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When you must "verify" a new technology, the best thing to do is find an application to write and to struggle to achieve it. This way you learn a lot in a short time. You have to have a goal, in short! I state that I have nothing to do with BlogBabel Italy. Some people may think that I work for them ... Absolutely not! The reason why I chose to accomplish this is due to the fact that I had the code in Flash (Actionscript 3.0 latest release) and I wanted to see what was going on re-writing the application in AIR / HTML. And then, now, I am attached to this "smash" the ranking BlogBabel
To achieve this "first" AIR application after numeose tests, I only used Dreamweaver. BlogBabel Rank totalemte is written in AIR / HTML. To install the runtime download Adobe AIR and click here .

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Great news for AIR developers. It was finally released version 1.0 ! End of beta then! New SDK (vital for building in areas such as Aptana Studio , Eclipse , etc ...) and update extensions Dreamweawer and Flash CS3 Professional in Italian ! Until yesterday, in fact, it was not possible to develop an AIR application with Flash CS3 Profession in Italian. Now the new menu for creating RIA AIR is available and working! You can find all the updates (security fixes and extensions) directly on the site.

Another novelty is the official launch of Adobe Open Source , a new website that will track all the latest in open source, not just Adobe. This becomes, then, the point of reference for developers that will entice contributions with interesting demos, source code and more, such as support for open source projects Tamarin and BlazeDS .

Soon we will see how to develop a simple AIR application with Flash and Dreamweaver!

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Some, quite rightly, argue about the Adobe AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime (formerly Apollo) offered by Adobe. What are we talking about? After all AIR is still a beta ( the latest release is 12/12/2007 - Beta 3 ) and its success, we'll see whether including or not depends on many factors.

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It is available to update the Aptana IDE , the Web development environment that supports Adobe AIR and Apple iPhone . Among the changes include the improvement of the section with the update of the PHP Code Assist functions on both parameters. Also improved the "color" of the code. Added support for latest Ajax frameworks including prototype.js and jQuery . Also improved handling of Javascript.

For the complete list of new features click here .

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Adobe releases AIR (formerly code-named Apollo), which stands for Adobe Integrated Runtime, and then, "successor" of Apollo. You can download the beta version released on June 11 here: AIR downloads

At the same time it is issued to build 0.2.8.15171 Aptana IDE development environment dedicated to exceptional developer HTML, PHP, Rails, Javascript, and now with support for AIR.

The Aptana IDE is a free, open source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP / SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

A strong competitor of Adobe Dreamweaver, at least for the coders, since it is a free software integrated, inter alia, with Eclipse . Mysteriously, then, Adobe has released an extension to build Adobe AIR applications Dreamweaver CS3 only, leaving users of version 8! Aptana, therefore, is an excellent alternative to Dreamweaver CS3, for those who want to experience the development package for Adobe AIR!

However, in Aptana the lack of a WYSIWYG environment, excellent in Dreamweaver, the potential decreases, as already mentioned are mainly addressed in the Code. Dreamweaver, in particular with the release of CS3, then offers a complete and perfect with Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3 and other Adobe Creative Suite tools of brand new, feature completely absent in IDEs like Aptana.

The Aptana IDE, is comuqnue, is spectacular, understandable and all the vital features for a programmer, project management, previews installed on browsers, auto-save, file comparison, display line numbers, configurable editor, collapse of the "tagging "Embedded XML, high-level debugger, support Italian and much more.

Good document management allows dynamic access to the W3C specification, and JavaScript libraries (best known as Web 2.0 Dojo, JQuery, Mootools, Yahoo (YUI) and Scriptaculous, all integrated into a single environment despite proper documentation is taken directly from the network!

Aptana is available for Windows (XP and Vista), Macintosh, Linux and Eclipse Plugin for. Many features are available on the site, including a Aptana.tv .

In short, for those who have already developed or those who want to start developing applications in Adobe AIR ( here you will find a video tutorial to begin developing Adobe AIR applications ), Aptana is a functional and comfortable, well-integrated network, and accompanied also by Plugins and extensions, some for particular browsers like FireFox for debugging.

Last note: Some functions, such as the plugin for AIR, require the installation of the Java runtime !

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Why switch to Apollo to display HTML and dynamic content when a browser already allows it? Why use Joost Net TV to see if a browser already allows it?

Why has not the producer of two simple browser functions within them:

• Windowless windows
• P2P Object

Windowless windows

This simple feature would make the most of the HTTP connection and make it really useful browsers. To open windows (pop-up in practice) with only the title and no border, just in case in transparency, increase the production of widgets to be exploited with the normal browser, like what he does now Apollo . With a careful study on the safety (as I think it is now the only reason for this limit) would open up very interesting scenarios.

P2P Object

As we all know by now all browsers support the object XMLHttpRequest , which has given rise to an endless amount of so-called Ajax applications. This object can be accessed via JavaScript, is able to provide an HTTP channel - parallel - scriptable client for both IINV and receiving data.
Sooner or later, as anticipated in various other blog, Adobe will insert a P2P in Flash. Why not do the same thing in the browser? An object of this type together with Windowless features allow you to create applications like Joost-without installing anything on your machine, ensuring cross-compatibility worthy of the Internet, thereby increasing the efficiency of production (now Joost is developed for each system operational, which is quite heavy - both in money and time - in fact, the beta will follow ...).

RSS FEED short windows with text, audio and video from the place where we want on our desktops, in true W3C standards. Open TCP channels are directly from JavaScript, with endless possibilities of data exchange. Clearly, the will is little and the "crime" is high, hackers, spam and phishing are lurking and moves of this kind terrorize a bit 'all ...

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Adobe has finally released the alpha version of Apollo . We are still far from the final version, but you can check out some of its features with the demo applications (. air) proposals online. The installation ( Apollo runtime ) of this Alpha weighs about 6Mb - for Windows. The Demo (Apollo sample applications) do not weigh even 600Kb. After installing the Apollo runtime will seem nothing changed on your PC (not added any links on the desktop or taskbar), even though you have installed - in fact - the new browser from Adobe! See Web2.0: Adobe is trying to Apollo?

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It is available online version of Firefox 3.0 Alpha 2 , code-named Gran Paradiso. Among the features announced (the final version is expected in late 2007) we can use the browser off-line mode. All this reminds Adobe Apollo, which, although not present it as your browser, it evokes the essential features.

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Apollo is the code name (for now) of an ambitious project in the world for Adobe RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) and Web 2.0, including Ajax. Someone remembers Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Central to someone else. There is, also, who sees in Apollo simple union - or opportunity - to bring together elements of Flash and PDF (something which has already been feasible with Flash Paper)!

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