Category Archives: Adobe AIR

Video: Desktop RIAs on Linux with Adobe AIR 1.5

By James Ward | Published: January 14, 2009

Adobe recently announced the release of Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux! For us Linux users this is huge! Now desktop RIAs with Adobe AIR work the same on Windows, Mac, and Linux! I recorded a short instructional video that shows how to get it working. (Original video size is 1024 x [...]

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Flash Platform Partner Resources

By James Ward | Published: January 8, 2009

The Flash Platform (Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, etc.) has become a mainstream software development platform. This is very exciting but also leads to me getting a boat-load of email. That is great! I love hearing from the community and answering questions. I do respond to every email I get – [...]

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Learn Flex Fast – Adobe AIR and Flex Jam in Colorado

By James Ward | Published: January 6, 2009

February 25 – 27, 2009 Bruce Eckel and I will be hosting a Flex / Adobe AIR Jam in Crested Butte, Colorado. Anyone who needs to learn Flex or take their Flex programming skills further will enjoy the atmosphere and methodology of this event. Attendees can: Follow our book First Steps in Flex Follow our [...]

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Using Adobe AIR and Flex to Make Your Apps Bling

By James Ward | Published: November 25, 2008

At Dreamforce 2008, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, I co-presented a session about integrating Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. A recording of that presentation is now available. Let me know what you think.

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Oracle CRM Gadgets using Adobe AIR and Flex

By James Ward | Published: November 18, 2008

Oliver Marks is reporting that Oracle has released five new CRM Gadgets built using Adobe AIR and Flex! At Oracle OpenWorld 2008 I had the chance to record a video of these new gadgets. Check it out: This is a great innovation in the usually boring CRM software space. Great job Oracle!

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Take the Tour de Flex

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008

Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively [...]

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Flex at Dreamforce 2008

By James Ward | Published: October 30, 2008

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ll be at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco. On Tuesday I’ll be co-presenting a session on using Adobe AIR and Flex with Force.com. The rest of the time I’ll probably be in the developer lounge hacking on Flex code. Stop [...]

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Adobe AIR and Flex in Amsterdam

By James Ward | Published: October 28, 2008

In a few weeks I’ll be over in Amsterdam for JFall and FlexCamp. Both events will have some new and exciting presentations about Adobe AIR and Flex. At JFall I’ll be presenting “The Future of the Open Source Flex SDK” and at the FlexCamp I’ll be presenting “Gumbo, what will bring Flex4 to [...]

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Flex in Denmark

By James Ward | Published: September 26, 2008

Next week I’ll be in Denmark for a few Flex presentations at JAOO and at the local university: Architecture of a Rich Internet Application (RIA) with Josh Holmes Developing RIAs using Adobe AIR & Flex Data Synchronization for Rich Internet Applications Oct 1st Presentation at the University Hopefully I will see some of you there!

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