Mike Chambers was kind enough to offer me a chance to speak at the Vancouver leg of the Adobe onAIR bus tour.
I'm just doing a small session on my 15-minutes-of-fame-are-now-over DryerFox hack, as an example of no-chrome (or would that be self-chromed) app development.
This is a free event, and everyone is invited, but you need to register. I'm expecting the schwag-o-meter to be pretty high, so it will be worth it. I hope to see you there. Did I mention the free-as-in-beer beer? 'Nuf said.
I was keen to check out some of the Silverlight capabilities on my MacBook Pro. I heard that our friends in Redmond were doing all their demos on a Mac first. Apparently none of them were running the latest 10.4 release.
Here is my out of the box experience ... Doh!
What, is the installer just doing a string compare on the versions?
Since when is 10.4.10 < 10.4.8?
OK, so it's a beta, and they'll probably have a patch soon, but it's a pretty nasty out-of-the-box experience.
Oh well, back to AIR-land.
[Update] There is a workaround posted on the MS-site, but it is clunky.
... but my wife could have told you that a long time ago. :-)
Adobe has renamed the Apollo runtime as "Air" (Adobe Integrated Runtime), and I like the new name. Apollo was a good code name, and "Air" is a nice product name. It also helps that the file format for Apollo bundles was already called a ".AIR" file.
I've been involved with enough products over the years to see my fair share of silly product names ending up with "designed by committee" feel to them. (Ironically, best described by this in-house Microsoft ad parody).
Congrats to the Air team.
New stuff on Adobe labs today:
Air beta installer: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html
Flex 3 beta: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/
Enjoy.
And while presenting is a nice boost for my ego, what I really hope to accomplish is:
I hope to see you there. Drop me a note if you plan on attending.
Technorati Tags: 360|Flex, Apollo, DryerFox, Flex, Browser Hack, WebKit
I've been swamped over the past couple of weeks, so I thought I'd post a re-run link to a video I made from the recent Red Bull Flugtag event in Vancouver.
I condensed the 3 hour event into a 3 minute music video. I still think the best vehicle was the giant boombox.
There is DryerFox sitting at #6! w000000000000000000000000t! I rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing warms my heart more than the comments of “useless, but I like it!” or “There’s no sense in explaining it; suffice to say that it’s absolutely useless, but we just had to mention it.”
Hooray for pointless endeavors!
DryerFox even beat out Scout from Adobe Labs! (#9 on the list, and an excellent web developer tool in its own right. I used Scout to help me hack-out DryerFox).
It looks like my blog is getting quite a viewer spike from all of this. More than half of its traffic ever is from the last 6 hrs.
[Update 2007/04/09] Wow. I've had nearly 3000 unique visits over the past 2 days. Way more than the 150 visits from the previous 2 months!
Cheers,
Doug
