Archive for ‘AIR’

License your Flex and AIR applications

If you need an easy and affordable way to secure your application against license sharing and ‘keygen cracks’, Zarqon just may be the answer you’ve been looking for.

A good friend of mine, Cliff Hall, is most known for the PureMVC framework which was inspired by his his lack …

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How to install Adobe AIR on Linux

Download Adobe AIR from the Adobe downloads.

Open a terminal window.

cd to download directory

chmod the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin to 755

su -m

enter password

./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

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Security Soapbox – Decompile Flash/Flex

Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I’ve seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad.

But no matter how many applications or who I’m talking to, I always stress the importance of securing proprietary information. By securing, I mean don’t …

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CFUnited has lots of Flex Training Sessions

One of my CFUnited sessions:
AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3 – http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/235
Here is a little Q&A about CFUnited and me.

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Unemployed? Learn Flex!

Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed.

https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/

Of course there are three restrictions. You must attest that you are:

Unemployed
Using it for personal use
Not using it for commercial …

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Use AMF with JavaScript in Adobe AIR

I’ve been working with Adobe Flex since its beta and have been a long time believer in using Action Message Format (AMF) as the communication protocol. I’ve also been working with Adobe AIR since its beta, but had only used AMF with Flex-based AIR applications. Until now…

I was working on a …

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How to share your Flex code

Sharing your source code is easy in Adobe Flex 2. After a quick glance at the Application class in the Flex API, you”ll find that the viewSourceURL property will allow you to open a new browser window at which your source would be stored. You could point it to a specific file or …

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Adobe AIR Training

Just wanted to let everyone know, the Adobe certified AIR course that I have been building is almost ready. It will be offered as a beta class until the full product release. AIR 1.0 will be released on… ;)

This class is for those who already know Flex and ActionScript, basically you should have experience with …

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AIR Training is coming

My blog has been quiet lately due to a number of reasons, but the #1 reason is that I”m working on the AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex course for Adobe. Having been an instructor for many years and a developer for even longer, this is a great opportunity for me to give back to …

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