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The little AIR app we created for the Adobe AIR release got best of show, tied with Buzzword! Check out the article… http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9878909-2.html

Following the release of Adobe AIR, my company, the ichameleon/group, has been working with Adobe and the New York Times on a small AIR demonstration app called SHIFD.  SHIFD is an awesome little app that saves data you see online and you can pick it up on the website, your mobile phone, iphone app or the AIR based desktop app.  The Adobe Air app was written entirely in AJAX wrapped around the Adobe AIR shell.  You can signup for an account at http://www.shifd.com or download some of the free tools at http://www.shifd.com/tools/ Here’s  a great article on SHIFD

Here’s a great little code snippet that shows off the power of AIR and flex.

  bitmapData = new BitmapData(this.width,this.height);
    bitmapData.draw(this,new Matrix());
    var bitmap : Bitmap = new Bitmap(bitmapData);
    var jpg:JPEGEncoder = new JPEGEncoder();
    var ba:ByteArray = jpg.encode(bitmapData);
    newImage = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath("Images/" + fileName.text + ".jpg");
    fileStream = new FileStream();
    fileStream.open(newImage, FileMode.UPDATE);
    fileStream.writeBytes(ba); 

Props to EverythingFlex for this example…

Flex Builder 3 and Adobe Air have been released.  I kind of knew about it already, we developed a sample AIR app for Adobe at my company that I hope you all enjoy.  Have fun with the new AIR people!! 

Well this is an ingenious little idea.  Wrap all of your data access like xml, text and variables into one class.  Pretty slick.  Check it out for yourself.

So I’ve had this Wordpress theme for like a year now.  I’ve just been sitting on it cause I was on the fence on whether or not I really liked it.  So I showed a friend at work and he was like go for it.  And I thought… well, its better than the one I have now so I posted it.  It still needs alot of work.  The portfolio section has a really cool ajaxy interface but its still buggy so I decided not to post it yet.  And I need alot more content for alot of the sections but all in all its a good start to start developing what I need out of my blog.  Hope you like!