The fine folks over at 360 Conferences are soliciting our input to help shape the future of the 360 Flex conferences. If you’ve ever been to a 360 Flex or if you’re simply and opinionated conference attendee please take a minute to complete the short 3 question survey.
A friend of mine IM’d me with a link to this hilarious video, done in the spirit of the Apple Mac VS. PC ads. Now don’t read to much into my posting this on my blog, I like both of these technologies and I’m not choosing sides here. I just like funny when I see it. Video after the jump… Read more…
Eclipse Fast View is a very handy feature that enables docking and undocking of Eclipse views. If you consistently find yourself looking for more room in Eclipse then Fast View is for you. The screencast after the jump demonstrates Fast View in action. Read more…
Ted Patrick, during the 360 Flex keynote, announced that the next Flex 3.0 beta will be available in October. While he didn’t go so far as to specify when in October I’m hopeful that the timing will coincide with MAX. In addition Ted announced that Flex 3 and AIR will ship in parallel sometime “very early in 2008″.
I just arrived at 360 Flex (I’m in room 1209) and I’m going over my schedule for the conference. The session topics and speakers are outstanding and I’m having a hard time deciding. Of all the great sessions one in particular stands out to me and I want to point it out here; it’s “Practical Patterns in Flex” by James Echmalian.I’ve had many a Flexy conversation of the last few years and the topic of Design Patterns seems to come up regularly. There’s a real need for knowledge when it comes to implementing design patterns in Flex so I’m happy to see this session on the schedule.
Creating an AIR express install badge is relatively simple. Adobe has done all the heavy lifting for us, our part consists of a little prep work and configuring some Flashvars. It is our part that I want to focus on in this tutorial.
What you will need to create a badge:
I’ve got 6 Pownce invites to give away. As usual, the first 6 comments will get them. Please don’t forget to leave me either an email address or your blog URL where I can find an email address.
If your web server refuses to serve-up your shiny new AIR app, the problem just might be the MIME type or lack there of. Mike Chambers posted on this topic awhile back and I bumped into it again yesterday (how quickly we forget!) so I thought I’d blog it for my own sake and yours.
The correct MIME type for AIR apps is:
application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip (sheew that’s a mouthful!)
Consult the documentation of your preffered web server for instructions on setting MIME types.
Let me preface this by saying I’m a typical guy, I don’t read a lot of directions, especially beta directions. I’m usually too darn excited to play with whatever the new toy is. All this is to say what I’m covering here might well be documented somewhere. I just haven’t found it yet.
I was wandering around Flex Builder 3 today (6/11/07) and noticed that my beta copy expires in 29 days. At the time I didn’t know whether to be excited at what the short time span implied or disappointed at the short beta. With a 30 day beta window I would hesitate to give Flex Builder 3 a serious run.
Not to fear though, if you enter your Flex Builder 2 serial it will extend your trial out another 112 days for a total of 142 days from the day you install. Just in time for beta 2 maybe?
For those of you that have been suffering night terrors ever since you passed on the opportunity to attend Apollo Camp San Francisco, redemption is at hand.
Mike Chambers just twittered/announced the onAIR Summer Bus Tour. Looks like a motley crew of Flex, AIR and Javascript developers are going to pile into a 12 person Prevhost bus and travel to 18 cities over July, August and September. They’ll be hosting free developer conferences for anyone interested in learning more about Adobe AIR.
Checkout the onAIR Tour web site, it has quite a bit of info even at this early date. They’ll have a “Live From the Bus” feed (oh that should produce some interesting entertainment!) and there’s even an API for the Tour.
I’m excited to see that my nearest “big” city of Portland Oregon is on the tour schedule. Hopefully some of my peeps from COWPU will join me on a trip over the mountain in July.
