While cleaning my PC, I noticed several old AIR applications I installed only on testing purpose. As they were installed with a old version of AIR, I was asked to upgrade my AIR application to be able to delete it…
Deleting the AIR plugin solved the problem :)
Ahmet
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A very good news for all AIR developer or for all people hesitating to use AIR for future applications. AIR is bundled in Acrobat Reader 9 (released yesterday), as Acrobat Reader is still one of the most downloaded software of Adobe [it is my assumption, I couldn't find any stats :(] it will certainly help a lot the penetration of AIR (which I couldn’t find any stats either…). It is interesting to note that some people tend to see bundled software like an unfair ways of doing distributing applications, some commented onRyan Stewart’s post concern about security and posted a link to a sample of trojan injection via PDF. Even if I was aware of some security problems with Flash and Acrobat, I didn’t knew this method to inject .exe via a PDF. Personally I understand those concern, an incredible high number of user don’t update their software and so are more vulnerable to attack. I think that Adobe could offer the choice to people, even if for the developers and for market share it is not as profitable :) |
Ahmet
Just a quick note to relay the information, Adobe’s great idea of offering online community driven cookbook is now extended to AIR.
That is a big news! The Flex Builder 3 Professional is now free for all students and edu customer:
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro is available for free to all education customers. This includes all students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.
Wondering why you finished your study so early?
:)
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
