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 in AIR. Since the audience was [...]
Tag Archive for AIR
Solving the “missing AIR application XML file” error in Flash Builder
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 itself, followed by “-app.xml”. OK, [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash Builder /
Tags: AIR, app.xml, application, code-behind, Flash Builder
Ben Forta is coming to town
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 some ColdFusion event, but not often in [...]
Category: AIR, ColdFusion, Conference, Flash Builder /
Tags: AIR, Ben Forta, ColdFusion, event, Flash Builder
SQLite database updates: the necessary heavyweight solution
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 match. And so, now I had to find out another annoying thing about this very very [...]
Using the local encrypted database in AIR: theory and practise
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 [...]
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 [...]
