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. We have also upped the schwag, and in addition to the requisit t-shirt and stickers, will be giving everyone a copy of Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, and the RIA ActionScript Reference Guide.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog.

Well, we are less than a month away from the second leg of the on AIR Tour in Europe. Everyone has finally recovered from the first leg, and we ready to load up the backpack, and hit the trains for the second leg.

I am really excited about this second leg of the tour, as we are going a little further east, and visiting some cities that we don’t get to quite as often as the others. We will be visiting:

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog.

For the first leg of the tour, we had a pretty decent schwag (or swag?) bag, which included some stickers, t-shirts and reports from O’Reilly. We had originally planned to also include the Adobe AIR for JavaScript developers book, and the RIA ActionScript 3 printed reference guide, but neither were ready in time for leg 1.

Well, they are done now, and are being added to the schwag bags for leg 2. So, if you join the tour in Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Milan or Munich, you will get a copy of both the book, and the reference guide (as well as the stickers, t-shirt and everything else).

New site and url is http://feeds.adobe.com. Redirects for old urls at (weblogs.macromedia.com) are not all in place yet.

Christian has all of the info.

I just uploaded a new version of FlashCommand for OS X (.90), which fixes some issues with running with Adobe Flash CS3.

You can grab the latest version from here.

Thanks to rquigley and Patrick Palmer for helping to track down and fix a couple of issues.

Here is a simple django template filter that will format a date according to the DATETIME_FORMAT variable in the settings file.

from django import template
from settings import DATETIME_FORMAT
from django.template.defaultfilters import date

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def default_datetime(value):
    try:
        v = date(value, DATETIME_FORMAT)
    except:
        return value

    return v

Save this in a file named default_date_filters.py and place it in a directory called templatetags in your application directory (along with a file named init.py.

You can then use the filter in a template like so:

I am working on deploying a django app online, and thus need to use the Apache Location directive to point to my django app.

This is pretty straight forward:

<Location "/foo/">
        SetHandler python-program
        PythonPath "[&#x27;/path/to/djangositedir/&#x27;] + sys.path"
        PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
        SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE settings
        PythonDebug On
</Location>

Note: You will normally add / edit this in the httpd.conf file for your apache installation.

Basically, you just map “/foo/” to the python handler. Anytime someone goes to a URL that begins with “"/foo/”" on your site, it will be handled by Python and your django app.

As you have probably seen, Adobe has dropped the licensing restrictions on both the SWF and FLV file formats. Among other things, you can know use the formats to create players that read in the formats.

Check out Ryan Stewart’s weblog for more discussion

We have also put up a site with some information, which includes a FAQ.

You can also download the specs:

• SWF 9
• FLV
• AMF Specification