As previously mentioned the “Developing AIR Applications with Adobe Flex 3” online manual is really a great place to get information for many of the aspects of AIR development using Flex 3.0. This example was created using the code and information available on this page. There are three classes available to monitor network connectivity for [...]

First off thanks to everyone who stopped by to congratulate me on my new “Flex Champion” status. Second, thanks again to Suzanne Nguyen and everyone at Adobe for this awesome opportunity. I am truly honored. Third, congrats to my fellow Flex Champions Chad Udell and David Flatley. Now, on to the free Flex books!!! Congrats [...]

Ted Patrick recently visited San Diego and gave a presentation for the upcoming release of Flex Builder 3.0 and AIR 1.0. One thing that stood out was the slideshow that Ted used during his presentation. One important screen that jumped out at me was the Adobe AIR Application Stack. The 6 Adobe AIR APIs in [...]

2007 was an AWESOME year for Flex and AIR. 2008 should continue this trend. Here are several different technologies and other items I plan on monitoring going into 2008. Some of these are bleeding edge, others are fundamentals which we’ve been studying for years. “I’m sure that Flex skills will be one of the hottest [...]

The Adobe Flex job market has been doing very well over the past 10 months or so. See the chart below for some aggregated calculations from hotgigs.com for hourly Flex rates. I am not sure where they are getting these numbers but this does seem to be inline with what’s going on in the industry. [...]

Announcing “kannopy – AIR Application Development and Consulting”. This exciting new company will focus on application development using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. kannopy should be officially open for business sometime in early 2008. In addition to pure AIR app dev kannopy will also offer high end experience and UI design for Flex and AIR applications. [...]

We all remember the old school gabo site. Here is an AIR application Gabo Mendoza is developing. It looks pretty cool. From the homepage: “Wouldn’t it be great if you could take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you’ve got your eye on, your web [...]

Burrow extends the search ability of Craigslist.org classified ad listings. Search and scan results from up to 20 cities at once. Clip and save listings. Email the results to you or a friend. Turn on auto update to refresh listings. Now telecommuters and contractors can quickly scan gigs from all over the US, Recruiters and [...]

Here are 10 new books that will be available in late 2007 and throughout the year in 2008. Enjoy! Foundation AIR: Creating Desktop Applications with the Adobe Integrated Runtime (Foundations) by: Zach Stepek Paperback – Jan, 2008 Professional AIR: Application Development for the Adobe Integrated Runtime by: Charles Freedman, Keith Peters, Clint Modien, and Ben [...]

Following up the list of 22 ActionScript 3.0 libraries is a new list of 31 Flex APIs and resources. You will find: time saving APIs, libraries, tools and other resources related to Flex development. Adobe Flex cookbook beta http://www.tiny.cc/VbU44 AnimatedGIfLoader Flex Component Allows you to load animated gif files into your Flex applications http://dougmccune.com/blog/animatedgifloader-flex-component/ Asdia [...]