Well, I attended the Adobe AIR bus tour in Chicago. I was actually surprised with how beneficial the sessions were in terms of explaining how AIR works with Flex and/or HTML. I was surprised to see Grant Skinner there. He talked about a lot of different ideas and uses of AIR and the general potential, it was inspiring.

I am and will continue to toy around with Flex/AIR and see where it leads. My primary responsibilities are all AS2, so I’m slightly at a disadvantage with time. But nonetheless I will be making it a point to keep with it.

Here are my notes during all the sessions:

(Keep in mind that I am not fantastic with taking notes, I typically will do "keyword writing" when I take note, and they were moving along kind of quick.)

• Features of Adobe Air:
  • File system access
  • Network Detection
  • Notifications
  • Applications Update
  • Drag and Drop
  • Local Database
• Sites to check out:
  • http://airapps.pbwiki.com/
  • http://www.adobe.com/go/air
  • http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/
  • http://onair.adobe.com/
  • http://onair.adobe.com/api/
• Required in all Flex/Air Apps:
  • Application files (.mxml)
  • Application Descriptor file (.xml)
• Why is he showing command line crap for the html air apps?
• Apps to checkout:
  • Aptana (www.aptana.com)

Wow. Frustrating.

For the past 3 months I was under the assumption that my FlashTracer Firefox plugin just stopped working due to firefox updates.

I was right, and wrong. I guess? It just kind of disappeared and wouldn’t show up again under the “Tools” menu item in firefox. No matter how many times I reinstalled the plugin, it just did not return.

So today I got fed up and said “Ok, lets reinstall Firefox and see what happens”.

In short, reinstalling firefox fixed the issue, and now I have my FlashTracer back! Woohoo!

Keep in mind that XRay is much more useful for debugging. But this firefox plugin can also be very very handy!

I had a really good time. Ranging from building Red5 apps, to designer/developer workflow stuff, all the way to papervision3d stuff. Kicked ass.

Still kind of looking on flickr for some relevant pictures of how i remember things, will post when i find!

Nuff said.

Well, *cough* another extended period without posting. I’ve been super busy!

I will be attending the Flashforward Boston conference next week, my first time to go, I’m excited!

I intend on being a sponge in the area of flash developer/design work flows & AS2-AS3 transitioning in particular.

Here’s my schedule:

Day One:

Day Two:

Day Three:

w00t!