This apply with EcmaScript 4.0,Francis Cheng made a clear explanation of how to use Type Parameters to add type checking in a collection class.
Very useful, now when will AS3 and JS be compatible with this new format ? Well be patient (and try to stay young and fresh :p)
Ahmet
In an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies.
I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked greatly and some did not…
I’ll try to gather all the different move I’ve made (and I’ll make) and let you know what to do and what to avoid ;)
My first step was to present to my boss what our existing technologies could be with AIR, all the advantages of desktop applications, supporting internal database, connections aware and finally demanding very few adjustment to our already existing application to be deployed.
Just told him about the few times involvement and the small budget to allocate and you’ll make a positive point in your argumentations.
The second day, very enthusiast I told him about the easy installation process and the lightweight of the plug-in: bad idea! Technical argument won’t, most of the time, speak to entrepreneurs.
If you are, like me, pushing your boss to shift to AIR, be smart and follow this thread ;=)
Any advices are welcome…
Ahmet
Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex.
Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did :)
Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed)
Download source code
Ahmet
Monday we had the AUGG (Adobe User Group Genève) meeting to celebrate the release of Adobe AIR and FLEX 3.0. I had a camera recorder during the meeting and I asked several questions (Why AIR? Why Flex? Why Flash? Why Not Silverlight?). The answer are funny & serious at the same time :)
If you want to join us for the next event, just keep looking at AUGG!
View all the video of this meeting on YouTube
I want to thanks everyone who answered the questions, as it’s not easy to improvise when you are eating and drinking :)
Ahmet
Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future.
Read the translated version (originally text is in French).
Here are a few interesting quotes:
[...]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we are not against it
[...]The web is an environment which is changing very rapidly, and we have the R & D teams to advance Flash the best as possible. But one can imagine that, in due course, when the format will be more mature, Flash will also be open source.
[...]Yes, we have a few projects related to Flash. We have a Media player in development, to take advantage of Internet video. It is a sector that has actually just started, and that has a tremendous growth curve. And then there is AIR, which is a technology that allows applications to create classics, but related websites. It is a tool to be always connected, even without launching a Web browser.[...]
Ahmet
Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy.
For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR.
If you didn’t started yet with AIR don’t worry! It’s just a single click away for your web applications to be on the desktop. With a few more lines of code you can have rich interaction with the desktop.
Or go tonight to your local User Group (tonight in Geneva).
Ahmet
As a father I enjoy filming my family with a ‘customers camera’ that export files to MPG in AC3 format.
But as a possessor of Adobe Premiere Pro I would have been happy to work my movies. Unfortunately, Premiere Pro will not read the sound of any AC3 encoded files (certainly due to some licensing reasons).
Fortunately there is a work around I found on Adobeforum, just copy the file ad2ac3dec.dll from Adobe Encore Folder and past it in the Adobe Premiere Pro folder. Relaunch your application and your file will have the sound included!
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Ahmet
