O’Reilly: Inside RIA

The next 360|Flex is scheduled for August 18-20, 2008. They now have the final scheduled posted and are taking registrations. The 360|Flex conferences are always excellent and have top notch speakers. Just visit the 360|Flex site to see the schedule and register.

Flash Player 10 public beta is now publicly available for download. This next generation player has added some outstanding new features. Many of these new features were first demonstrated at MAX 2007 in Chicago last year. If you didn't see these demos, here is a quick recap of these new features.

You will notice that InsideRIA has added new listen functionality that allows you to listen to each blog post. This is great for people like me who are usually very busy trying to do more than one thing at a time. Click on the new listen link and a media player will open and begin reading you the post. You also have the option to download a copy of the mp3 file to take with you on your favorite portable devise.

I was really excited during the early days of Apollo testing when the Artemis project was announced and wrote several sample applications. It was a way for AIR to communicate with Java through a bridge.

Adobe® Media Player software provides control and flexibility to view what you want, when you want — whether online or offline. You can queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing at your convenience.

This excerpt is the second part of Chapter 8 of the upcoming (March 17, 2008 - NOW SHIPPING) book titled Beginning AIR: Building Applications for the Adobe Integrated Runtime ISBN: 0470229047. Beginning AIR is written in a walk through style where the examples are built upon throughout each section of the book. The easiest way to learn how to use the API's covered is to create the examples and follow along as they are built upon. This excerpt covers the differences between asynchronous and synchronous calls to the File classes methods. It will also show how to create temporary directories and files.

Adobe has launched their 1st public alpha for building AIR applications on Linux. Included in this alpha are the AIR runtime, sample applications, and the AIR SDK.

The beta version of Flex Builder 3 has been updated to beta 3 and now includes support for building AIR applications on Linux.

The AJAX UI Toolkits wiki at http://ajax.wikia.com identifies a list of UI components most commonly used in business software applications to develop a rich Internet application user experience. Developers and technology decision makers can use the wiki to benchmark which AJAX toolkits meet their specific requirements at the level of user experience.

This excerpt is the second part of Chapter 8 of the upcoming (March 17, 2008 - NOW SHIPPING) book titled Beginning AIR: Building Applications for the Adobe Integrated Runtime ISBN: 0470229047. Beginning AIR is written in a walk through style where the examples are built upon throughout each section of the book. The easiest way to learn how to use the API's covered is to create the examples and follow along as they are built upon. This excerpt covers how to use the File class to create, move, copy, and delete files. It will also demonstrate the usage of the FileStream class for working with the contents of individual files.

360|Flex Europe is the first European Conference purely about Adobe's Flex and AIR technology. It is put on by 360Conferences , the same people who put on the 360Flex conferences in the United States. For attendee reviews of 360Flex, check out this entry .