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Exploring .air - the roundup.

Posted by James - 04/08/07 at 02:08:34 pm

Well, it’s gone Friday, so where’s my new AIR app? Unfortunately, I can’t give it you yet - although its nearly ready to be unleashed, I can’t show it until the next issue of the E-Newsletter is sent out. (That’s Marketing for you.) So you’ll have to hang on for a few weeks yet.

Nevermind, eh? I certainly learnt a lot playing with Flex builder / Air / AS3, and here’s hoping that I’ll have some spare time to do a few articles on what I’ve learnt - pitfalls, theory, code snippets, that kind of thing.

One thing I realised is that your intrinsic knowledge of Flash and it’s specialised coding methods mean very little working in Flex, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s bad - Flash programming is probably a bit of a niché market in how it’s done and works, and I get the impression that the Flex approach is a lot more mainstream theory-wise, so I’m prepared to put the effort into learning to code properly.

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One week get to grips with Adobe AIR…

Posted by James - 01/08/07 at 09:08:30 pm

“James!” they say, “you’ve been dying to play with Flex and Air. Make us an application to accompany our E-Newsletter!” How could I refuse?

“You have until friday.”

So that’s what I’ve been doing.

 

I have unfortunately, no previous experience with Flex, Air or even ActionScript 3, so this is proving to be interesting. Marketing has settled on producing an RSS reader - stay tuned and I’ll let you know how things turn out in couple o’ days.