Tomorrow night I’ll be presenting at the New York GNU/Linux Meetup Group about Adobe Open Source – including the Adobe Flex SDK, Mozilla Tamarin, Adobe AIR (pieces like SQLite and WebKit), and BlazeDS. More details here. Hope to see you there!
Category Archives: Adobe AIR
Talkin’ About a Revolution
Revolutions may be enabled by technology, but they are driven by people. Adobe’s recent announcements about Flex, Flash, and Adobe AIR on Linux are the most recent technology enablers for the software revolution that is currently underway. Usually I’m one of the first to post about Adobe’s Linux related announcements. My trip to Bangalore, India, [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex, Linux 1 Comment
Video: Building Turbulent AIR Applications on Linux
Adobe recently released an alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux and a updated alpha 3 version of Flex Builder for Linux. I wanted to show everyone how easy it is to build and run desktop RIAs with Flex and Adobe AIR so I recorded a quick video. In the video I use Papervision3D and [...]
Also posted in Flex, Linux, Papervision3D 6 Comments
Bursting Bubbles
Bubblemark is a popular benchmark for some of the RIA technologies including Flex, Adobe AIR, Ajax (DHTML), Java Swing, Java FX, Silverlight, etc. I’ve been trying for a while to create a new Flex version of Bubblemark to show just how fast Flash Player and Adobe AIR are. But I’ve come to a few realizations… [...]
Also posted in Flash Player, Flex 17 Comments
Around the World with Flex and Adobe AIR
Over the next few months I’ll be going around the world (literally) speaking about Flex and Adobe AIR. Here’s a quick rundown on where I’ll be: Wednesday March 25 in Las Vegas: TheServerSide Java Symposium – Co-presenting with Eddie O’Neil from BEA Thursday March 26 in Philadelphia: Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise – Porting from [...]
Also posted in BEA, Flex, Java, Salesforce.com 8 Comments
Video: Flex 3 / Adobe AIR 1.0 Pre-release Tour
In case you missed the Flex 3 / Adobe AIR 1.0 Pre-release Tour that went on around the world in January you can watch a recording of the session Serge Jespers and I did in Amsterdam. It starts out in Dutch but soon switches to English. You can skip ahead by clicking on a topic [...]
3… 2… 1… LIFT OFF!
Today Adobe launched Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0 – the most mature and comprehensive platform for Rich Internet Applications in existence. The news of the launch is everywhere but I wanted to point out a few of the most exciting things related to this launch. The Flex SDK and BlazeDS are now officially open [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, Flex, Java, Salesforce.com 3 Comments
Announcing the Force.com Toolkit for Adobe AIR and Flex
Almost a year ago I began working with Ron Hess and Dave Carroll from Salesforce on the Flex Toolkit for Apex – a port of the JavaScript libraries for Salesforce.com’s web services. Since that time the toolkit has matured and been used in numerous production applications. Today I am pleased to announce the new Force.com [...]
Also posted in Flex, Salesforce.com 3 Comments
Adobe AIR on Linux: Pre-Beta Testers Needed
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime for deliverying rich Internet applications on the desktop. Developers using Flex, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax can easily build applications for the desktop using Adobe AIR. As of today there have only been releases of Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac but Adobe is committed to also delivering [...]
Also posted in Ajax, Flex, Linux 45 Comments
