Just a quick note, but I updated turl last night. turl is a command line tool for Mac OS X that uses online services to shorten urls. There are a couple of minor changes, but the main new feature is that I added support for bit.ly. Here are the changes: Added support for bit.ly Made bit.ly service default (urltea appears to be down / gone) Add some error checking to make sure a URL is returned You can download turl, and the source from here.

One of the issue mentioned in our the Adobe AIR 1.1 release notes is an issue where Firefox is not used as the default web browser on Vista. From the technote: On Windows Vista, web pages opened from AIR applications (this is done by calling the navigateToURL() method) may not open the default browser; it always opens Internet Explorer. To workaround this problem, go to Start > Default Programs > Set Program Access and Computer Defaults.

One of the ActionScript 3 libraries that I use in just about every project I work on is the as3corelib library. This is an ActionScript 3 library that contains a lot of useful APIs for working with AS3. I am planning to do some more work the library this week. I spent the morning scrubbing and fixing some bugs, and plan to fix more issues, as well as generate new docs and a new SWC.

Just a quick note, but we have posted the Adobe AIR 1.1 Release Notes in HTML. Previously they were only available via PDF. There is a lot of useful and important information in the release notes about developing in AIR 1.1, so make sure to check them out.

I have posted chapter 2 of the Adobe AIR for Flex Developers Pocketguide on tostring.org. The chapter is titled Getting Started with Adobe AIR Development and covers (from the chapter): Installing Adobe AIR Configuring the Flex SDK and command-line tools Creating your first AIR application with the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3 Testing AIR applications Signing, packaging, and deploying AIR applications This is just a draft chapter (.85) and I am looking for any comments, input, questions or suggestions on the chapter.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog. The Stockholm, Berlin and Warsaw stops of the on AIR Tour in Europe are now sold out and registration is closed. We still have some seats left for Prague, Munich and Milan, although Munich and Milan are also getting close to being sold out, so if you are thinking of attending, make sure to register (and don’t forget to check out the updated tour goodies we will be giving away).

Prior to the release of Adobe AIR 1.0, I worked on two books about Adobe AIR (then know by its code name of “Apollo”). The books, “Adobe Integrated Runtime for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide” and “Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocketguide” provided an introduction to Adobe AIR, and all of the information a developer would need to get over the hump of developing for Adobe AIR. In addition to being published by O’Reilly, we released both books online under a Creative Commons license.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog. Ethan Malasky has posted his slides for his talk on developing secure AIR applications. You can grab them from his website. We have also posted a video of Ethan’s session from the Warsaw event on the tour video blog. You can view the video here.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog. Serge Jesper’s has made a couple of blog posts about his session on Deploying, Signing and Updating AIR applications from the on AIR Tour in Europe. Updating AIR Applications Deploying AIR Applications Signing AIR Applications The video of Serge’s session should be on the tour video blog in the next couple of days.

View the video here.