Archive for the ‘AIR’ Category

Proof-Of-Concept: A Simple UI for Running Ant Targets Built with Adobe AIR 2.0

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

I've really been getting into ApacheĀ Ant lately. I really enjoy using it to manage various build processes when working on Flash projects. So when I found out that AIR 2.0 can invoke a native process I immediately thought that it'd be cool to learn how to use that capability to ...

Get yourself to NYC for Flash and the City

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Elad Elrom last night. He's one of the organizers of the upcoming Flash and the City conference here in NYC. I highly recommend attending this conference for the following reasons: 1. Its in F*ckin' New York City! I know NYC isn't for everyone but ...

Open Source Media Framework (Sprint 8) Bug in NetStreamPlayTrait and NetStreamTimeTrait?

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Over the last two months or so I've been keeping my eyes on Adobe's Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) project. I started fiddling around with Sprint 7, seeing if I could build a progressive video player component on top of it. My first impression was that the project was still ...

New Flash Community Developments: Robotlegs and Signals

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I've come to realize that I'm always a bit hesitant to change. I was late to get a cell phone, late to join Facebook, late to join Twitter, and often late to look into developments within the Flash community. Lately I've been trying to change how often I tune into ...

AIR:CMR – Free Books? Academia?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

I just received a couple copies of the Chinese translation of Adobe AIR -Create Modify Reuse. It's pretty exciting to see your book translated into other languages, even if you can't read them. I'd like to donate them to a High School or College. Would anyone in academia like a ...

AIR Create-Modify-Reuse

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Back on the 25th of April, I posted a little something about us (Matt & me ... and Toddly Anderson) releasing a certain book entitled Adobe AIR, Create-Modify-Reuse, published by Wiley & Sons. Well, at that time, MXNA was down, so only a few regular viewers saw it. So I figured ...