Apollo coming soon…
14 03 2007For the last few weeks there’s been a lot of excitement around an imminent public beta release of Apollo to Adobe Labs, with ApolloCamp San Francisco happening in just two days there’s no doubt that attendees will get their hands on the runtime and can’t imagine it taking much longer to have it available to the general public.
Its alway difficult to say what is and is not supported (yet) in a beta release but from the looks of it, no matter what Flex developers around the globe (and more than likely the AJAX crowd as well) are getting geared up for some serious late night coding. Better stock up on Red Bull and other forms of caffeine before the stores run out!
I’ve got high hopes for the technology in bridging the gap between web applications and the desktop and giving developers the chance to break out of the confines of the browser. One important factor is that there is nothing really new to learn, you’ll leverage Flex, HTML and PDF and get API’s to deal with Apollo specific functionality.
*Bring it on Adobe!*
And here I am, hoping that they wait until the 22nd, as I’ll be out of the country and off the web all next week!
ah yes, thats a shame Keith — make sure you don’t spend too much time in an internet cafe downloading Apollo to a USB stick and take the opportunity to see rural Japan.
Have a safe trip and good luck on the long flight with the little one!
The first release on labs is actually going to be an Alpha release. It’s going to be geared towards Flex developers; a lot of the HTML features and documentation will not be present. Also, there will not be PDF support in the first Alpha release.
Interesting Ryan, was that announced somewhere? Have found very little information about the upcoming public release on labs.
Mike Chambers posted about it a couple weeks ago. Here’s the link:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2007/02/quick_apollo_up.html
Thanks for that, completely missed Mike’s post.
No problem man. I can’t wait to try it out for myself.