Dao-Ext is a tool that auto-generates ActionScript VOs and DAOs starting from a local SQLite databse and that will make your life easier when developing Adobe AIR Applications which use local persistent data.
Merapi is an interesting project that wants to create a bridge between Air and Java on the desktop, something that already exists between Flex and Java on the web thanks to BlazeDS/LCDS and other similar projects. It's made up of...
Adobe AIR application gives you the ability to use socket connections for push-model connectivity. For a this application is crucial to check and monitor the the connection against TCP/IP socket endpoints. The AIR service monitor framework can be used for this purposes. In JavaScript, the operations to check and monitor the connection against TCP/IP socket endpoints use the SocketMonitor that is a subclass of the ServiceMonitor class.
These days I'm working on the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook creating the examples for the chapter on the HTMLLoader class. The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The method is part of the public methods of the HTMLLoader class: loadString(). It accepts a parameter that contains the html content to laod within an istance of the HTMLLoader class:
Comtaste has just launched its new training courses on Adobe Flex3 and AIR for late spring-early summer 2008. First courses to be scheduled are: "Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3: Developing Rich Internet Applications with the new Flex 3 SDKs"...
These days a lot of posts have been made around a new technology by Mozilla: Prism. Prism has been announced on Mozilla Labs as an experiment that tries to create desktop-based applications using web technologies. Prism allows you to create shortcuts on desktop or start menu to your favorite web applications.
Today is the second day of AdobeLiveConference here in Italy. I'm here with Enrique (and some enormous mosquitos) in the business room of the AdobeLive and we're about to start our presentation. Enrique will present Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo) and talk about Flex 3 and new features. After his presentantion I'll show the integration of the Adobe CS3 with Flex and Flex Builder. It's incredible how many things designers and creative are now able to do to help Flex developersin creating the user interface of Flex applications.
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