Space of Flex/AIR technologies

Adobe AIR 1.5 was released today, it brings a lot of significant improvements and functionality:

-      Flash Player 10 features including 3D effects, pixel bender, new drawing API, dynamic media streaming, dynamic sound API, and more
-      Updated WebKit HTML engine with greatly improved JavaScript performance
-      Encrypted local SQL database support
-      JavaScript debugging support
-      Support for five additional languages (Swedish, Dutch, Czech, Turkish, and Polish)
-      Updated DRM engine

You can go and grab it at: http://get.adobe.com/air/

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Anyone interested in case-study presentation about Flex in financial institutions I encourage you to come to MAX Milan and you should attend following session:

Flex Case Study: Raiffeisen Bank

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I will be co-running together with Duane Nickull a AIR/Flex hands on session tomorrow during Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. If you are on this event please join us in the morning, we are starting at 8:30 to 11:30. You can expect a lot of fun!!!

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Last week I had a presentation at Grill IT event located in Wrocław/Poland. I was covering Flex/AIR technologies in context of RIA. During the presentation I showed my little Flex/AIR application called SpinIt (you can follow this link to give it a try) that demonstrates code/components reusability between Desktop and Web applications.

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New version of GraniteDS 1.1 was released yestarday. Granite is an open source alternative to LCDS/BlazeDS Adobe products. It introduces several cool features and the one I like most is Tide framework that allows very tight integration with JBoss Seam framework which runs on the server side. Future versions will also support Spring and EJB3 on similar level as Seam is currently.

Also brand new Granite Eclipse Builder was released, it is very handful eclipse plugin that can generate AS3 classes based on Java Entity beans.

More info can be found on here.

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For those of you that don’t like to configure your AIR application badge manually I recommend to check out this new Badger application, it can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/badger_for_air_apps.html

This is really very cool and simple app, I think it would be nice if it was included into Flex Builder or part of SDK in the future releases.

For Polish community I posted a short intro on: http://blog.flextech.pl/2008/09/24/badger-10/

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I decided to move my blog to Wordpress instead having it on blogspot (here is the link to still working version of my previous blog walczyszyn.blogspot.com), this way I have more freedom and flexibility. I will also port few of my latest blogs.

Referring to my previous post I prepared a little AIR application called SWFFinder that helps its users to find certain classes in swf files located on your drive. It can be useful when you have tons of swfs all around and cant find wanted classes. App recursively scans all folders under selected path. I encourage anyone to use it and to share your experience, be aware that this is an alpha stage product

It can be downloaded from here: http://alterapps.pl/adobe/examples/SWFFinder/SWFFinder.air

If you want to look into the source code and check how I used getDefinitionNamesSource library by Denis Kolyako you can check it out here: http://alterapps.pl/adobe/examples/SWFFinder/srcview/

It is also accessible through SVN: http://svn.assembla.com/svn/riaspace-swffinder/