Adobe has released a new version for their 2 runtimes, Flash Player and AIR. Naturally, with those releases come new and improved features as well. Let's take a look at what makes it worth to upgrade to the next version. Let's start with the new Flash Player. You can download it ...

OK, so now we're done with the AIR 2.0 workshop here. Things were really looking good and we had some great questions and responses from the audience. Let me make a small summary of what we covered. Peter Elst was up first and he talked about the basic stuff ...

When creating an AIR project, you automatically get an XML configuration file for your application, which contains the initial width and height, the available icons and the indication whether or not the application uses a custom chrome (amongst other settings). This XML file has the same name as the application ...

Everyone knows by now that variable binding is something that is constantly used in Flex and AIR applications. The simplest way of using this feature is making use of the [Bindable] metadata tag. However, there’s a second way that is commonly used and that is the <mx:Binding> tag. This one ...

For those of you who don't know Ben Forta, he's the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books about ColdFusion (nad other technologies). He's also the director of the evangelism team. Every once in a while you get the chance to meet with him at ...

If you are using view states and want to apply certain transitions between these states, there are some things to keep in mind. When adding components to a state, the transition effects (also called behaviors) are applied to that component while adding it. So this means that the effects will ...

Hey everyone, I've just found out that the first beta version of both Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst are available on labs.adobe.com. Flash Builder has some very useful inprovements, like source refactoring, framework package explorer, ... The Flash Catalyst version is somewhat different from the version that was ...

A while ago, I’ve written my first real, technically complex AIR application for a client. Like I mentioned in another post then (http://blog.multimediacollege.be/2009/03/using-the-local-encrypted-database-in-air-theory-and-practise/) , the theory and practice of the SQLite database that is shipped with AIR don’t always ...

I’ve just finished a rather technical AIR project in which I encountered some major and minor issues regarding the use of AIR technology and I thought I would share them with you all, hoping I can provide some solutions to problem you may encounter when you create your ...

A few days ago, Adobe asked me to speak on a workshop about the integration between ColdFusion 8 and Flex. As a ColdFusion developer, the ColdFusion part was not a problem, but I was a bit afraid by the Flex part, since I've never used Flex or flex builder before.  I ...