Present.ly Microblogging AIR Application for Business (Open Source)
For a good part of 2009 I had the extreme pleasure of working with Intridea on an open source AIR application for their Present.ly microblogging service. Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world. The service has a Twitter-compatible API so tools built for Twitter can be adapted to Present.ly (with a few small modifications). You can learn more about the service and how it’s different from Twitter on the website, specifically the tour. I recommend watching this video for a brief introduction to what the service is all about.
This was a great project to work on and the people at Intridea were just awesome to work with. They allowed me to do the development without any distraction or micro-management. The application already existed when they got in touch but they wanted to change a few things and also update the codebase to a more standards based approach since the app is open source. The codebase now uses Cairngorm and Flex Unit and is also fully commented for ASDoc. It also used Degrafa for some of the view. I’d really like to thank Dave at Intridea for the opportunity to work together, it was a great experience and I really enjoyed working on the application.
You can visit the page for the AIR client here. The app is available for download and you can also browse or download the source code from github.
Intridea also has several other applications for the Present.ly service including a really cool web based application, an iPhone app and an Android app to name a few.
Take a minute to check out the Present.ly service. It was mentioned as Best-Bet Collaboration Tool by Inc. Magazine and also won an WebWare 100 Editor’s Choice Award. Intridea is a pretty cool company doing some exciting things!! You can sign up for the Present.ly service here.
Nice work Sean. I’m going to get my team to try it out on Monday.
I think if I *had* to gripe about something and that something being completely out of your hands, it would be – why no signed certificate? I downloaded it cause I trust you but normally, if I come across an AIR app without one I’m hesitant to install.
Hey Brandon!
Thanks for checking out the app and the blog post. I think Present.ly is pretty cool personally.
On the certificate piece, that’s something I want to look into more. Do you have any good resources or info you can share? From what I’ve seen there is are some issues with the certs?
Hope you’re doing well. Thanks again for checking out the app and leaving a comment.
Take care,
Sean
Hey no problem Sean.
For the stuff we do, the company I work for purchased a Thawte certificate. I think it runs about 300 a year. Not cheap but unlimited use per year per domain.
My group has been talking about using something like Twitter. (we’ve been using IRC for the last five years
). Gonna give it a try this week.
Have a good one Sean
b
Hey Brandon,
Thanks for the response!
That’s actually not bad. I’ve seen a number of people expressing concerns about cost of the certificates. What’s involved in getting it integrated with the AIR app? (If you have any good resources, I can always google it).
Yeah please let me know what you think about the service. The web based app they have is really awesome. I think this service is very valuable to businesses for communication. Like IM/IRC but more robust. Nothing wrong with IRC though, classic service there
Hope you and the fam are well. You going to MAX? I won’t be at MAX but I might get a hotel room up there and try to host some type of unconference gathering/get together. (Still thinking about it and pricing rooms at the moment…) If the planets align we really need to hang out for a minute!
Thanks again for checking out the post and the comments.
Take care,
Sean