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.

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.

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.

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

Well, as you probably know, MXNA (a feed aggregator for Adobe related communities and technologies) has had some stability issues for some time, and has recently been down for the past couple of days. Update : MXNA is back up at its new url : http://feeds.adobe.com I wanted to make a quick post giving an update on what is going on, and what we are doing to fix it. First, what is going on?

I have been getting a bunch of email that the links to my FlashCommand for OS X download was no longer working. FlashComamnd is a command line tool written in python, that allows you to launch Flash authoring to compile FLAs. Well, I found the files, and have re-uploaded them. You can find all of the information, including how to use and download the tool from here. I have not tested this with Flash CS3, so if it doesn’t work, let me know on the FlashCommand page.

Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog. Peter Elst has posted his slides and source for his on AIR Tour session on SQLite and Adobe AIR. You can grab all of the slides from Peter’s website here. You can also view a video of Peter’s session on the on AIR Tour Video blog. We will be posting more session slides over the next couple of days. If you missed the first leg of the on AIR Tour in Europe, you still have time to sign up for the second leg.