AIR Archive

  • TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source

    TWiT Live Desktop 2.2 goes open source

    It took me a long time to finally get round to it, but have updated the TWiT Live Desktop AIR application and released it as version 2.2. I’ve also gone ahead and made it open source under an MIT license, so feel free to check...

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  • Cool Stuff I Didn't Make

    Cool Stuff I Didn’t Make

    Flash on the Beach is always one of the absolute conference highlights of the year, and believe it or not its only 5 weeks away — can’t wait to be in Brighton again! This year I’ll be talking about cool stuff I didn’t make, and...

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  • HTML 5 for the Flash Player

    Making the case for HTML5 support in the Flash Player

    Earlier this week I got inspired seeing this presentation on HTML5. I’m a strong advocate of moving towards this standard and with browsers increasingly supporting it, makes it very attractive to start to learn and implement where possible. Contrary to what I’m seeing various tech...

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  • Flash across devices

    Flash across screens and devices

    Exciting times if you’re working with Flash Platform technologies, the idea of deploying the same codebase to multiple screens is really taking shape and I for one couldn’t be happier. AIR already allowed us to go cross platform with desktop apps (Windows, Mac and Linux),...

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  • AIR 2 beta 2 – new printing features

    AIR 2 beta 2 – new printing features

    In case you missed it — AIR 2 beta 2 is now available on labs.adobe.com and among a bunch of other things there are now some really cool additional printing features that give you a lot more control than what we used to have. Be...

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  • Why you should attend Flash and the City

    Why you should attend Flash and the City

    There’s another new conference coming this year and thats always exciting, but Flash and the City promises to be different. Not only is this the first major Flash conference in NYC in quite a while, its going to be an amazing opportunity to network and...

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  • SQLite in Adobe AIR – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

    SQLite in Adobe AIR – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

    My second talk at the Adobe DevSummit Chennai was a 15 minute lightning talk on using SQLite in Adobe AIR. This is probably the fastest I’ve ever covered the topic but should still give you a good idea of what local database functionality is available...

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  • RIA meets Desktop – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

    RIA meets Desktop – Adobe DevSummit Chennai

    Earlier this week I headed to the Adobe DevSummit event in Chennai and was pleasantly surprised of how vibrant the community here is. No less than 600 people turned up and the rooms were absolutely packed. We had some great talks and hands-on sessions by...

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  • Looking back at The ActionScript Conference 2009

    Looking back at The ActionScript Conference 2009

    I was very happy to be invited to speak again at this second edition of The ActionScript Conference in Singapore. This year they even made it a two day event at an amazing venue overlooking Marina Bay. I have some video recorded that I’ll upload...

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  • Adobe AIR SQLite: an optimization conversation – Paul Robertson

    Adobe AIR SQLite: an optimization conversation – Paul Robertson

    I came across this great video by Paul Robertson, Senior ActionScript Developer/Writer at Adobe, about local database optimization with Adobe AIR. There’s some really useful information in his presentation so definitely worth watching!   

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