Category Archives: AIR

Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo)

Don’t Panic.

Dear Flash & Flex Interactive Developers, keep calm and carry on. The news from Adobe seems like a big deal now but I’m not sure that it’s soon enough to judge what the long term impact will be. In my … Continue reading

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Fast Intro to Flash

There is plenty of documentation, tutorials and explanation of Flash on the internet, blogs and books. However, it’s hard for me to find a good, concise article that covers Flash well. I’ve been exposing Flash 9 to a friend of … Continue reading

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Adobe Flash Platform RIA ActionScript Reference – Download it. Print it. Use it. Love it.

Adobe have recently released a new document on devnet cumbersomely titled the Adobe® Flash® Platform ActionScript® Reference Rich Internet Application Development also known as the AFP RIA Guide or Every class in a book. You can get the free, CC … Continue reading

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In the age of AIR has Zinc zunk?

I recently spotted an ad on a website for Zinc (a tool for creating standalone software from Flash content) and was actually kind of surprised to see that they were still around since the release of AIR which does essentially … Continue reading

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Flash player 10

Its that time again. Time to get into the latest and greatest tech from one of those giant software engineering companies. This time, the tech is Adobe’s Flash player 10. Step 1: download the Flex 4 SDK and the Flash … Continue reading

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