I figured, as I have spare time today, that I’d start documenting the outcome of visiting the Adobe onAIR tour 2008. It was a pretty big event, in terms of the broad range of sessions, so it looks like I’m going to have to cover it in a few posts, rather than one very long one. I may not document it all, as a couple of them were talking pretty fast, and I’ll try to find as many resources from there as possible.
I am also aware that Simon has two …

Hi.
My name is Simon Shand and I’m going to be writing here from now on along with Lawrence.
So to get started I’ve got a pretty cool thing to talk about, and I’ve already talked about on my other blog and that news is that Adobe has released Adobe TV!

This is a really quite cool site, I think it was built in Flex, but I could be wrong..
I love the site though more for its contents that the design, it has tonnes of programs about most of the Adobe products. It’s …

And another of the many innovations I have (and have yet to) stumble across is the new declarative (more on that later) language from Microsoft. This is what appears to be a direct aim at combating Adobe’s hopes with AIR, and Flex both in one. The similarities become even more obvious when you see more in depth details on the way the script is coded.
For those who don’t know, Adobe AIR stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime, which is a way for existing designers or developers devigners (thanks Lee) that work …

Some would argue that the recent drop plummet in the purchase price was due to a lack of response from their target audience, as the competition would shorten the workload, as well as requires less capital to purchase in the first place.
It is also important to note that in what appears to be what is an awareness campaign, Adobe ‘is reaching out to the educational sector’ by releasing Flex Builder 2 free, to anyone who can verify that they are still in educational of some kind. They even offer it …