ISBN: 9788184046441    Publisher: Shroff/o'reilly Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 460        Language: English

The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios often encountered when using Adobe AIR to build Rich Internet Applications for the desktop. Thoroughly vetted by Adobe's AIR development team, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices and more. If you want to learn the nuances of Adobe AIR to build innovative applications, this is the book you've been waiting for. Thoroughly vetted by Adobe's AIR development team, Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices and topics that web developers and application designers inquire about most. The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and scenarios you may encounter using Adobe AIR to build Rich Internet Applications for the desktop. It's an ideal way to learn the nuances of Adobe AIR, with practical solutions you can use right away and detailed explanations of why and how they work. These recipes will help you: Build an AIR application with Flex, Flash or HTML and Ajax. Create a database and connect it to your application. Put together native menus for PCs and Macs. Work with the Service Monitor Framework. Utilize the Adobe AIR Update Framework. Create branded desktop experiences with custom chrome and custom application icons. Distribute your AIR application with the Seamless Install Badge. And more Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook includes dozens of recipes from rising stars in the AIR development community-David Tucker, Rich Tretola, Marco Casario and Koen De Weggheleire-along with the best solutions posted by visitors to the Adobe AIR Cookbook community website hosted by Adobe and O'Reilly. If you're ready to expand your skill set with Adobe AIR, this is the book you've been waiting for.
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S. David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Flex and AIR application. In addition, he is an avid blogger and writes primarily about Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex and ColdFusion at David tucker .Net . David is the author of the Lynda.com series, AIR For Flash Developers and he is also the lead author of the upcoming O'Reilly publication, The Adobe AIR Cookbook. When he isn't staring at a computer screen he loves to play guitar and experiment with audio recording. Marco Casario has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste, a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices Moby Mobile and You Thru are representative of their recent work. Koen De Weggheleire is a faculty member of the Technical University of West-Flanders (HOWEST), department PIH-Multimedia and Communication Technology (MCT) where he teaches Flash Platform Solutions (Flash, Flex, AIR) with a smile. Koen recently was an author on the book Flex for Developers, Data Driven Applications with PHP, ASP .Net , ColdFusion and LCDS (friends of ED). At the moment he is very busy, writing the book Advanced AIR applications (friends of ED) which will be also published later this year. As the Adobe User Group Manager for Belgium Belgium Adobe User Group and Adobe Community Expert, Koen is heavily addicted to the community and inspires the community by his blog at New Movie Clip and by speaking at several (inter)national events (Adobe MAX, FITC, Flash belt, Flash on the beach, MCTKring, user groups). He coordinates the yearly Belgian multimedia conference Multi-Mania where 800 people come together to learn from industry experts and to share knowledge. When there is still some time left you can find Koen doing freelance Flash Platform consultancy on advanced award-winning Rich Internet Applications. When Koen is not talking Actionscript you can find him producing music, collecting goodies, eating pizza or renovating his 100 year old house. Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Inc. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2
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