Adobe has just announced a press release indicating we've had over 25,000,0000 installs since February 2008: Adobe Systems Incorporatedtoday reported that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe® AIR™ in the first six months since its release. Numerous Fortune 500 companies, in addition to start-ups across a variety of industries, have deployed hundreds of AIR applications to engage with customers, partners, and employees in new and compelling ways.

I spoke at Web 2.0 Europe last year and it was great. The 2008 edition of Web 2.0 Expo will happen in Berlin on 21-23 October. Unfortunately I won't be there this year due to my speech at The ActionScript Conference in Singapore. But our Managing Director in Comtaste will be there. Web 2.0 expo is not only a cool conference where you'll learn a lot of technical and marketing stuff concerning Web 2.0, but it's a great opportunity to make networking.

Everything is set up. My flight, my hotel and my partecipation at the first edition of The ActionScript Conference 2008 in Singapore. I'm pretty excited because I'm sure I'll meet new developers that I've never meet before.

Using the NativeMenu and NativeMenuItem classes supported by Adobe AIR APIs is pretty easy to create native menu. But one cool thing very useful in a desktop application that works with local files is a Open Recent Files menu item features. This menu item acts like a history list of opened or created file. The NativeMenuItem class has the data property that allows to create a reference to an Object for a menu item.

I'm planned to spend this weekend to study the new FXG 1.0 specification released by Adobe on the Open Source site. As you probably know, FXG will be used by the next Flex 4 to improve the designer/developer workflow for skinning elements. In Flex 4 in fact there is a brand new graphics tag library that uses FXG and that follows very closely the Flash Player 10 rendering model.

Adobe has announced the mobile version for Photoshop.com . Photoshop mobile will allow users to upload, view, and share photos online from your mobile devices with Windows Mobile system. It seems that Symbian Flash Lite devices will be supported :( It's a shame that the first consumer-oriented mobile application developed by Adobe won't support Nokia (Symbian) Flash Lite enabled mobile devices but only Palm devices.

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I'm glad to announce that I'll be part of the FlexCamp London next week (28th August) as a speaker. The agenda of the event looks damned cool and the speakers are a a warrantee of quality: Andrew Shorten, Mike Jones, Peter Elst and many others. Peter and I will have a speech talking about SQLite support in AIR and some best practices to optimize Flex development for local data storaging.

This is my contribute to your excellent and funny job Jeremy ;) Have a look at this cool Flex Gangsta Rap !

If you've missed it find the time to have a look at this video tutorial on AIR development with Linux by Mike Chambers: Getting Started With AIR on Linux - In this tutorial Mike Chambers explains the basics of how to get setup with AIR on Linux. Mike gave you an overview on how to install Adobe AIR on Linux system and how to install and unistall AIR applications under Linux.