I was talking recently with Matt Wallace, the Nashville Flex User Group manager, about switching Flash Player versions in OS X. He had found Mike Chambers bash script but was having problems getting Mike's code to work. Matt eventually developed his own solution and while he did an excellent job his utility has a few annoyances that I don't want to deal with.

If you follow my twitter feed you may have seen a tweet I posted this week about getting a trademark violation e-mail from Adobe. I brought this on myself as I submitted twitterAIR to the new AIR Marketplace. Shortly after submitting it the senior product manager for the AIR marketplace e-mailed me the violation note. So, twitterAIR needs to be renamed and I'm fine with it as I have no attachment to the name. In fact, I'm horrible with creating product names hence the original really sucky one.

Ben Forta kicked things off this morning giving a talk he titled "ColdFusion 8 and Beyond." Here are my rough notes on the information Ben covered. He began by discussing the ColdFusion Open Process Initiative which is made up of the following: public bug database public enhancement request system custom advisory board CFML designfeature definitionsspecification reviewsearly release reviews But what comes next in the world of ColdFusion?

The first official day of the Adobe Community Summit was packed full of interesting talks from several key product players. This years summit is my third and every year it seems to get a bit better. The time spent with Adobe folks is invaluable and the information shared allows members of the Adobe community (Adobe Community Experts, User Group Managers, and Adobe Champions) to prepare for the future in ways not quite possible in the past.

I was recently interviewed by Dan Wilson, a zone leader at DZone, about Flex, AIR, and the twitterAIR application I created. The interview has been published and you can read it or vote on it using the links below. Read the article: http://ria.dzone.com/articles/meet-man-who-set-twitter Vote it up: http://www.dzone.com/links/the_man_who_set_twitter_free.

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

Recorded in Nashville, TN at the Flex 3 / AIR 1.0 launch event on 2/25/2008.

Last night the Nashville Flex User Group and Nashville ColdFusion User Group held a special Flex 3 and AIR launch event. We showed the exclusive user group video produced by Adobe which included an inside look at the AIR project and the team behind the release. I gave a presentation on the business case behind Flex and AIR which included info on all the new features of Flex 3 and initial features of AIR 1.0. We had food and drink and celebrated the event with a Flex/AIR cake (pic below).

twitterAIR has been updated for AIR 1.0 skipping right over AIR Beta 3. Not much has changed in the new version though. I squashed a few bugs, got rid of the zip file download (which means I can't track downloads anymore) and implemented a seamless badge install. If you don't have the latest AIR runtime (1.0) on your machine, the twitterAIR installation will install the runtime for you. If you're running an older version of twitterAIR, just use the badge install to update your copy.