Programming

Office 2008 Coming January 2008

December 21, 2007

It seems like 2008 is going to be a good year for software. Adobe AIR, MDM Zinc and now Office 08 for Mac. In fact Office is the only reason I have had to stick by Parallels for the writing of those very important documents...

Building a Todo App using AIR

by coderman

Adobe AIR, Snitter

December 18, 2007

Jonathan Snook (creator of Snitter, an Adobe AIR based Twitter client) has written an in depth guide to building a To-do application using Adobe AIR. The article not only ends up becoming a real application, but Jon includes relevant information about working with AIR throughout...

Adobe releases Free Data Services

by coderman

Adobe, Adobe AIR, AMF, Flex, Remoting

December 13, 2007

Adobe has released BlazeDS which is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology. It will enable developers to easily connect to server distributed data and push data to AdobeÂ® Flexâ„¢ and Adobe AIRâ„¢ applications to create a more responsive RIA. This is a big step forward...

The Code Trip

by coderman

Adobe AIR, Silverlight

November 23, 2007

TheCodeTrip is an upcoming Microsoft tour to promote and give developers a chance to learn about Silverlight. The touring idea may be fresh in your brain from the previous Adobe AIR Tour earlier this year. At the moment TheCodeTrip.com is looking for ideas, so if you have...

Review: FDT 3 for Eclipse

by coderman

Actionscript, Eclipse, FDT, Reviews

November 20, 2007

I have published a review on FDT 3 for Eclipse. This application is a wonderful ActionScript editor that when paired with the Flash code library makes it very painless to develop Flash applications. The latest release has support for ActionScript 2 and 3 which is great...

3D Browser with AIR and Papervision3D

by coderman

Actionscript, Adobe AIR, Papervision3D

November 8, 2007

Lee Brimlow has developed a fully interactive 3D browser using Adobe AIR and Papervision3D. The app surprisingly runs very smooth on my Mac and overall is very cool. I hope to get some free time soon to work with PV3D but for now I just look...