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)