Adobe released Air today, the Rich Internet Application runtime that lets run web application technology on the desktop.
I have written some flex apps that I am planning to release as Air apps. Adobe has lowered the price for Flex Builder to $249. You can upgrade for as low $99 if you have a license for Flex Builder 2.
I guess I am not cool enough for a Pownce invite. If anyone has an extra Pownce invite, I would like one.
Saw this article on Digg today. This Wired article talks about how Apple is adding a new Animation API to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). The important part of this article is that animation is starting to become a more important of the user experience.
I was watching some of the interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview yesterday from the D5 conference. Bill and Steve got a question if Mac OS X and Windows applications are dinosaurs compared to new browser based applications.
Steve Jobs made a point that he thought there is room for these applications that are made to run on the desktop, but can use Internet base services. He gave an example of a Google Maps application that runs on the iPhone. He said it works better than any browser based application.
Adobe is Open Sourcing Flex and the Flex SDK. This includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers. It also includes the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript Libraries from the SDK.
Here is the link to the Labs page.
I ordered the Apollo Flex Developers pocket guide from O'Reilly books when I read about it on Mike Chambers' blog. It finally arrived yesterday in my Mailbox.
I have not had a chance to read the whole yet, but it is a pocket guide, so it should not take long to read. Thanks to Mike Chambers, Robert Dixon and Jeff Swartz for writing the book.
Yes, I listen to podcasts. I was listening to Diggnation this weekend, the companion podcast for the Digg.com web site. For those not familiar with this site, it was started by Kevin Rose of Tech TV fame as a way for users to vote for which stories get promoted to the front page of the site.
I read about this on Ben Forta's blog. Adobe is renaming Flex Data Services to LiveCycle Data Services.
Adobe has put a pre-release version of Apollo on Adobe Labs. The Labs page for the pre-release has links for the runtime and the Apollo SDK.
I have been pretty good to sticking to my New Year's resolutions in the past. This is not because I have some great resolve, but because I pick easy goals. For instance, "I am going to buy a new laptop this year".
I was reading Jen deHaan's blog about the second day keynote. I was happy to read about Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen's comments.
