Just a quick post regarding Flash Forward 2008. There is a killer line up this year including: David Carson, Erik Natzke, Grant Skinner, Keith Peters, Lee Brimelow, Paul Ortchanian, Tinic Uro, Luke Bayes, Stacey Mulcahy and Branden Hall to name a few. David Carson should certainly have some interesting insight for the Flash community. I [...]

Here is a great book from Manning about AIR development that you might want to check out. Topics include: windowing, menus, file system, drag-and-drop, local databases, SQLite, HTML in AIR, network connectivity and also updating/distributing apps. Flex and Flash based AIR development techniques are covered. “Adobe AIR in Action introduces AIR to developers familiar with [...]