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Getting Started With Adobe Alchemy

Damon Edwards
April 15, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (23)

With the ability compile C and C++ code and leverage it via ActionScript, Adobe's project Alchemy should be on your radar. If you haven't heard of it yet, here's a direct quote from Alchemy's labs page giving a little more...

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Migrating AIR Application Certificates

Damon Edwards
April 14, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)

So, you built your AIR application, packaged it using a self-signed certificate, and put it out on the world wide web for everyone to use. What happens if your little experiment starts to pick up, or you want to move...

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Managing Memory Consumption During Hard Times

Damon Edwards
February 13, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)

When building applications, in most situations you'll be dealing with all sorts of dynamic content. Meaning, requesting data from a server, then displaying results on the screen by attaching objects to the display list. Usually, this means dealing with some...

The Art of System Tray and Dock Icons

Damon Edwards
February 3, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (11)

With the explosion of Adobe AIR apps hitting the streets these days, from corporate applications to small single developer applications, it's a wonder to me how a lot of these applications forget about some of the most important aspects of an application. One being, system tray or dock icons. Lets explore the importance of these icons, and how to implement them in your own application.

Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application
Russ Ferguson

If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Decorator Design Pattern
Sean Moore

Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
Flash to iPhone
Veronique Brossier

The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading
AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview
Elad Elrom

Adobe just released public information about AIR 2.0 and added new capabilities that better tie with the operation systems which gives your application more control while increasing performance. The new version will be deployed on Flash player 10 using Flex... Continue Reading

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