Adobe AIR 2.6, MonoMac 1.0, cross-platform is not dead yet

By tim, on March 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

It is a busy time for cross-platform toolkits. Adobe has released AIR 2.6, and reading the list of what’s new you would think it was mainly for mobile, since the notes focus on new features for Apple iOS, though AIR is also a runtime for Windows, Linux and desktop Mac. New features for iOS include

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March 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: .net, adobe, apple, flash, google, mono, professional, software development | Leave a comment

Adobe AIR is user-hostile compared to native apps says BankSimple CTO

By tim, on January 17th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Alex Payne, CTO at BankSimple, has written an analysis of Adobe AIR from the user’s perspective. The scenario: his team was looking for a an alternative to Campfire for group chat, and selected HipChat. They liked the features of HipChat, but not the desktop app, which is built using Adobe AIR:

My team experienced a

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January 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: .net, adobe, c++, java, professional, silverlight, software development | 2 comments

Adobe aims to fill mobile vacuum with AIR

By tim, on October 26th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Today is day one of the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. In this morning’s keynote CTO Kevin Lynch focused firmly on devices – both mobile devices and living room devices including Google TV. There was a nod to HTML 5 in the opening demo, a prototype of a new product called Edge which is

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October 26th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: adobe, mobile, professional, software development, web authoring | 3 comments