SystemClockChangeWatcher
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in AS3, Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, General | No Comments »When dealing with time sensitive applications (pretty much anything that needs to compare local times and/or remote server time) changes in the system clock can at best make for a bad user experience and at worst provide a means of ...
Adobe AIR is dead… long live Adobe AIR.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Adobe AIR | 3 Comments »I've read a couple of posts today about Adobe AIR suggesting that the honeymoon period for Adobe AIR is over. Sarah Perez Over at ReadWriteWeb asks "Are you over AIR Applications?" citing AIR apps like TweetDeck, Seesmic and DeskTube as ...
Big new release for BBC iPlayer
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in Adobe AIR, Flash, Flash Media Server, General | 2 Comments »Before I go any further if you are interested in the whats and whys of this latest installment of iPlayer functionality then you can do no better than reading Anthony Rose's blog on the subject. Now since I'm not one to ...
BBC iPlayer Desktop Beta – Adobe AIR app
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in Adobe AIR, General | 7 Comments »The BBC have released a public beta of the new iPlayer desktop. This new version allows users on windows, mac and linux to download and watch ondemand content on their desktop. You need to sign up to iPlayer labs to activate ...
Adobe AIR Cookbook example continued
Monday, December 15th, 2008 Posted in Adobe AIR, Flex, General | No Comments »Last week I mentioned that a contribution to the Adobe AIR Cookbook Beta had been published in the O'Reilly book. Since hearing that I'd been included I've been meaning to revisit the code to make on final addition that I felt ...
I’m Published!
Friday, December 12th, 2008 Posted in Adobe AIR, General | 2 Comments »Ok, its not quite a grand as I made it sound in the post title, but I'm one of 6 contributing community authors in the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook published by O'Reilly. What this means is a piece of code I ...
