Topic: Tutorials

AIR 1.5 encrypted SQLite database — how to use it, best practices, and new projects

Posted November 18, 2008 1:30 am
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Life at Adobe, Projects, Tutorials, Writing, local SQL database

Over a year ago I described a potential area of concern for using a SQLite database with an AIR application — because all apps use the same database engine, any AIR app can read any other app’s database (as long as it can find the database file).
As you may have heard among all the news […]

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360|Flex slides for “AIR SQLite: An optimization conversation”

Posted August 22, 2008 5:16 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Flex, Frameworks, Presentations, Projects, SQL, Tutorials, local SQL database

Updates (Oct. 30, 2008): The video of my presentation has been posted, so I added a link to it at the bottom of this post. Also, I just learned about another AIR-based SQLite admin tool which looks interesting, so I added it to the list of resources even though it’s obviously not discussed in the […]

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Slides and files for “AIR, Windows, Menus, and the System Tray”

Posted June 4, 2008 4:24 pm
Filed under: AIR, Articles by Paul, Flex, Presentations, Tutorials

As I’ve mentioned before, a couple of weeks ago at the Webmaniacs conference I presented a session titled “Adobe AIR: Windows, Menus, and the System Tray” (and I also presented the same material in a partially different form over the course of two SilvaFUG meetings. The presentation covers those three aspects of Adobe AIR, specifically […]

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New Adobe Dev Center articles (Flash deep-linking and Flash CS3 DataGrid)

Posted November 13, 2007 11:14 am
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Tutorials, Writing

Several months ago I was asked to re-purpose two of my previous articles from this site for publication on the Adobe Developer Center (now renamed as the “Adobe Developer Connection”). The first one was published in September 2007, and the second was just published yesterday. So in a way this is sort of a revisiting […]

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AIR embedded SQL database: What’s new in beta 2

Posted October 9, 2007 4:41 pm
Filed under: AIR, AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, JavaScript, SQL, Tutorials, local SQL database

Now that the roar of MAX is over, and since AIR public beta 2 is now available on Adobe Labs, I thought I’d highlight what’s new in beta 2 specifically around the embedded SQL database in AIR:

Synchronous database operations
Schema API (database instrospection)
Additional data types
Other new documentation
Bug fixes

Synchronous database operations
From the various public and internal feedback […]

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Problem (and solution): Any AIR app can read any other app’s databases

Posted June 21, 2007 11:06 am
Filed under: AIR, Application Design, Articles by Paul, Tutorials, local SQL database

In a side note on a recent post about the AIR functionality for working with local SQL databases, Tim Anderson raised some concerns about the security model for AIR local SQL databases, that I thought would be valuable to discuss more.
Tim also raises other concerns which aren’t so much issues to keep in mind when […]

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How to: determining when data is edited using the Flash CS3 DataGrid component

Posted May 1, 2007 2:06 pm
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Tutorials

Note: a version of this article was posted on the Adobe Developer Center in November 2007. That article is based heavily on this one — essentially I took the text here, and revised a few sentences and word choices for clarity. However, if you’re interested in the “latest” version, you can find it here: “Detecting […]

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“Introduction to ActionScript 3.0”: slides, files, and recording

Posted March 15, 2007 9:47 am
Filed under: AS3, ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Opinions, Presentations, Tutorials

A few weeks back (February 21, 2007) I gave a presentation titled “Introduction to ActionScript 3.0” to the Indiana University Flash Users’ Group. The bulk of the presentation was a comparison between previous ActionScript versions and ActionScript 3.0, looking at syntax, the object model, event handling, how code runs in Flash Player, and more. I […]

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Loading a cfform SWF into another SWF

Posted March 6, 2007 1:27 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, ColdFusion Flash Forms, Flash, Tutorials

I haven’t written about ColdFusion Flash Forms in a while (I’m a Flex user now that you no longer need a server to create the content). However, this morning I got an interesting question from “trifide” that I hadn’t considered before, so I’m making a brief return into cfform land:
There are many attempts to loading […]

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XML-RPC client updated

Posted January 10, 2007 1:12 pm
Filed under: ActionScript, Articles by Paul, Flash, Projects, Tutorials

In case anybody follows my site just to get updates on my XML-RPC client library… I’ve just released an updated version of my XML-RPC client library project.
The library is still in ActionScript 2.0—I haven’t finished porting it to ActionScript 3.0 yet, although I’ve started.
This release (.3 beta) contains a single bug fix. In anticipation of […]

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