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Latest addition : Monday 5 May 2008.

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Adobe AIR - Going Native (ish)

Monday 5 May 2008 by Huw Collingbourne

RIA (Rich Internet Applications) is a fashionable acronym which has now been reversed by Adobe to create AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) - a collection of code and utilities aimed at creating desktop applications using a mix of technologies (HTML, XML, ActionScript and Flash) which had hitherto been confined (well, mostly) to web browsers.

I say ‘mostly' since, in fact it is perfectly possible to embed Adobe's Flash player into a standalone application written in C#, say, or Delphi and program its behaviour using Adobe's Flex framework. But AIR applications don't need to be embedded into other programs in order to operate ‘standalone'. They can be packaged up inside AIR-powered windows so that, in principle, an AIR application can be completely self-contained. Native Desktop Integration The advantages of AIR will (...)
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The Next Big Thing In Programming

Monday 4 February 2008 by Huw Collingbourne

Security and Privacy On Your PC - Free eBook!

Friday 1 February 2008 by Huw Collingbourne

Trends and Developments Of 2007

Monday 3 December 2007 by Bitwise

Eclipse PDT - PHP Meets Java?

Sunday 30 September 2007 by Bitwise

Publish And Be Damned!

Sunday 2 September 2007 by Huw Collingbourne

Dynamic Languages and .NET

Tuesday 1 May 2007 by Huw Collingbourne

Stone-Age Programming and the Death Of The IDE

Wednesday 28 February 2007 by Huw Collingbourne

Ruby Off The Rails...?

Wednesday 31 January 2007 by Huw Collingbourne

Ruby On Rails – The Ten Minute Expert

Wednesday 31 January 2007 by Huw Collingbourne

The Great OOP Debate

Monday 1 January 2007 by Huw Collingbourne, Dermot Hogan

Selling Your Software - 2BrightSparks Interview

Tuesday 5 December 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Free, Free At Last!

Thursday 30 November 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Selling Your Software - Object Arts interview

Tuesday 7 November 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Selling Your Software

Tuesday 31 October 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Selling Your Software - Gurock Software Interview

Tuesday 31 October 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Selling Your Software - SOCK Software Interview

Tuesday 31 October 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Podcasting - Something To Shout About?

Thursday 31 August 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Podcasting Secrets - LifeType

Thursday 31 August 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Podcasting Secrets - FeedBurner

Sunday 27 August 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Podcasting Secrets - Loudblog

Monday 21 August 2006 by Huw Collingbourne

Podcasting Secrets – ChinesePod

Friday 18 August 2006 by Huw Collingbourne


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