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Tag Archives: Application Devlopment

Debugging on embedded systems with AIR (including Adobe TV)

One of the projects I was recently involved with had me setup an unsusal enviroment — debugging an embedded device that ran Adobe AIR.  There are not a whole lot of specifics that I can talk about for that particular project, but one of its aspects I can talk about — debugging the AIR and Flex [...]

AIR for TV — The Virtual Keyboard

As I’ve been porting some of my AIR for TV applications over from Flex, one thing I quickly realized was that I was missing a way to get user input.  While AIR exposes all the remote buttons as Keyboard events, there is a real disconnect if you want to accept alpha based input (most remotes [...]

OAuth and Flex/AIR — Making Twitter work again.

Quite a while ago I posted an entry on how to make a quick Twitter Client.  Over the past few months, Twitter decided that basic authentication was no longer the best way to go, and they needed some way to help users protec their accounts.  Their solution is the OAuth protocol, which is now required [...]

Adobe MAX Wrap-Up

So, I’m back from LA, and the Adobe MAX 2009 conference. Just like the MAX tagline of “Connect, Discover, Inspire,” I truly able to accomplish all of those.  This year’s conference packed in a lot of announcements, and gave everybody a good idea of where Adobe is heading in the marketplace.  All of the keynotes and [...]

Know the code you are in…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Detroit Java User’s Group presentation from Josh Holmes on Application Simplicity.  Walking into the presentation, I, along with most of the people that attended expected the typical UX presentation (keep it simple, stupid! among other common slogans), but I was pleasantly surprised at one of the [...]

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