I have just upload a new Mac / Cocoa app I have been working on called ShortBoard. It is a simple app that loads shortwave broadcasts schedules from Prime Time Shortwave, and makes it easy to view, sort and filter them. This is just a first release, and I am planning to continue to play around with it and add features (im using it to learn Cocoa). You can find more information, as well as download the app from here.

We have just posted an updated PDF of the Flash Platform ActionScript 3 RIA API Guide. The new guide includes updated apis for Adobe AIR 1.5, Flex 3.2 and Flash Player 10. You can find more information on the guide, as well as download the PDF from the developer center. You can view some images of the previous guide here. We also have printed versions of the guide. If you are MAX, you can find one in your goodie bag.

We just released Adobe AIR 1.5. While this is a point release, it is a pretty significant update. You can find an overview of new features and updates in this article on the developer center, and in this blog post. What is my favorite feature of AIR 1.5? Bug fixes! In particular URL clicks are now handled correctly (correct browser is opened, and links open in new tab in Firefox as appropriate).

We will have some out each day at the Adobe booth at MAX. fyi, I am going to mail some of these out next week (along with updated AS3 RIA Guides). Ill post more info next week on my twitter account.

If you are working on an AIR app, and will be attending MAX 2008 this week, make sure to stop by the booth to show us your app. We have a station setup called “Developer Spotlight” where you can come and show your app to AIR Team members and evangelists (as well as ask any questions you might have). Anyone who comes by and shows us their app will get either a new ColdFusion or AIR tshirt (both created by eboy).

One of the top feature requests that end users have been asking for from AIR applications (on Mac) is the ability for those applications to leverage the open source Growl notification framework on Mac. However, this was not previously possible due to how applications are required to communicate with Growl. I am really excited to announce that Adobe has been working with the Growl team to add support to Growl for Adobe AIR and Flash applications.

I have just posted a new build and zip file of the ActionScript 3 CoreLib Library (as3corelib). This in an open source library that contains a number of classes and utilities for working with ActionScript 3. This is release .92 and includes a number of bug and performance fixes, as well as some new functionality. One thing to note is that we have added support for some AIR specific classes. Anything in the com.

I am currently working on some code that runs in Adobe AIR where I need to access the File URL file:/ of a file located in the AIR app’s install directory. Normally, you could get the URI, by accessing the url property of the File object which will return a well formed, absolute file:/ URL. However, this doesn’t work for files located in the AIR app’s install directory. var f:File = new File("app:/icon.

I got a ton of feedback in response to my question about the continued use of ActionScript 1 and 2. One thing that consistently came up was that some felt that it was faster to develop within ActionScript 2 than 3. However, it wasn’t clear from the commenters if this was because they already knew ActionScript 2 and were not as comfortable with AS3, or if there were things that were just harder / more tedious in ActionScript 3.

I am working on updating the ActionScript RIA Reference Guide. As part of that, I have to figure add all of the new APIs added to Flash Player 10. Below is a list of such APIs generated and parsed from the APIs docs. I figured I would post it here as a reference, and also a sanity check (if you see anything wrong or missing, please post in the comments).