http://blog.kevinhoyt.org On the desktop, on the web, on the device ... On the Platform Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:27:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ryan Stewart and I are crazy about GPS and geospatial information. We both actually carry a Trackstick device wherever we travel which records our adventures. The data file can be accessed via USB as any number of formats, but it is usually XML-oriented. Of course we’re both ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/06/24/monitoring-long-running-transactions-with-flex/ Ethan Malasky, from the Adobe AIR engineering team, joined on AIR Tour Europe crew for the first week of the second leg to present on security in Adobe AIR. As an engineer on the AIR team, Ethan can talk about the security model in a way few others can, ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/06/17/ethan-malasky-on-security-in-adobe-air/ It is pretty common these days that Flex developers come from traditional programming backgrounds. This means that more and more, many developers leveraging the Flash Player, have never worked with Flash CS3. It also then means that many Flex developers aren’t always familiar with common Flash authoring techniques. ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/06/13/flex-masks-and-collaboration/ I've been using Twitter for a while, and while I can appreciate the ability to see what my friends are doing, I was never really compelled to use the service. Something just seemed missing. Then I was introduced to Brightkite. What Brightkite adds to Twitter is geographical/geospatial data, and I'm ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/06/02/brightkite-blog-sidebar-widget/ There’s an old demonstration we used to show for Flex Data Services, now LiveCycle DS, that pushed data from the server to the client to be charted. More modern incarnations of this can still be found as samples included with LiveCycle DS and BlazeDS (Trader Desktop). The original ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/05/20/data-push-with-cfthread-and-livecycle-ds/ During the AIR Europe Tour event in Brussels, Belgium I was approached by an attendee with a technical question. He wanted to drag and drop video content from the desktop (or presumably other source), and drop it into his application. After the drop operation, he wanted to size ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/04/09/fitting-native-windows-to-content/ Many of my Adobe AIR demonstrations show the concept of “script briding” between JavaScript and Flash libraries (i.e. SWC files). Using this feature, JavaScript developers can leverage existing work done by Flash developers in areas that were previously not feasible in the browser. It’s important to recognize however, ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/04/07/plotkit-and-flash-media-interactive-server/ En route between Madrid, Spain and Paris, France, Lee Brimelow and I got into a somewhat philosophical conversation around why the HTML features are important to Flash developers. The obvious standout is in being able to render HTML content in all its glory. Is there anything beyond that ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/04/02/javascript-for-tabular-data-with-flash-cs3-and-air/ As I was hanging out in Madrid, getting acclimated for the AIR Europe Tour, I started thinking about what I was going to present - specifically around script bridging. In the United States, I just talked about how Flash and HTML are separate, but can be integrated. I ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/03/31/compare-and-constrast-interface-versus-integrated/ Among my favorite features of Adobe AIR is the ability to directly invoke ActionScript 3 classes from JavaScript. The out-of-the-box examples of this are the network detection classes which for JavaScript developers comes in the form of a Flash SWF file. I recently completed a Flex-based project that used David ... http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/03/04/simple-zip-viewer-with-javascript-and-air/