I recently had a lot of problems with the Adobe AIR framework so I thought I’d share that information with you. Background Last summer I was busy developing a few Adobe AIR applications (GMDesk, facedesk, Memory), and then during the fall i didn’t do much of that. Then in November last y...

Blog | Tech Blog | Secure Coding | Twitter | RSS Feed ---- Pissed by the sweltering heat, I started looking out for some good room coolers and look what I found over at mouth shut, none other than apna Adobe has launched room air coolers under the brand Adobe Air. Now, that ought to give the Air pla...

digg_url = 'http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/adobe-air-apps-photo-video/'; digg_title = '20+ Great Adobe AIR Apps for Photos & Videos'; digg_bodytext = 'Adobe AIR is proving more and more useful all of the time. A slew of tools are targeted towards designers and developers, but AIR apps can also...

The end of 2008 is near, and I felt it was time to summarize the passed year. As with every year, lots of things happened, so I’ve struggled a bit with the things I’d like to mention and which ones I think will follow (or haunt?) us in 2009. Prepare for some very varying topics as well a...

At Pathfinder we do a fair amount of desktop style development -- iPhone/Cocoa, WebForms, Swing -- and web application development -- Grails, Rails, JSP, ASP.NET, etc., etc.. In the last two years we, like a lot of other software development shops, have experienced a convergence in our efforts. The ...

By Mona Nomura of Pixel Bits (FriendFeed/Twitter) The main advantage to Windows for me, is that I am familiar with maintenance. I go straight into registry files, poke, shift, and delete stuff - confident my actions will not interfere with my PC's innards. I know Windows. OS X is a whoooole differen...

Adobe AIR was first introduced on 19 March 2007 with the name of Apollo and designed as a cross-operating system runtime that enables web developers to use their existing web development skills, code and tools to build and deploy rich web applications and content to the desktop. With Adobe AIR’...

Holy hell. I’ve been tearing my hair out all night trying to figure out how to make a fully transparent and chrome-less native window using the mx:Window class. Luckily, thanks to Bradical from this post, I found the solution. You just need to set showFlexChrome equal to False in your mx:Windo...

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Desktop Clients via Fluid from Todd Ditchendorf on Vimeo. Seriously, with a utility as awesome as Fluid, I can’t fathom a single reason to bother with the craptastic, sandboxed nature of Adobe AIR. Site designers can simply build their generic mobile site—and an iPhone-specific version if th...