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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.

Apollo takes to the .air

Posted by James - 26/06/07 at 10:06:55 pm

Much like the Spartan king from that movie 300, Apollo has obviously spent its time in the alpha version wilderness, and has returned to take on its new name. All praise “AIR”. (Adobe Integrated Runtime)

Seriously though, I’m not sure that it returned wrapped in the skin of a dead wolf (or a dead Silverlight) but it certainly piqued the industries’ interest. Time will tell, as always, whether the stir it caused actually forced Microsoft into announcing features they hadn’t planned for, or wether the race is truely still on.

Anyway, enough mystical-sounding crap. What’s this all about then?

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