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Flash on the Beach ‘07 Almost Sold Out

( AIR (Apollo) and Actionscript and Flash and Flex and News )

With only 3 weeks to go until Flash on the Beach I just received some great news. The conference is almost sold out! They only have 80 tickets left, so if you haven’t bought yours yet, you better hurry as they are going fast.
It looks like this years Flash on the Beach is going to [...]

Adobe UK - The Creative License Tour

Hot off the press. Adobe UK are heading out onto the road to do their countrywide Creative License Tour. The tour consists of 6 tracks over the day in 9 locations (London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Dublin and Belfast).
So all in all a pretty comprehensive line-up of products. To find out more and [...]

Pownce…I’ve got invites

OK, I’ll keep this short :D. I have 4 Pownce invites on a first come, first served basis.
Leave a comment below (I moderate so don’t panic if it doesn’t show up immediately). Include your email address and I’ll ping you an invite.
Deal done - enjoy :D

AIRDerby - Now this is a prize…

I personally never really get involved with online competitions. It’s not because I don’t fancy my chances. It’s more due to the fact that living in the UK most (if not all) competitions run by companies like Adobe are only available to residents of the US and Canada.
However, and this really is a biggy, [...]

Adobe Integrated Runtime (Apollo) beta on Labs

Surprise two for Monday. Not only is Flex Builder 3 on labs.adobe.com but so is the new beta of Apollo, now know as Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR geddit :P).
You can grab the new beta here
Double enjoyment for Monday and I still haven’t had a coffee :D

The ‘obligatory’ web browser in Apollo

There is nothing big or clever about this, but it made me laugh at how easy it was to get a very basic web browser working in Apollo. So for those interested here is a very basic ‘web page loading application’
Get the AIR file here
Here is the source

Apollo is available on ‘labs’

After all those presentations and massive amount of speculation, Apollo is now available on Adobe labs. For those who haven’t yet had the chance to try it out go grab it NOW!
At the moment Apollo is only available for Flex Builder 2.0. For alternative Flash content you will likely have to wait for Flash CS3 [...]

Thanks to Mark Anders, Mike Chambers & Mike Downey

( AIR (Apollo) and Development and Flex and News and Personal )

Well I’m back from my brief visit to San Francisco. I was there for a bit of R’n’R and to shoot off some more shots of Alcatraz for my image collection. Anyway while I was there I got the opportunity to pop by the Adobe building on Townsend and say “hi” to Mark Anders, Mike [...]

Apollo live from the LFPUG

Well if you want to see a presentation on Apollo from Andy Shorten (Adobe) then point your browser to: London Flash Platform Group LIVE
We’re broadcasting now! (19:33 GMT 24/08/2006)
Enjoy :P

Apollo or XULRunner - And where’s WPF/E?

I came across a few interesting articles and documents recently and it got me thinking more about Apollo. As most of us are already aware Apollo is a runtime in development at Adobe allowing the deployment of Flash platform, HTML and or PDF applications onto the desktop. Thus allowing them to operate just like native [...]