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Strongly typed arrays — coming to ActionScript near you

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I’ve been wanting to have strongly typed arrays in ActionScript for a long time. I was pretty excited when I read that it’s part of the EcmaScript 4th edition specification (in the form of the Vector…

Upcoming presentations on AIR Windows, Menus, and the System Tray

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I have a couple of presentations coming up soon, and I haven’t been getting word out as much as I probably should have.

At the end of May I’ll be speaking at the Webmaniacs conference in Washington D.C. (May…

Open Source Flex Visual Graph Library

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A couple of months ago at a SilvaFUG meeting I saw a demo of some graph visualization libraries — the kind of thing you use to create a graph showing nodes linked together according to various relationships. The…

Mozilla Prism: analysis and comparison to AIR

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I wanted to share a couple of links and some of my thoughts about Mozilla Prism (also here), which (from my understanding) is currently a way to take a browser page and isolate it so that it runs in its own window (and…

Adobe AIR 1.0 ships! SQL changes, and other thoughts

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First of all, allow me to clear something up. I am aware that Adobe AIR 1.0 shipped almost exactly a month ago, so this shouldn’t be news to anyone who’s actually interested in it. I intentionally held off on…