Adobe Switchboard

Adobe posted a preview release of Switchboard today on their labs site. Switchboard allows for communication from AIR applications to CS3 applications. Such possibilities! Anyone who has a chance to play with it feel free to post examples here.

Adobe Open Screen Project

Last night Adobe announced the Open Screen Project initiative.

“The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes.”

Very cool stuff. Too bad Apple isn’t on the list.

AIR resource links

Check out this amazing list of online AIR resources.

X vs. O; Seminar Source

I just wrapped up my seminar for Adobe Developer Week 2008. While there was no cat killing bunny rabbit this time around, I did create a number of small exciting demo applications for Flash developers to start to get their hands dirty with Adobe AIR.

For those of you that did attend, I hope you enjoyed it and that you see that it takes very little effort to get started with AIR. And that AIR is very powerful. And can be very fun.

As soon as I have a link to the recording of the seminar I’ll supply it.

UPDATE
You can see the recording of the session here. Registration may be required. Sorry about the poor audio in the beginning…

Source
X vs. O (right click and Save As).
Powerpoint Slideshow

I’m going to use this post as a venue for answering a lot of the questions I was asked regarding AIR. Read on for answers to some of the common questions I was asked.
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eSeminar March 25th on AIR

I will be a part of Adobe’s Developer Week 2008. The topic of choice? Adobe AIR and Flash CS3 once again. The session is on Tuesday, March 25th from 1PM - 2PM PST (that’s 4PM - 5PM EST).

Building for Adobe AIR in Flash CS3
You don’t need to know Flex to build Adobe AIR applications. The Adobe AIR Plugin for Flash CS3 affords those comfortable working in Flash the opportunity to create compelling content for the desktop. In this seminar, we’ll go through installing and building a simple application, including demonstrating some of the new powers bestowed to developers.

Sign up! It’s free, doesn’t require airfare or hotel accommodations and you get to hear my pretty voice.