Archive for June, 2007

Flex component development mindset
Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Rowan wrote a nice article abou flex components. He give us a clear picture on why you shoud use the components on your applications. Components are so easy to use, that it’s almost criminal to start building your first rough cut without them. One of the biggest benefits is how well you can capture your [...]

Hi, Matt Chotin posted the slides and sample code from his various talks at Flex Maniacs. Keynote: Slides MXML Inside Out: Slides Code ActionScript 3 Performance: Slides Code Brgds, CP Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

Adobe AIR Free Book Download
Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Hi, Ajaxian is posted new Air Free Book download. The book covers: Introduction to AIR Getting Started with AIR development Working with JavaScript and HTML within AIR AIR Mini Cookbook Command line tools Aliases Check the post and download pocket book. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to [...]

Mike Downey posted about a new Air Adobe AIR desktop application ( Pownce) as a companion to the browser-based application. What is it? Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of [...]

Air Tutorial – Self Updating Applications
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

One of the beauties of Apollo is the ability of the application to update itself whenever necessary. Check how to do it. By Rich Tretola. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

Air Tutorial – Simple Drag and Drop AIR
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Drag and Drop from the desktop to an AIR application is one of the new features of AIR. By Rich Tretola Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

TwittAIR application updated
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Source code of TwittAir available. Lee uploaded the full source. Check his post and download here. Brgds, CP Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

Now everyone is able to preview .ASE, or .DAE files of PV3D. Details: Download pv3d_previewer_1.1.zip (305kbytes, the tool is 36kbytes) Keys: – : decrease mesh scale + : increase mesh scale Version History 2007 06 13: v1.1: – MacOS support – Triangles rendered stats added on the FPS bar – Object loaded now rotates automaticaly [...]

Hello, Check this article by Tim Anderson. He starts to say that AIR isn’t useless however says “it is all a touch schizophrenic, and there are two separate AIR development kits, for HTML and for Flash. AIR actually includes two JavaScript engines, one in Flash and another in WebKit. Adobe has lost its focus and [...]

New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Wow, IBM is all the time surprising us with the supercomputers. This time they developed a new computer, “Blue gene/p” that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops. Just for your guindance, and to bear in mind what this new computer represents, the last faster supercomputer, “Blue [...]