Yesterday, I attended the Air Tour in Madrid since there was no planned landing in Portugal. I went with a bunch of folks from our local RiaPT group.

Here are the videos

Keynote (Enrique Duvos)

Building your first Adobe AIR application with Adobe Flex (Mike Chambers)

Building your first AIR application with HTML and JavaScript (Kevin Hoyt)

Leveraging HTML and JavaScript within Adobe AIR (Kevin Hoyt)

Deploying and Updating AIR Applications (Serge Jespers)

Adobe AIR API Overview (Daniel Dura)

Data Intensive Enterprise AIR Applications (Enrique Duvos)

HTML / JavaScript desktop applications on Adobe AIR. (Chris Brichford)

Using JavaScript Frameworks in AIR Applications (Andre Charland)

AIR Conditioning (Lee Brimelow)

For those who might have stumble on this issue where Authorization header cannot be set when using URLRequest(which is described here), the fix is coming in the Flash Player Security Update which will be released in April.

The problem will be solved through a new meta tag that must be defined in the crossdomain.xml. An example can be found here.

The full article is on DEVNET.

I just got the confirmation from Matt Chotin that I was approved as the first Flex SDK Contributor.

After Adobe open sourcing the SDK, I tough I could give my small contribution by providing the framework resource bundle translation to pt_PT. I already have translated few of them with João Saleiro's help (which is one of the RiaPT founders as I am).

Adobe still figuring out how this work flow will work for locales but I'm ok with anything they'll come up with.

Anyway, I hope to see soon more people applying and contributing with their patches.

PS: To be honest, I tough that Doug would be the very first one to apply so he would contribute with a patch for his border style Panel bug but I just realized the bug is already fixed.

In last couples of days I've being thinking about this, why should we only take advantage of AMF communication between a Flex/AIR app with our back-end? Now that the specifications of AMF data format were released on Labs and a lot of AMF3 implementations are already all around ( CF, Java, .NET, PHP etc), why not take advantage of this data format for server-to-server communication?

If I have a CF server and I need to consume for example data from a PHP platform, why not doing through AMF if they use AMFPHP? Or instead of consuming a .NET webservice, why not call a WebOrb endpoint?

The cf team could eventually enhance the cfinvoke and createObject to support this.

Something like

Toughs?

Next 19th February will take place the first Portugal Flex Camp.

RiaPT worked along with Adobe Systems to setup this event and we finally made it. Yesterday we launched the Registration page and we already have 83 attendees registered.

Well have 5 speakers:

Serge Jespers
Enrique Duvos
Carlos Rovira
João Fernandes (Me)
João Saleiro

Really looking forward to meet everyone.

I just came from our 1st year celebration party from our local RIA group which is dedicated to all RIA platforms.

We had:

-Welcome and a brief presentation of who we are

-Presentation of Silverlight by 4InWeb

-Explaining the DisplayList in AS3 by João Gonçalves

-Flash CS3 integration with Flex by João Saleiro

-Showcase: Asko / "My first application in Flex" by Luís Costa

-Introduction to Cairngorm by ME

-And Now for Something Completely Different by Paulo Moreira

-Showcase: FlexFuel by João Saleiro

-Showcase: "Rules Configuration" by Alexandre Xavier

During the event I could finally announce that Adobe is coming to Portugal for our first Adobe Flex Camp event.

February it will be and we are eager to have the Flash Platform evangelists Ryan Stewart and Serge Jespers with us.

It was 5 hour event which ended with a nice birthday cake and champagne.

This feature request is about MARS integration in Flex applications. This API would allow not only to create MARS documents but also visualize them within our applications.

From Labs:

No doubt that this is a must have. If you have similar needs in your applications, you should vote for it.

Thanks Nick Collins.

I just posted more videos. This time Peter Elst's presentation.

Enjoy it.

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I just posted a couple of videos of Ely's presentation at MAX Barcelona. The roadmap looks pretty cool doesn't it?

Enjoy it.

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