Christian Cantrell's Perspective on Macromedia server products and web development in general.
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Adobe's Linguistic Services Team recently released a new version of Squiggly -- a free spell checking engine for the Flash platform. This update includes the following features...
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We've had several customers and partners ask us if it was possible to write a secure plugin architecture for AIR applications. Although we always assumed it could be done, I finally decided to give it a try just to make sure. The verdict: not only is it possible to write a secure plugin …
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Still have questions about AIR 2? I talk extensively about AIR 2 (and a bit about AIR mobile) on Episode 99 of The Flex Show.
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I recently released my first science fiction novel entitled Containment, and I wrote most of it using Dreamweaver.
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I've been playing around with Android recently, and I ran into a situation where I needed to take screenshots of applications running on the device (as opposed to on my desktop with the emulator). Most of the information I found on Google recommended that I install a third-party application, but …
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It is possible to set HTML focus from Flash or Flex content in AIR, but it takes a little finessing. Here's how to do it...
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Run the full version of Google Tasks on your Desktop. Give it its own process, its own icon, and its own window.
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In response to feedback from the AIR 2 public beta, we've decided to add four new properties to the flash.net.Socket class.
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There's a little-known feature of ActionScript 3 called labels which can give you better control over nested loops. In particular, labels give you control over the depth of your continue and break statements. Here's how they work...
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How the new storage volume detection APIs work, and how AIR determines whether a volume is considered removable or not.
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Technical Product Manager at Adobe, science fiction writer, and toy photographer. http://www.microkosmic.com
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