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 own AIR projects. One of the key [...]
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Using the local encrypted database in AIR: theory and practise
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR /
Tags: AIR, certificate, database, EncryptedLocalStore, encryption, login, offline, online, password, security, SQLite
ColdFusion-Powered flex/air RIA
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 eventually decided that I [...]
Using the AIR 1.5 updater framework in Flex
I’ve been wanting to play with this for some time now, but I never got around to it … until today. Before AIR 1.5, you had to write a lot of code to be able to use an automatic update of your air application. That code included: · Present the user with an application update [...]
Flex coding: best practises
Today I found a couple of interesting articles from Sean the Flex guy about the best practices when you want to create a Flex project. You can find those articles here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/best_practices_pt1.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/best_practices_pt2.html The first one contains some guidelines on how to structure and organize your project, while the second one contains about 90 best practices [...]
AIR application that shows the Flex and AIR capabilities
Just yesterday, a new AIR application was launched on the http://flex.org website. Now you may think “Wauw, another AIR app” in a very sarcastic way, but this one is a keeper. This application let’s you experience the capabilities of Flex and AIR with some small, simple, but cool, code examples. These examples range from a [...]
