Dot 1 Release of AIR

HELLO WORLD,

On Monday, June 16th Adobe AIR 1.1 was made available for download on the Adobe.com site. To learn more about this dot release you can take a look at this FAQ (PDF);

http://www.adobe.com/go/air1-1faq

Items of note:

Matt Chotin has posted an article about developing Flex applications with AIR 1.1

The Flex SDK is including support for AIR 1.1 in the 3.0.2 stable build. You can download it from here.

Adobe AIR 1.1 documentation can be found here.

I find that it is a worthwhile upgrade.

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Top Ten Reasons to Attend WebManiacs!

HELLO WORLD,

Have you registered to attend the WebManicas Conference coming to Washington, DC May 19th - 23rd? Why Not? Well maybe this will help you …

My Top Ten Reasons To Attend WebManiacs!

#10 - Over 100 separate topics covering ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, various frameworks, and other technologies.

#9 - A Ben Forta keynote on day one.

#8 - Several two hour hands-on sessions held in their computer lab.

#7 - My kids took all of tee shirts I got from the last conference I attended.

#6 - Very close to public transportation, many restaurants, and our nation’s capital.

#5 - My presentation titled; Consuming and Creating RSS Feeds (CFManiacs Track)

#4 - My presentation titled; Tweens, Behaviors, View States, and Transitions (FlexManiacs Track)

#3 - My presentation titled; Using Custom Events (FlexManiacs Track)

#2 - A “boat load” of presentation materials and source code that can help jump-start your development efforts.

And The Number 1 Reason to Attend WebManiacs!

#1 - Surround Yourself With Dozens Of Colleagues And Industry Experts Who Love To Talk About Battlestar Galactica And LOST As Much As You Do!!

See ya at the conference … then I’ll see ya at the pub.

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Another Just Killing Time Game - Jump!

HELLO WORLD,

I do a lot of traveling across the US (I’ve driven across the US 3 times already) and I love to stop at small town restaurants along the way. Once you leave the big cities and head for the country-side, the one constant I find at these small country restaurants is the table game Peg Solitaire. I can spend hours playing that game.

Now Just Killing Time Games has release a version of the game called Jump! - built using Adobe AIR. They also provide an on-line version (written in Flex) that allows you to try it on-line before downloading and installing it.

Check it out at http://www.justkillingtimegames.com/.

It looks like the site is still a work in progress … but aren’t we all

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