During the MAX Japan keynote we announced that Adobe AIR has been installed 100 million times since it's release less than a year ago! We also announced that Flash Player 10 had been installed on 55% of computers in its first two months! TechCrunch also just reported the story.
Lee Brimelow has been watching too many James Bond movies. Or he's wishing that he'd been recruited by The Agency at MAX. Or he's trying to get in shape to replace Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible IV. Or ... Lee is planning on hiding copies of Create Suite 4 Master Collection (valued at over $3500)...
Michael Chaize is an Adobe Consultant in France, and he also teaches Flex in a school in Paris. He recently ran an "AIR Idol" contest for his students, and the apps they built are really impressive. The students have also published the applications they developed during 2008. Good stuff!
I previously mentioned Amethyst , SapphireSteel 's upcoming Flex Visual Studio plug-in. SapphireSteel has just posted a demo of their Visual Designer , an interactive Flex page layout UI that will be part of Amethyst Professional.
Fellow platform evangelist Lee Brimelow is a die-hard Flash user. But even Lee acknowledges that sometimes Flex is the best tool for the job, and he has just posted a video tutorial , targeted at Flash users, on getting started with Flex.
TOP GUN (formerly WebManiacs) is Fig Leaf's new 3 day training event covering ColdFusion, Flex, and AIR. Top Gun runs June 8th-10th in Washington, DC, and is limited to 100 participants. Registration is now open, as is the call for papers .
TheServerSide (a popular Java community site) is running a story by Brian Kotek entitled Using The ColdSpring Dependency Injection Framework for ColdFusion .
Flex Camp Orange County is scheduled for Saturday, January 31, 2009, at Boeing in Huntington Beach, CA. The speaker lineup has been posted, and includes fellow Adobe evangelist Kevin Hoyt . Seating is going to be limited to 150 people, and registration is now open.
EcoDrive is an AIR based application that uses data collected by your Fiat car to help drivers adjust their driving style so as to improve fuel efficiency. The app was shown during the keynote in MAX Milan. Andrew Shorten and Serge Jespers recently spent some time with Fiat and with AKQA who built...
I love Fireworks . I've recently started to use Photoshop for some projects. But for day to day use, for resizing pictures or adding drop shadows or doing quick crops or batch resizing ... Fireworks is so quick and clean and simple. But what about you? Do you use Fireworks, and if yes, how? Where...