They’ve got categories for Ajax, Flash, Flex, Silverlight, GWT/Gears, AIR and pretty much anything you can think of so it’s pretty easy to target exactly what you’re looking for.
I was having a problem with TweetDeck in that it kept giving me an error when I tried to log out and log in as a new user. Unfortunately uninstalling and reinstalling didn’t fix the problem because it retained my user data. You’ve probably seen similar behavior in some of your AIR applications. The problem is that when you uninstall an AIR application it doesn’t get rid of the encrypted local store data. Here’s the solution.
Basically if you want to completely blow away an AIR app you need to go into the “/Users//Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS”, find your application based on the id and then blow it away. On Windows it’s “C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Adobe\AIR\ELS” (ELS stands for Encrypted Local Store).
Hope that helps anyone who’s having preference/clean uninstall issues with AIR.
Aurora is a new “inspire” concept by Adaptive Path and Mozilla to give people a look at what the browser looks like in the future. It’s awesome. The user interface is great, it has lots of important visual queues, and it enables real time collaboration and user generated content. Basically, it’s everything the Flash Platform enables today but Mozilla and Adaptive Path have done a great job of showcasing the vision. It actually bums me out a little bit because this is exactly the thing that I’d love see from Adobe and have us show at MAX.
This is the kind of web we’re enabling. From the very beginning we focused on immersive user experiences. As we’ve evolved the platform we’ve started to focus on collaboration – things like real-time voice, video chat, as well as instant messaging. Adding that social communication aspect to the web is going to become incredibly important because it takes web-based communication to a whole new level. Adobe has the right mix of design, technology, and forward thinking to bring that kind of experience to life.
I love the examples they give. I could see myself uploading GPX data and doing a collaborative session with my wife on a hiking trip that we just got back from. We could mix and match photos, videos, and GPX data to create a really cool trip that we could share with friends and family. They’d get a seamless experience that showed off the visuals, geographic points, and time.
The whole fabric of the web is about collaboration. It’s about working together, making yourself heard and sharing things. That’s the appeal of social networking and it’s one of the reasons that so many people have been drawn to Flash – it’s a HELL of an expressive medium. Hats off to Adaptive Path and Mozilla. It’s a great vision….and it could be here today if you looked long and hard at Flash.
Widgets Lab noticed that Wikinvest has released some interactive stock charts and that they look like they’re built in Flex. I’m a big fan of stock charts and while we’ve got a bunch of charts out there (Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance), I haven’t seen good ways to embed those interactive charts onto a blog. But now you can in all of the Flash/Flex goodness:
Om Malik has a small interview with Kevin Lynch about a bunch of things Adobe is doing. There isn’t a whole lot there that people following the company don’t know, but there is some good “company strategy” stuff. There is also some good info about what we’re planning for the mobile space.
There’s a pretty good write-up on AIR for Linux developers in Linux Journal. It goes through most of the intro stuff to AIR that you should be familiar with and also what to expect if you’re using the alpha (because there are some things missing). I’m loving watching the Linux community get excited about AIR. We’ve got Flex Builder for Linux and you can use pretty much any JS tool you want, so it’s relatively easy to do development and deployment all on Linux.
I should have posted this a long time ago for a couple of reasons but if you haven’t seen it, you should check out RIAJobs.org. It’s a very good resource for both finding work and finding people to do work – something that anyone familiar with the RIA industry knows can be tough. They’re also one of the sponsors for mine and Coté’s podcast, RIA Weekly.