Tag Archives: flex

Updating AIR apps is easy!

By Arni Maack | Published: September 15, 2008
When the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) first came out I was immediately interested to see that what it would offer in the form of update management. Sure enough there was support for it to the point where you could initiate an installation of an update once it has been downloaded. That in itself I thought [...]
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Foundation for a great AIR application with Flex

By Arni Maack | Published: September 9, 2008
After having used MDM Zinc for a few years to create RIAs or “desktop flash applications” I was very excited to see an Adobe wrapper for the flash platform. I think Adobe has done a good job with it and an excellent job supporting it with various add-ons such as the update framework, the Badge [...]
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Flex Architecture, Cairngorm vs component events

By Arni Maack | Published: September 1, 2008
When we started looking for the right framework to use at my place of work we looked at a few different frameworks that were out there. PureMVC and Cairngorm stood out as the main candidates and since we need to outsource things on occasion the natural decision was to go with due to it’s popularity [...]
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