Programming

Office 2008 Coming January 2008

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

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

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 Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications to create a more responsive RIA. This is a big step forward...

The Code Trip

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

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...