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If you need an easy and affordable way to secure your application against license sharing and ‘keygen cracks’, Zarqon just may be the answer you’ve been looking for. A good friend of mine, Cliff Hall, is most known for the PureMVC framework which was inspired by his his lack of love for the Cairngorm framework. [...]

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Download Adobe AIR from the Adobe downloads. Open a terminal window. cd to download directory chmod the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin to 755 su -m enter password ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin

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Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I’ve seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad. But no matter how many applications or who I’m talking to, I always stress the importance of securing proprietary information. By securing, I mean don’t put [...]

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One of my CFUnited sessions:
AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3 – http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/235
Here is a little Q&A about CFUnited and me.

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Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ Of course there are three restrictions. You must attest that you are: Unemployed Using it for personal use Not using it for commercial or production use UPDATE: The program [...]

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I’ve been working with Adobe Flex since its beta and have been a long time believer in using Action Message Format (AMF) as the communication protocol. I’ve also been working with Adobe AIR since its beta, but had only used AMF with Flex-based AIR applications. Until now… I was working on a JavaScript-based AIR application [...]

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Sharing your source code is easy in Adobe Flex 2. After a quick glance at the Application class in the Flex API, you”ll find that the viewSourceURL property will allow you to open a new browser window at which your source would be stored. You could point it to a specific file or zip as [...]

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Just wanted to let everyone know, the Adobe certified AIR course that I have been building is almost ready. It will be offered as a beta class until the full product release. AIR 1.0 will be released on… This class is for those who already know Flex and ActionScript, basically you should have experience with [...]

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My blog has been quiet lately due to a number of reasons, but the #1 reason is that I”m working on the AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex course for Adobe. Having been an instructor for many years and a developer for even longer, this is a great opportunity for me to give back to [...]

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