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 [...]
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Flex Builder for Linux Alpha 2 is Out!
I’ve been using Alpha 1 of Flex Builder for Linux since it shipped back in October and it’s been working great! It’s great to see Alpha 2 out the door! More info here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/ http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/releasenotes.html
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Exchange MAPI Connector for Evolution
Just a quick note to say how excited I am that Evolution will be getting a MAPI Connector! I’ve been using Evolution with Exchange since 2003. Thankfully it works – but for me it crashes quite often. So I’m really excited about the prospect of a better Exchange connector. Screen scraping is just too brittle [...]
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Flex Builder for Linux!!!
I love vi. I’ve been doing Flex development on Linux for about three years – mostly with vi. But to be honest when building complex applications it is nice to have things like code hinting and integrated debugging. I’m sure you *could* make vi do that with Flex but I am not brave enough to [...]
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Testing AIR Applications on Linux
*** WARNING – THIS IS TOTALLY UNSUPPORTED, UNENDORSED, AND A COMPLETE HACK *** I tried for a while to get the actual Adobe AIR runtime installed via wine on Linux. But I wasn’t able to get it to work. Then I realized that I don’t really need the whole runtime to just test my AIR [...]
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Flex Development on Linux Tip: Use Epiphany not Firefox
I am usually on Linux when I develop Flex applications and I recently discovered a cool trick that makes development even easier. Use Epiphany as the browser you run / test your applications in instead of Firefox. Here’s a few reasons: – If Epiphany crashes because your app goes crazy it doesn’t take your normal [...]
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Slides from UbuntuLive
On Sunday I was in Portland for UbuntuLive. I had two sessions, one focused on what I call “The Irrelevant Operating System” and the other was about building cross-platform applications on Linux with Flex. This was the second Linux conference I’ve spoken at. I hope to speak at more because Linux has been an important [...]
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Summer of Flex and AIR
There is a ton of great Flex and AIR events going on over the next few months. Here’s the run down of events I’ll be at: The FREE Flex Camp is July 27th in San Francisco. This is going to be a great way to learn more about Flex. Spots are going fast so go [...]
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How I Overcame My Fear of Flash
Long ago I remember the first Flash site I ever saw–spinning gears replaced typically boring site navigation and sound illuminated a previously silent web. My jaw dropped and I said to myself, “I want to build these kinds of websites!” After playing with Flash Professional for days, I realized that my mathematically inclined brain just [...]
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