Flash, Ajax, and Ruby on Rails Integration Screencast
As noted by many people last week, Adaptive Path (who coined the term Ajax) has released an amazing new Flash based slider component that can be controlled via JavaScript, much like the Yahoo! Maps...
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New AIR Pocketguide from O’Reilly on Amazon
The new AIR Pocketguide for JavaScript Developers that Mike Chambers, Kevin Hoyt, and I wrote is now available on Amazon. For some reason the cover isn’t shown on Amazon but I have attached it here....
View ArticleThe Desktop Takes Center Stage Again
One thing I am asked about ever so often is the reasoning behind building a desktop runtime when over the last few years people have been moving to the web? Even though there are benefits to building...
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Taking Your Applications Offline Using AIR
When we are out talking to developers about AIR, we spend a lot of time discussing offline applications. AIR has a lot of functionality for building offline applications such as connectivity APIs and...
View ArticleFree Flex, Flash and AIR Books
Recently I was lucky enough to participate in the authoring of a book on JavaScript development in AIR with Mike Chambers, Kevin Hoyt, and Dragos Georgita. What has been great about this book is how...
View ArticleHow to Push AIR Application Updates
One of the benefits of web applications is the ability to quickly publish updates to the application to your end users. As soon as you upload the changes to your web server, your users and enjoying the...
View ArticleSaving Encrypted Data in AIR
Have you ever wanted to store a users password, you know, that little checkbox that says ‘Save Password’ on any login form. Or maybe you just want to persist a session token or other information. You...
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