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Best Practice for AIR applications (1 of 7)
One thing that could severely affect peoples’ general opinion of a technology is how it’s used, how it’s implimented. AIR in itself isn’t a technology that is really any better or worse than its competitors – it’s the usage that makes the difference – and customers make assumptions about a technology from how they see it used, not what it can do on paper. It’s important then, for AIR applications to be made with the quality as other applications, and with this in mind I thought I’d have a go at establishing some guidelines.
Guidelines, or Best Practice, should be pretty familiar to Flash/Flex developers – a lot of what we do is made for the web, and the web has guidelines (in the form of the W3C). AIR is a newish development platform, so a lot of the elements here represent a lot of work initally, but I’m trying to ignore the development it represents and imagine where things should be in a year or so. I have seven rough ‘categories’ with about 20 points total – too much to write in one night, so here’s the first of several posts on the subject.
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ImageSizer is now available from the Adobe AIR Marketplace!
A couple of days ago Adobe relaunched the AIR Marketplace – the official repository of AIR applications available for download – and with it made things a lot more accessible for ‘Publishers’ to add their applications to the Marketplace. I’m not really sure how you got your applications on the previous version of the marketplace, but now you just have to submit yourself as a publisher, get approved, and then submit your AIR application to the Marketplace (which also has to be approved).
So I’m pleased to announce that ImageSizer is now available from the Adobe AIR Marketplace, and we even fixed a few bugs in the process.
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Can AIR revolutionise E-Readers?
Here’s an article from Time magazine that’s been doing the rounds because it mentions AIR. It only mentions it once, but that’s good enough to get it on the radar(!). Stick with it until page 2 and you’ll see the mention. Ignoring the AIR connection, there are a few interesting points in there about the growth and likely technological direction of e-readers – interesting to me not least because MMT Digital works with closely with Hodder publishing, who are understandably interested in e-reader technology.
Read the article at: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877161-1,00.html
Building a project tracker in Flex & AIR
Ok, this isn’t going to be a tutorial – not yet anyways. So many projects, so little time to write about them.
As part of my attempts to improve the way I work, I’ve been on the look out for a private hosting solution for Subversion, that comes with project management tools like bug reporting, and – crucially – an API that I can work with in Actionscript. My rather uninspired image above is the first draft of my bug tracking tool.
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