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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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onAIR tour part 2 almost sold out / 26 days to go

by Serge Jespers on 07. May, 2008 in Events

At this moment there are only 37525 minutes left for you to register for the second leg of the onAIR tour. That’s 26 days before we start travelling from northern to southern Europe. In case you forgot, we are doing this onAIR tour by train and there are some pretty challenging routes we have to take this time. We start in Stockholm on June 2nd and end in Milan on June 13th. I don’t know if my evangelist buddies have already seen this but our first train ride, from Stockholm to Berlin, is going to be 15 hours. Our train-ride from Madrid to Paris was a good rehearsal but this one is even longer. I’m already stacking up on extra batteries etc and I’m gonna make sure my 3G card works. Maybe we should carry a power generator on the train so we don’t run out of juice :-)

I remember that in one of his videos, Lee Brimelow says that “Europe isn’t that big”. I’m pretty sure he’s gonna change that statement by the end of this tour.

Again looking forward to this tour… We are visiting some really beautiful cities, some of which I’ve never been to myself. We’re doing Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich and Milan. If you weren’t aware of this yet, we are also giving away a bunch of goodies and for the second part of the tour we’re getting everyone a copy of the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers book and a copy of the RIA ActionScript 3 printed reference guide. They weren’t ready in time to take on the first leg but don’t worry if you came to the first part of the tour, you’ll receive an email soon with details on how you can get them as well. In the meantime, you can download these books.

Oh… Did I already mention the tour is almost sold out? So if you haven’t registered yet (it’s free by the way), now is the time to do so! Register at onair.adobe.com. Hope to see you in Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich or Milan!

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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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First leg of onAIR tour sold out but Paris capacity expanded

by Serge Jespers on 20. Mar, 2008 in AIR, Events

onair tourJust over a week ago, I asked you guys to register for the Brussels stop of the onAIR tour because we (us Belgians) were in last position. I am happy to announce that we actually doubled the registrations last week and have actually sold out now! So thank you all for creating the buzz and for registering! I’m looking forward to see you all there!

Actually, all events in the first leg of the tour are now sold out but we have expanded the capacity for the Paris event. Paris is only about an hour and a half from London and Brussels with the train so that may be an option if you couldn’t make it to those events. And there’s also the second leg of the tour which starts in Stockholm on June 2nd.

The tour starts in exactly 10 days now and I have to say that I’m really looking forward to it. There’s something very appealing to taking the train all across Europe with your fellow evangelist friends and I’m sure we’ll have lots of fun and a ton of great stories to tell and we all have Flip camera’s in our backpack so I’m pretty sure there will be also be a lot of incriminating video footage to share :D

UPDATE: Paris has sold out again.

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Calling all Belgians: We are in last place in onAIR-tour registrations

by Serge Jespers on 11. Mar, 2008 in AIR, Events

onAIR train pixelI know… The title is a bit dramatic but really… Being Belgian, it obvious that I would like to change that. So, if you haven’t registered for the free onAIR event in Brussels, now may be a good time to do so :-) So head on down to the registration page to register for the April 7th event with Mike Chambers, Kevin Hoyt, Danny Dura, Andrew Shorten, Oliver Goldman, Andre Charland, Lee Brimelow, myself and special guests Peter Elst and Nicolas Lierman.

Check out the full schedule of the day. Hope to see you there!

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