Just a quick note, but I have been hearing that there is some confusion over the European User Group tour that Lee Brimelow and I are doing in early November. This is a user group tour, and is not a European version of the on AIR tour.
That doesn’t mean we are not doing a full on AIR tour in Europe, but we haven’t announced anything yet (although you can imagine the European User Group tour would be a good opportunity to make such an announcement).
ars technica has an interview up with Ed Finkler, the developer behind the AIR based Spaz Twitter client (which was one of the winners of the AIR Developer Derby).
The interview is a good read and why Ed (an HTML / PHP developer) choose AIR, and what his experience was like working with the runtime. It also gives a good explanation of some of the new HTML / JavaScript security changes that were implimented in Beta 2.
Dr Dobb’s Journal has posted an article on Adobe AIR in this months (November 2007) issue. It is written by Oliver Goldman, who is one of the primary engineers on the AIR team, and provides a good overview of what AIR is, and the problems that it tries to solve.
You can read the entire article online here.
I just got an email from Yasuhiro Tanaka letting me know that the crew over at anthill.jp (they do some amazing work) has posted a Japanese translation of the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide.
You can find the entire translated text here.
You can download the english version of the book here.
Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog.
The title pretty much says it all. We just wrapped up North America, where should we go next?
Here is a quick tip, that I got from Tom Lane on the Flex Builder team. If you do a lot of AIR development, then you have probably noticed that the default application descriptor file in Flex Builder 3 Beta 2, is heavily commented. While this makes it easy to learn the new tags, it can be a little overwhelming, and make it difficult to find the actual tags you need.
Luckily, there is an easy way to edit the default template for the file. Note, this is not supported and subject to change in the future.
One of the things that we announced in this morning’s day 2 keynote at MAX is a new shared document service called Adobe Share.
I have uploaded the PDF of the Adobe AIR Pocket Guide for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide to the Adobe Share service, and have embedded the book below.
Update : Unfortunately, the file is no longer available.
You can also download the PDF from here.
Originally posted on onair.adobe.com blog.
Tonight is the last stop of the North American leg of the on AIR Bus tour. We rolled into Chicago last night and will be holding an AIR Camp tonight at the MCA Warehouse. If you are in town for Adobe MAX, then come check out the events. We have tweaked the schedule a little so we have a little more time at the end for networking, beer and video games.
