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Come work with me!

At Moov2 we have a lot of really exciting projects on the go and in the pipeline. We’re expanding our skill-sets and opening up more and more new opportunities. Coupled with one of our developers taking sabbatical we have a couple of new positions available and are looking for some hyper-enthusiastic devs to join our [...]

You’re doing handlers wrong

Okay so it’s a link bait, sensationalist title, but that fact I’ve recognised that fact makes it okay yeah? Anyway like I said you’re doing handlers wrong… or rather, to stop with the hype-generating, FUD-like statements; If you’re waiting for RPC/Async handlers to return in order to update your application’s interface then allow me to [...]

Adobe AIR MIME type for IIS

Another quick post for future reference, the IIS MIME type needed for Adobe AIR .air files: extension: .air mime-type: application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip

In-browser AIR functionality

So, after my previous post moaning about how I think AIR functionality would be ideally suited in-browser, I did a little digging and it turns out you might kind-of be able to acheive some of it! I’ve yet to test the feasability of this, but according to Jeffry Houser, local connection works between browser loaded [...]

Adobe AIR: Is breaking out of the browser the right next step?

If you read my blog regularly, you’ll know I was quick to jump on the AIR trip. I do still very much like AIR, have seen some good AIR apps and believe it has some good potential. I’ve played with a couple of AIR apps, have seen several AIR presentations (even presented one) and made [...]

Are people still after Pownce invites?

Aparently there are still some people after pownce invites, if so I have 12 so leave a comment and i’ll send you one.

What is an AIR database?

As mentioned in my last post I want to explain to the un-database-initiated what a database in AIR is and how it differs to other databases you might have heard of or experienced. Database Support In AIR Adobe have recently added support for databases in AIR through support of SQLite. From the SQLite website: SQLite [...]

AIR Databases 101 – Flash/Flex developers haven’t had this database stuff before!

In a recent conversation with Neil the significance of database access in ActionScript dawned on me. Whilst this feature has undoubtedly been driven by requests from those with previous experience of databases, there must be a huge amount of Flash/Flex devs who’ve never had to worry themselves with the wonderful world of DBMS’s (“Database Management [...]

Apollo AS3 Learning Tool

This is a great example of community driven resources: David Rorex’s AS3 Tip of the Day Apollo App This app provides you with a simple interface for working through a set of posts on Kirupa by Senocular who’s written some excellent stuff for learning AS3. It removes all the ‘noise’ posts and caches locally leaving [...]

The “Enterprise Widget”

I was just having a conversation with Ryan (through the medium of geek – aka twitter and blog comments) and we established a concept of “enterprise widgets”. It’s not really a new concept rather than a different outlook on the “widget” concept. It is also something that Apollo is an ideal platform for developing. In [...]