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Air Apps on Lifehacker – freshAIRapps

Jim Priest — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:04:35 +0000

One of the sites I hit daily is Lifehacker. Today I noticed a post about freshAIRapps a directory of

ratings and reviews of many new and new-to-AIR apps

It’s cool to see Air out in the wild and getting some good press! Check it out at: http://freshairapps.com/

Quick update: Appears the site is hosed due to traffic :(

Flex, Air Updates For Linux

Jim Priest — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:09:42 +0000

This weekend I downloaded the Flex Builder Linux alpha, but ran into some issues and after digging around in the forums it was hinted that a new release would be out ‘soon’. Soon turns out to be this morning. Alpha 3 was released today! I’m looking forward to getting home and trying that out!

I also saw on Sean Corfield’s blog that an alpha release of Air for Linux is out too! Sean’s post also pointed to this nice article on Read Write Web discussing Flex and Air on Linux. The article had this nice tidbit:

In addition to AIR and Flex releases for Linux, Adobe announced that it had joined the Linux Foundation in an effort to help “accelerate the growth of RIA technologies on the Linux platform.”

Forta-fied. Ben Forta Talks Flex/Air

Jim Priest — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:07:24 +0000

Last night I attended Ben Forta’s Flex 3 and AIR Pre-release tour in Raleigh, NC. While I don’t do any Flex/Air stuff at work I still wanted to check things out and I’m glad I did. I was really impressed with both technologies and may have to experiment a bit at home with them…

There was a huge turnout, several local Adobe user groups were there, and I’m guessing there were 60-70 people there at least. Ben spoke for about 3 hours (!) and covered quite a bit. A few things I wrote down:

About 50% of the audience had tried Eclipse as an IDE
The crowd was a mix of ColdFusion, Flex, Flash developers and some designers
For some reason I thought Ben was a Mac person but he was using Vista
Adobe is pushing more and more stuff open source – BlazeDS, Flex 3 SDK, etc!
Ben mentioned Aptana had some support for Flex/Air (mxml)
Flexbuilder for Linux was coming (he said there was a firm date but he wouldn’t tell us)
Air client for Linux was a bit behind but would eventually be in sync with the Win/Mac releases…

Overall it was a great presentation and I hope we can get Ben back here again soon. Maybe to demo the new, free, open source, feature laden Eclipse based ColdFusion IDE (hopefully)!