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Updating AIR applications

by Serge Jespers on 16. Jun, 2008 in How-to, onAIR Tour

My presentation at the On AIR tour through Europe was about signing, deploying and updating your AIR applications. If you didn’t make it to the tour or just want to read up on these topics, I wrote three separate posts about them on the train somewhere between Prague and Munich.

This is probably the most important step to take when you are building your application and it should probably be the first thing you do. Let’s say someone found a bug in your application and you fixed it in a newer version. How are you going to tell users about that bug-fix if you don’t have an update mechanism in place? AIR has everything on board to make updating applications a breeze, both for you and the user of your application.
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Deploying AIR applications

by Serge Jespers on 16. Jun, 2008 in How-to, onAIR Tour

My presentation at the On AIR tour through Europe was about signing, deploying and updating your AIR applications. If you didn’t make it to the tour or just want to read up on these topics, I wrote three separate posts about them on the train somewhere between Prague and Munich.

You created your AIR file… so now what? The easiest thing to do is to upload the file to your server and put a link to it on your website. But this is not very user-friendly for whoever is going to download and install your application. In some cases, when your server isn’t configured to handle AIR files, it may even fail altogether. That’s why we created the concept of install badges. Install badges are basically a small Flash application that handles download and install in such a way that it becomes very easy for the end user to install your application.
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Signing AIR applications

by Serge Jespers on 16. Jun, 2008 in How-to, onAIR Tour

My presentation at the On AIR tour through Europe was about signing, deploying and updating your AIR applications. If you didn’t make it to the tour or just want to read up on these topics, I wrote three separate posts about them on the train somewhere between Prague and Munich.

First of all, why is signing an application important? Easy. When your application is unsigned or signed with a self-signed certificate, the user will get two red icons on the install screen. The first one is related to your code signing certificate. It’s telling you that the “publisher is unknown” which is very normal since we have no idea who actually signed this application.

When you do get a code signing certificate and sign the application with it, the icon will turn green or in some cases yellow. The yellow icon will appear when you are using the file I/O API.

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On AIR tour part 2: 2000km of 3500 done

by Serge Jespers on 07. Jun, 2008 in Events, onAIR Tour


Some 2000 kilometers (about 1300 miles), about 31 hours on 5 different trains and about 10 battery charges later, we arrived in Prague today. Well… Actually, I’m writing this on the train from Warsaw to Prague so we’re not actually there yet and we still have about 5 hours left on this train but I can’t actually post this until we do arrive in Prague. But anyway, I thought this would be a great time to look back at last week.
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The weekly blend – Flash Player 10 examples

by Serge Jespers on 26. May, 2008 in Flash, Weekly blend, onAIR Tour

UPDATE: Please note that some of these demos were created for a beta version of Flash Player 10. For updated examples, please check http://www.webkitchen.be/2008/10/22/my-favorite-flash-player-10-apps-and-examples/

This week a collection of remarkable Flash Player 10 examples. Some of these I showed at Flash Forum Konferenz in Koln and Multi-Mania in Kortrijk. Obviously, you need Flash Player 10 installed to view these examples. Can’t wait to see what else the Flash community will come up with! If you found a cool example, don’t hesitate to leave a comment with the URL.

  • Alternativa3D: 3D platform created in Eastern Europe Russia. Mind you, this is not even using the GPU acceleration yet! [link]
  • Pixel Bender: Eric Dolecki shows off the performance of Pixel Bender [link]
  • Flanger effect: Joa Ebert experiments with audio effects in FP10 [link]
  • 8Bit audio: FP10 now does 8-bit audio. Again from Joa Ebert. No MP3s playing! This is all generated on runtime [link]
  • 3-band EQ: Flash Player 10 can do live equalizing [link]
  • Dynamic sound: Keith Peters making some noise [link]
  • Cut and edit MP3: Benjamin Dobler also got bitten by the FP10 virus. This example allows you to edit MP3 files in the browser [link]
  • Mix WAV files: Another example from Benjamin. [link]
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How to stay up to date on the onAIR tour escapades

by Serge Jespers on 01. Apr, 2008 in Events, onAIR Tour

We just arrived in Paris (our second stop for the onAIR Tour Europe) after what must have the longest train ride ever. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a longer train ride in my entire life. So… Imagine that feeling when you just came off a really fast rollercoaster ride. You step out of the car and you still feel the earth move under your feet. Now imagine doing that for 12 hours and you get a bit of an idea how some of us are feeling right now. Like Kevin Hoyt Twittered earlier, it feels like the whole building is moving.

Most of use Twittered as much as we could on our cellphones… right up until those batteries died too. Mike Chambers even thought about coding in the toilet since that was the only place where there was a powerplug on the train.

Anyway, if you want to keep up to date with our escapades on the road in Europe, here’s some links to help you:

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A Picasso in my hotelroom toilet?

by Serge Jespers on 30. Mar, 2008 in Events, onAIR Tour

Euhm yeah… Just being a bit silly. I just arrived… well… I arrived about 2 hours ago but it takes ages to get a video uploaded on YouTube… But anyway, I arrived in Madrid and while having a look around the hotel room, I noticed that there is a Picasso hanging on the wall in my toilet. Seriously. And it’s totally the real thing. Well… The hotel lobby has an exibition of “Falsificaciones legales”. So they are exhibiting legal falsifications and I’m sure we can also categorize this under “Falsificaciones legales”.

Here’s the video proof of the “totally real” Picasso in my hotel room:
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43H_G3v5bXY]

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