cocoa Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) - Aaron Hillegass This is probably the best single resource if you want to just jump in and get started. It covers enough of the basics of Objective-C to get your going. Programming in Objective-C - Stephen Kochan

The title pretty much sums it up. Have you run into any new issues in Adobe AIR 1.5? Specifically, I am looking for anything that may have worked in AIR 1.1, which no longer works in AIR 1.5. For example: SHIFT + SPACE doesn’t work correctly in AIR 1.5, but worked fine in AIR 1.1. (Bug #1932338). Just post the info in the comments (including OS info), and please leave your email address in case the team needs to get in touch with you for more information.

Unlike on Windows, the convention on Mac is that when the main application Window is closed, the application does not exit (although there are exception to this). If you are working on a Document based application, the functionality to open a new window is built in (just open a new document), however for a non-Document based Cocoa application, you have to implement this functionality yourself, which is pretty simple. First, you have to tell the window (NSWindow) to only hide itself when it is closed, and not also release itself.