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Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 out on Labs

2009-06-03T08:08:45+00:00

Great news Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder are not both out of Adobe labs. Get going with next generation designer / developer work flow.

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AIR and Flex Tutorial

2009-05-26T09:22:25+00:00

Adobe have posted a good beginners tutorial for Flex and AIR. It’s split into a number of modules and instructions and code are included.

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Adobe AIR is a Webware 100 winner!

2009-05-20T10:23:58+00:00

Adobe AIR has won a Webware 100 award in the Infrastructure & Storage category!

Great to get more exposure for the best RIDA (Rich Internet Desktop Application) platform there is.

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Registration for Adobe MAX LA 2009 is go!

2009-05-19T12:23:37+00:00

Registration is now open for this years Adobe MAX conference. As we know there is no Max Europe this year which is disappointing but for those who can afford to go to Los Angeles this years MAX is shaping up to be a great conference.

Head on over now to save $200 off the regular price until August.

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AIRAppFriday on Twitter

2009-05-15T08:04:14+00:00

Today I started AIRAppFriday on Twitter. So the idea is that every Friday you tweet your favourite AIR application of the week using the hashtag #AIRAppFriday, simple.

So setup a search in your AIR desktop Twitter client or use the search on the Twitter website (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=airappfriday).

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Join in with filing excessive CPU bug in AIR

2009-05-07T21:38:52+00:00

There is common knowledge that AIR apps can sometimes be CPU hogs. Well Grant Skinner has written a great blog post about how an AIR application in Flash that does nothing uses 4% of his new Mackbook pro CPU. It’s worth pointing out that Grant finds this only with Mac and not Windows and it is also seen in the Flash Player.

He is urging you to file this in the bug database at Adobe called Jira, the bug is numbered FP-2009 so do a quick search for that.

In the mean time Grant has created a workaround solution that effectively cuts the framerate of your movie when running in the background. The class (called framerateThrottler) is available here and read the full post over at GSkinner.com.

There is a response from the Adobe AIR team that includes some more performance tuning options available to developers.

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FlashCamp Birmingham (uk) is go!

2009-05-06T11:11:46+00:00

FlashCamp is back in the UK at Birmingham on 16th June 2009 so get on down and register your attendance.

Again there are some great speakers and sponsors for the FREE event that runs from 12:00 until close at 20:00. Covering a variety of topics from Flex custom component creations with Mike Jones (aka Flashgen), there is some skinning with Degrafa and FXG by me (jameswhittaker.com). Some cool 3d from Away 3d creator Rob Bateman and getting started with PureMVC with Simon Bailey.

Keep an eye out for more details on the website. Pass on the message Flashcamp is coming to town.

http://flashcamp.co.uk

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Adobe AIR 64bit LInux pre-release testers needed

2009-05-05T07:38:49+00:00

Well this came out of the blue. Adobe are actively working on a 64bit version of Adobe AIR and the Linux version is going to be the first one out of the stable.

According to Ashutosh Sharma’s blog the AIR team are requesting that if you are interested and have the time to offer feedback then they would welcome your application to the pre-release program.

51 ActionScript 3 tips for optimisation and best practice

2009-04-24T08:59:21+00:00

A great article at InsideRIA today on some best practice AS3 principles for speed and optimisation so go and check it out.

There is some good feedback and extra resources mentioned in the comments particularly the newly updated Grant Skinner performance test harness for AS3 and FP10, and an article over at OSFlash on AS3 optimisation.

As usual posts like this always generate discussion both for and against what is suggested just like design patterns, however it’s always good to step back and take a look at your coding techniques every now and then.

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BBC iPlayer desktop (AIR) and HD streams out of beta

2009-04-21T18:57:26+00:00

If you didn’t know by now the BBC have released the iPlayer desktop AIR application out of the labs stable. Also new HD streams are becoming available. Read more at the BBC Internet blog.

This will really help the adoption rates of the AIR runtime which can only be a good thing.

Still wondering why the BBC didn’t include the launch now badge functionality?

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