I just installed the Flickr Upload Demo plugin for the Adobe Lightoom SDK to quickly see how the integration with Lightroom looks.  I gotta say, I’m pretty impressed.  While, I’ll admit I’m not a massive power user of Flickr, and the Flickr plugin included in the SDK is only for demo purposes (it requires you’re [...]

To read the article, click First look: Flickr Upload Plugin Demo from the Lighroom SDK.

Adobe released the beginnings of the Lightroom SDK today in conjunction with Lightroom 1.3.  I eagerly downloaded the 1.3 meg SDK as I’ve been waiting for this for awhile.  The manual is 96 pages.  There’s an API document (html based), and three sample plug-ins, including the programmer favorite, Hello World.  For now, the SDK only supports [...]

To read the article, click Finally, the beginnings of an Adobe Lightroom SDK.

An article of mine, based on a previous blog entry, has been posted to the Adobe AIR Developer Center for Flex.  Read about Building Flex and Adobe AIR applications from the same code base.  The Adobe Developer Network version goes into more detail and has a pretty UML diagram to make it all sensible.  Check [...]

To read the article, click Article on compiling Air and Flex from the same code base posted to Adobe DevNet.

Now that the AirDerby deadline has passed, people are starting to show off their cool applications.  I’ve been to a few sites that have an “Install Now” badge (like the Adobe AIR Sample Gallery).  These badges allow the user to click on a link and both the AIR runtime and AIR application will be installed [...]

To read the article, click Is the Adobe AIR "Install Now" Badge on Web Pages a Bad Idea?.

Worked late last night to solidify the functionality of FOTOBlendr, my entry into the Adobe AIR Derby.  It’s an application for quickly building photo collages with community shared templates (in progress), as well as a free form tool using custom borders and slapping images on a Collage Canvas.
Currently, it supports the ability to grab images [...]

To read the article, click AIR Derby Entry: FOTOBLendr.

A little rant here.  I know Adobe AIR is new sexy and everyone’s trying to build apps that run naively on the desktop, but please, if you’re not making use of local filesystem, native windows, drag-and-drop, SQLLite, native menus, or any other of the useful AIR APIs, you should really consider not releasing it as [...]

To read the article, click Use Adobe Air Only When Flash/Flex Doesn’t Suffice!.

Today, I decided it would be easier for me to demonstrate my AIR application to end users if they could just go to a link on a website.  However, getting AIR code to compile into a Flex SWF file, isn’t as simple as I initially thought.  Naturally, there’s the additional APIs that AIR allows the developer [...]

To read the article, click How to compile both Flex and AIR Application from the same codebase..

In my quest to have high-quality content in my news reader, I’ve found ten must-have blogs. I tried subscribing to a Technorati search for Apollo/Flex, but it generates 100s of articles to read, mostly of low-quality news re-postings. It has taken me awhile to soak up the full Flex development community, so I [...]

To read the article, click In 30 Seconds: Ten must-read blogs for the Adobe Flex/AIR Developer.

As an alternative to SOAP, XML-RPC, etc., REST stands for Representations State Transfer, and it provides simple, platform-neutral data exchange using the HTTP transport.  You’ve been hearing about it a lot from Ruby on Rails guys (as of Rails 1.2 built-in APIs exist for exposing all your models to the web with a line or two of [...]

To read the article, click In 30 Seconds: A Quick Guide to RESTful Web Services.

I’m really fired up on Adobe Apollo right now. I think Adobe’s Apollo has the potential to be a lot more than a tool allowing current web developers to write rich Internet applications. With a bit more functionality, I see it as a total competitor against all those old Visual Basic and newer .NET WinForms [...]

To read the article, click Adobe Apollo Wish List.