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If you've missed it find the time to have a look at this video tutorial on AIR development with Linux by Mike Chambers:
Getting Started With AIR on Linux - In this tutorial Mike Chambers explains the basics of how to get setup with AIR on Linux.
Mike gave you an overview on how to install Adobe AIR on Linux system and how to install and unistall AIR applications under Linux.
I'm glad to announce that I'll be one of the trainer for the Meet The Guru Training Courses (about Flex 3, Actionscript 3 and AIR) that Comtaste organized.
The importance of the guru role for the general knowledge progression does not need to be explained or highlighted any further.
Unfortunately enough, the chances to meet and interact with expert people in specific fields are pretty limited; normally you have to search the information you need on his/her blog (but rarely you find "that exact piece of information"), or you can assist a one hour speech at a conference (maybe not exactly dealing with the subject of your interest).
Seldom if ever you can take the benefit of the interaction with a Guru for training purposes, the only capable to transfer you an actual understanding of how to go beyond what tools are designed to do, how the experts push the boundaries of the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary.
That is why Comtaste has launched the “Meet the Guru” training initiative: a series of training courses held by internationally recognised Gurus of the Adobe community on top cool subjects. Peter Elst, Marco Casario and Koen de Weggheleire will teach ActionScript 3, Flex 3 and AIR in full time 3-4 day courses in London next October
I've decided the tile and content of my session that I'll present at Flash on The Beach : Mash-up widgets with Adobe AIR
I'm pretty busy this period in writing the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook. Unfortunately the book won't be out for this summer but if you want to learn how to create cool desktop application with AIR using Flash, the well known David Tucker (the main author of the AIR Cookbook) has released a video coruse for Lynda.com site:
AIR for Flash Developers
with: David Tucker
One of my favourite AIR features is the support of creating local database file using SQLite embedded engine. If you have SQL skills it'll be easy to storing persistent local data to your desktop application. You can use this feature to store application data, favourite users' configuration options, document-oriented application, to cache data and synch it with the network.
Creating a SQLite database in AIR is pretty simple:
Comtaste Training is proud to announce its new training course about Flex 3 development using BlazeDS. The course is the result of some enquiries made by our clients about those topics.
I've worked on the outline of the course and it's ready and I've just published it on the italian section of Comtaste's site (I'm working on the english outline for this training course):
Enterprise Flex Applications: Using Flex 3 with BlazeDS and Java (JEE)
The Flex 3 and BlazeDS course adds to Comtaste's course programs and it is the open source alternative to the Enterprise Flex Applications:Using LiveCycle Data Services and J2EE (Java EE) training course.
The Flex 3 with BlazeDS is a 3-consecutive-day lessons and we're scheduling it in the following three locations: London, Milan and New York City.
Another very important and delicate aspect of desktop applications, but not only, is the one regarding data encryption. Encryption is the process of transforming data by using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing a key.
Adobe AIR has an EncryptedLocalStore class that allows to encrypt data to store it on the client’s machine. Adobe AIR EncryptedLocalStore APIs use DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface) on Windows and the Keychain on Mac.
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 load within an istance of the HTMLLoader class. With this simple code you'll load the htmlToLoad string into the HTMLLoader class. The _html istance will be rendered as HTML the content through the WebKit engine
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...
Yesterday the AIR 1.1 was released by Adobe. AIR 1.1 is a small release that introduces international support to applications.
From a development point of view if you're suing Flex 3 to create the AIR application you need to take some manual steps in order to include support for AIR 1.1.
The AIR Cookbook was on Amazon last week and now the project was officially announced by Adobe. I'm pretty excited for this book because, first of all, it is my first book for O'Reilly and then we got a great group of authors: David Tucker, Rich Tretola, and Koen De Weggheleire as well as myself.
Today Adobe has launched the AIR Cookbook site. Like the Flex Cookbook you can use the AIR cookbook to share knowledge and find answers to common coding problems.
Adobe has created a new section on the Adobe AIR support page oriented to IT administrators.
On this page you'll find the "Adobe AIR Administrators Guide" (PDF) that provides details on how to deploy Adobe AIR in enterprises and tuning of other runtime settings, and other reference documentations for the enterprise scenarios.
I've just finished working on the Advanced AIR Applications book for FriendsOfED, that a new book project started. I'm now involved in writing the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook, accepting the invitation made by David Tucker. The other authors are talented Flex and AIR developers with a lot of writing experiences: Rich Tretola, Koen De Weggheleire and David Tucker.
This is my first book for O'Reilly and I'm glad to work with you guys !
These days here in Comtaste, I'm very busy for a consulting activity to support a project for an Adobe's Italy partner (I'm under NDA so I can't do names), working on a enterprise desktop AIR application (that uses Java, Oracle Form and Hibernate). The project is a porting of an ActionScript 3/J2EE web application, so what we're doing is to write ActionScript 3 classes to add AIR desktop functionalities.
If you create help system, knoledge base RoboHelp is the tool you're using.
Now Adobe has released the RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR on Adobe Labs. You can download th package and start exporting your assets for the desktop with AIR.
Adobe has created three sample AIR files to experience the look and feel of Help delivered via Adobe AIR:
* Customer Care
* RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR Help
* 3DbreakAssembly
For Adobe Italy Comtaste has created a series of free events where we'll talk about the use of Flex, Livecycle Data Services, BlazeDS and AIR development in enterprises contexts.
If you want to update the Adobe AIR runtime manually you have to disable the auto-update capability. Using the AIR SettingsManager you can disable it.
AIR SettingsManager is a small application that use a toggle button to Enable or Disable auto-updates as desired.
Download AIR SettingsManager application.
Working with Adobe AIR's d ead and write methods, we encountered some strange behaviors when using the readUTF() method to read text files (TXT or RTF).
In fact if the text file we're opening has not been created by Adobe AIR, we got a runtime error (number #2030 line ending ....) from the Flash Player. Investigating we discovered that the readUTF() method won't find a couple of bytes embedded into the file that it needs.
The Adobe AIR 1 for JavaScript Developer pockek guide has been updated to Adobe AIR 1.0 and it's ready to donwload.
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