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March 19, 2007
Apollo Alpha release link roundup
As you've probably heard, we've released the first public alpha of the Apollo runtime. Woo-hoo!
If you're not familiar, Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. I joined the Apollo team in mid-December of 2006 after working as the Sr. Product Manager for Flash for the last three years.
The resulting coverage of our first public release of Apollo has been overwhelming. I thought I would take a minute to list some links to interesting resources, interviews, demos, and press coverage.
Learning more about Apollo
First of all, if you'd like to know what Apollo is, start by watching the video of Adobe's Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch giving his Apollo overview at our Apollo Camp event last week.
- http://video.onflex.org/2007/03/19/apollo-camp-keynote-from-kevin-lynch/
Read Mike Chambers' LoggedIn article on the Adobe Developer Center
- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/mchambers_apollo.html
Read Kevin Lynch's thoughts on the Apollo alpha
- http://www.klynch.com/archives/000086.html
Read Kevin Lynch's article about Apollo in the Adobe Edge newsletter
- http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/march2007/articles/article1/index.html
Check out the "Apollo for Flex Developers" Pocket Guide by O'Reilly in PDF form on the Adobe Developer Center
- http://www.adobe.com/go/apolloflexpocketguide
Apollo Demos
Watch the video of my 6-minute Apollo demo at the DEMO 07 conference in Palm Springs
- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/videos/apollo_demo07/index.html
Watch Mike Chambers and Christian Cantrell demonstrate two Apollo apps that Christian built in the Edge newsletter
- http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/march2007/video/index.html
Get Started with Apollo
Download Apollo and the SDK
- http://www.adobe.com/go/getapollo
Build your first Apollo app by watching this free training video from Lynda.com, presented by Mike Chambers
- http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?id=378
Read the Apollo Alpha release notes
- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/releasenotes.html
Read the Apollo Developer FAQ
- http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:DeveloperFAQ
Review the Apollo documentation
- http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Documentation
Watch Mike Chambers "Introduction to Apollo" presentation on Apollo at Apollo Camp
- http://video.onflex.org/2007/03/19/apollo-camp-introduction-to-apollo-mike-chambers/
Join the Community
Join the Apollo Coders mailing list to ask questions and learn from others in the community - we participate in this as well
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/
Monitor the Apollo support forum on adobe.com
- http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=641
Track what the community is saying on MXNA using the Apollo smart category
Also track community discussion around Apollo on Technorati
- http://www.technorati.com/search/adobe+apollo|Adobe
Apollo Examples
Apollo sample applications on Adobe Labs
- http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo:Applications
FineTune Desktop - Teknision
- http://blog.teknision.com/?p=8
FotoBooth example - EverythingFlex.com
- http://blog.everythingflex.com/2007/03/19/fotobooth-apollo-edition/
Grabit HTML example - EverythingFlex.com
- http://blog.everythingflex.com/2007/03/19/grabit-html-within-apollo/
Fullscreen Papervision with Transparency example - theflexblog.com, Lee Brimelow
- http://theflexblog.com/?p=18
3D Web Apollo Application - theflexblog.com, Lee Brimelow
- http://theflexblog.com/?p=15
Press coverage
Anil Dash of MovableType goes first because he gave Mike Chambers and I a shout-out :)
http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/news/2007/03/adobe-apollo.html
Michael Arrington on Techcrunch
Robert Scoble on scobleizer.com
Ajaxian >> Adobe Apollo Alpha release
Readwriteweb >> Adobe launches Apollo, alpha version
CNET News.com >> Test flight for Adobe's Apollo
blogs.wired.com MonkeyBites >> Adobe Launches Apollo
GigaOM >> The Coming Apollo vs. Firefox Battle
SiliconValley.com >> Adobe introduces Apollo
Adobe targets developers with Apollo | Channel Register
Apollo Alpha to be released to the public | 901am.com
StartupSquad >> Adobe launches Apollo alpha
MacNN >> Adobe releases Apollo Alpha
ITWorld.com >> Adobe releases first Apollo code to developers
SYS-CON >> Adobe Announces Apollo at AJAXWORLD
Plenty of haters on Slashdot :)
You can also track press via Google News or Techmeme
And I've also been tagging press coverage via del.icio.us with "apollopress" - follow it here.
Posted by mike.downey at March 19, 2007 08:21 PM
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Comments
For anyone interested and concerned with Apollo development a new forum has been launched just for the community, take a look and join in on this new technology--be one of the first to soak it up:
http://www.codeapollo.com
Posted by: Delixe at March 20, 2007 12:38 AM
Hi Mike,
Awesome list! Here is a simple example I put together demonstrating Apollo's ability to write serialized objects to the file system. I thought this would be appropriate to add.
http://seantheflashguy.com/blog/?p=6
Regards,
Sean Moore
PS: Apollo Camp was awesome. Adobe kicks so much booty for hosting the event! Also, THANK YOU ADOBE for the copy of Flex Builder!!!!!!
Posted by: Sean Moore at March 20, 2007 12:14 PM
Hi, I've made my own Apollo 3D test.
It utilizes Google Maps, Papervision3D, and Apollo Alpha HTML component to create the interactive 3D representation of Google Maps (it is draggable in 3D). Actually, any web page can be rendered by this app. There's two options -- planar and spherical view and possibility to load any location.
Posted by: Rostislav Siryk at March 21, 2007 10:24 AM