Free Flex and AIR resources? We can haz!

Free AIR and Flex training. Bring it on!

Fellow Vancouverite Duane Nickull informed me that the sessions he was running at both MAXen (MAXes? What is that the correct pluralization? Where's RubyOnRails when you need it!) are now available online.

The AIR Boot Camp session is intended to give you an overview of how you can leverage your existing Web developer tools to create desktop apps using the AIR platform, including the recently released AIR 1.5 runtime.

The Building Flex service clients session gives you an overview of consuming web services from a Flex app, with links to preconfigured WAMP and MAMP stacks to test against.

Also, make sure to check out the great Tour De Flex app, available both as a standalone AIR app, and an eclipse/FlexBuilder plugin.

Don't be fooled by the default view in Tour De Flex. At first glance Tour De Flex looks like a less full-featured version of the Flex Style Explorer, but check out that combo box that says "Flex Core Components". Other choices will reveal live apps and sample code for consuming well over a dozen popular clouds APIs like Twitter, Flickr, and Amazon, as well as demos/samples for Google/Yahoo/Mapquest maps.

Got something cool to share? Submit it to the Flex.org form and it may show up in the next publish phase.

C U @ PV3D Vancouver this weekend!

I'm excited to get some Papervision3D training this weekend from John Grden. We might decide to make him an honourary Canadian and buy him an extra vowel or two for his last name.

Obviously, the appropriate Canadian letter would be a 'U', since we have so many of them lying around these days. "Color?" Never heard of it. "Colour?" Yeah, baby. That's more like it!

Anyway, if you're from out-of-town and want to blend in, the correct pronounciation is "Vang-couver". Yup, us locals add a nearly silent "g" into the city's name.

I hope to see you there.