I have been working on a JavaScript AIR app for the past week or so while on the on AIR Tour in Europe, and ran into the need to Base64 encode some data. I knew that there were some JavaScript libraries that did this, and I could also create a SWF library that used the Flex Base64Encoder class. However, I didn’t like either of these solutions as I was concerned about performance with using a JavaScript implementation, and didn’t want to hassle with creating a SWF library to link into JavaScript.

I am in Europe right now for leg 2 of the on AIR Tour in Europe. We have been having a great time, and a lot of fun at the events. I have posted a review of week 3 over on the on AIR Tour blog, which you can read here.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog. Just a couple of notes for today’s on AIR Tour in Event in Prague. The entrance for the event is through the brewery restaurant, which is just to the left of the main entrance. Dion Almaer from Google has joined the tour and will be talking about Google App Engine and Adobe AIR. Finally, at the break before the last session (Lee Brimelow’s) they brewery is going to open up the taps, and we will have an extended beer break.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog. We have just wrapped up week three of the on AIR Tour in Europe, and are currently resting / recuperating in Prague. The week was a huge success and we had great turnouts at all of the events (Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw). As usual, the highlight was meeting all of the developers in each city. Here is a quick overview of the week. Stockholm We started the second leg of the tour in Stockholm, with most of us arriving on Saturday.

I am in Stockholm today for the on AIR Tour in Europe, and one of the new items of schwag we have is a printed copy of the Adobe RIA AS3 reference guide. View video on YouTube We will be giving these out at all of the on AIR Tour Events in Europe.

Just a quick note, but it looks like a bug in Firefox 3 (soon to be released) will break some existing Flash content. Specifically, it looks like it breaks onKeyUp events in Flash. You can find more info, and view the bug here. Unfortunately, it does not look like they will fix this for the 3.0 release, but may fix it in the first 3.0 update. UPDATE : Mozilla decided to fix the issue (woot!

Since the first leg of the European on AIR Tour wrapped up, I have had some time to take some time and research / play around with some new technologies. In particular, I have been looking into the HTML 5 draft spec, as well as some of the work that Google has been doing with Google Gears. One thing I have been watching closely around the HTML 5 draft is the implementation of the VIDEO element / tag.

Just a quick note, but I have updated my Wowhead launcher to work with Adobe AIR 1.0. This is a simple application that allows you to quickly launch searches into wowhead.com (for World of Warcraft). You can find more information, as well as grab the air file from the Google Code project page.

Lots of new toys to play with. You can find all of the information on labs.

Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan are the cities I will be stopping in as part of the second leg of the European on AIR Tour. I will be MCing the event, and giving a session on building your first AIR application with Flex. The first leg was completely sold out, and the second leg is getting close. We have a full day of sessions which cover everything you need to know to get started developing AIR applications using Flex, Flash or JavaScript.