AIR Presentation
Categories: AIR, Adobe

An Adobe AIR application that brings the ColdFusion 8 documentation to your desktop that is surprising small, easy to use, extremely fast, and built using the Ext JavaScript library.
Get a quick primer on Gears, the open source project by Google that aims to expose new modules and capabilities for the browser that provide general purpose building blocks for web applications to unlock the capabilities of the local machine in a safe manner.
Interested in Adobe AIR? Check out this brief new technologies demonstration I gave on Adobe AIR to my colleagues at Hamilton College.

In case you haven’t already checked it out, be sure to have a look at the applications available for download at the Adobe AIR Marketplace on Adobe Exchange. What is the Adobe AIR Marketplace? According the FAQ:
Read MoreAdobe AIR Marketplace is a place where AIR developers can publish their Adobe AIR applications for users to download. You can find the Adobe AIR Marketplace at www.adobe.com/go/marketplace.
As I am sure you have probably already heard, the official AIR 1.0 was released, along with an update to the Ext JS framework to work with the AIR application sandbox.
Read MoreI wanted to learn what Adobe AIR was all about, so I created an AIR application with the ColdFusion 8 documentation that utilizes the Ext 2.x library. The application allows you to easily view and search the ColdFusion 8 documentation. Best of all, no need to be online - everything is stored locally in the sqlite database - so it runs extremely fast. There are still a couple of minor bugs, and I am hoping to make some future improvements to the application, so be sure to check back.
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