Last night the Rocketboots conference room was packed. Danny Dura showed us the new Flex 3 features and also gave an overview of what will be coming with AIR 1.0.
Click here to see the Flex 3 new features.
After seeing what AIR is capable of I’m feeling sorry for Multidmedia Zinc.
I got really excited with AIR, though I have been using some apps, like twhirl… I’m actually writing this blog post with an AIR app, it’s an Adobe AIR Sample “Bee” on labs and it includes the source code.
** UPDATE **
I couldn’t manage to publish with BEE, I was getting a malformed XML error from the publish XML-RPC command. Anyway, the BEE App looks a quite good considering it’s a labs sample. I reckon mixing it up with buzzword would be awesome and also adding drag and drop functionality to publish images. I might look into the source code and give it a try.
Here’s a small video that I took with my mobile at the beginning of Danny’s preso (automatically converted from mobile .3gp to flv by flashCMS):
** UPDATE **
Thanks Joshua for pointing out the slides from the tour by Ben Forta.
January 25th, 2008
Everyone is blogging about Apollo, now that it’s out. So I downloaded it and gave it a try. The first sample I ran, was the PixelPerfect.air app. This is the first screen I get:
WTF? …
Ok.. So it has some kind of security “feature” that tells you:
“Hey, if you click install, I’m not responsible if I delete your hard drive or read your emails”
BTW that shield looks pretty much like the Windows Firewall icon.
Anyways, I managed to get a bit of courage and click install. The app works as expected but I still feel a bit disturbed, not knowing if it’s deleting anything, or sending my credit card details through the network. I still have to read the docs to understand a bit more. So I will be updating this post with my findings.
I still don’t get why the big Hype?
MDM Zinc can also produce “cross-system” installers for Windows, Mac and Linux. Zinc also has alpha transparency, socket connections and much, much, more…
The only great advantage of Apollo I see at the moment, is that it’s free.
I’m not the only one that doesn’t see the “wow” in Apollo. Here are a couple of links:
Ricard Cabello
Alessandro Crugnola
I have this mixed feeling where: “I hope Apollo doesn’t destroy what MDM has achieved, but I also wouldn’t like Apollo dying like Macromedia Central…”
March 21st, 2007