http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/ AIR Application Developer en Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 09:33:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/05/adobe_feeds_upd.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/05/adobe_feeds_upd.html Adobe Thu, 08 May 2008 09:33:44 -0800 First, I personally apologize for the downtime. We've been meaning to find MXNA a new home for quite a while now, and we finally decided to make the time to do it. If you're interested in the story behind what happened, here it is. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/05/the_new_mxna_ax.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/05/the_new_mxna_ax.html Adobe Mon, 05 May 2008 21:08:10 -0800 With just a few hours of work, I was able to make Newsbrew much more robust by using Google's new RESTful feed APIs. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/weekend_update.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/weekend_update.html Web Development Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:32:44 -0800 PixelPerfect is a simple AIR application for measuring things on your desktop. If you want to see how it works, check out this screencast. If you want to see the code, check out the PixelPerfect Google Code project. And finally, if you just want to install it, click on the badge below. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/the_latest_vers.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/the_latest_vers.html Apollo Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:12:49 -0800 I wrote a news aggregator a couple of years ago called Newsbrew which I primarily used for my own news-reading needs. After Google launched the Google App Engine, I decided to take a little break from Flex and AIR and rewrite Newsbrew in Python to get a good feel for the GAE experience. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/newsbrew_is_now.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/newsbrew_is_now.html Web Development Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:16:31 -0800 Maptacular was one of the first applications I wrote for AIR. That was back when AIR was in still in alpha, so I didn't have APIs for things like drag and drop or copy and paste. Now that AIR 1.0 has shipped, I decided to rewrite Maptacular to to have the functionality that I originally envisioned. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/maptacular_20_a.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/maptacular_20_a.html Apollo Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:43:59 -0800 I did a screencast of an Exchange calendaring application I wrote for AIR. It's one of the most useful applications I've written so far, and probably the most popular within Adobe. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/lineup_an_excha.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/04/lineup_an_excha.html Apollo Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:39:14 -0800 I got my own certificate for signing AIR applications a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I'd share my experience in order to help others more easily navigate the process. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/03/tips_on_getting.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/03/tips_on_getting.html Apollo Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:48:45 -0800 Apprise is an RSS aggregator written for AIR. Watch the screencast, check out the source code, or install Apprise right from here. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/03/screencast_of_t.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/03/screencast_of_t.html Apollo Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:06:57 -0800 One of the biggest benefits of AIR is that applications can be written to easily function whether online or off. This article will tell you everything you need to know to reliably determine not only if your application is connected or not, but also whether it can reach the services it requires. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/03/detecting_netwo.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/03/detecting_netwo.html Apollo Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:12:19 -0800 If you're reading my blog, I'm going to assume that you already know what AIR is. Rather than tell you what you probably already know about AIR, I'd like to mention a few things that people might not have realized yet. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/what_you_might.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/what_you_might.html Apollo Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:38:40 -0800 It's amazing enough that I'm writing desktop applications using web technologies like Flex, ActionScript, JavaScript, and HTML, but to be able to deploy them with no changes across Mac, Linux, and Windows is seriously revolutionary. The idea that I can actually go back to using Linux day to day, and still be able to do AIR and Flex development is very liberating. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/air_development.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/air_development.html Apollo Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:14:50 -0800 I keep forgetting how to do this, so I'm going to blog it once and for all. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/transparent_htm.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/transparent_htm.html Apollo Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:31:18 -0800 If you've started building an AIR application, you probably noticed that your application icons don't appear when launching your app via ADL. Fortunately, I've found an easy way to work around this issue. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/how_to_make_app.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/02/how_to_make_app.html Apollo Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:50:12 -0800 The most important part of my job is writing AIR applications, and I've written quite a few. In addition to applications, my team and I have written a great deal of reusable ActionScript library code (Amazon S3 APIs, Exchange APIs, etc.). Everything I've written is completely free and open source. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/01/update_on_my_ai.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2008/01/update_on_my_ai.html Apollo Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:45:03 -0800