Well, now that I have finally sent out all of the books from the Ajaxian post (I ended up sending out nearly 400), I now have 100 Adobe AS3 RIA Reference Guides to send out. As you can see from the picture, I will be sending these out and only have 100. If you would like one, send me your mailing info (the info will only be used to send out the guides). You can find more info on the guides here and here. Update : Wow. That was fast. All of the guides are now gone.

Adobe AIR has been out for a couple of months now, and we are really seeing a lot of good apps being released. So, which AIR apps do you find yourself using the most? For me, I use the following daily: TweetDeck Has added a TON of value to twitter for me (especially their summize integration) Pandora No more accidentally closing a browser tab and losing my music Adobe Desktop Directory (internal Adobe directory app) So, which AIR apps do you find yourself using the most?

Read about it here and here. Congrats to the eBay team that worked on this.

Just a quick fyi, but we have just posted a technote with a list of error codes and their meaning from the ADT tool (inside the Adobe AIR SDK). You can find the technote here.

Just a quick note, but I update turl last night. turl is a command line tool for Mac OS X that uses online services to shorten urls. There are a couple of minor changes, but the main new feature is that I added support for bit.ly. Here are the changes: Added support for bit.ly Made bit.ly service default (urltea appears to be down / gone) Add some error checking to make sure a URL is returned You can download turl, and the source from here.

One of the issue mentioned in our the Adobe AIR 1.1 release notes is an issue where Firefox is not used as the default web browser on Vista. From the technote: On Windows Vista, web pages opened from AIR applications (this is done by calling the navigateToURL() method) may not open the default browser; it always opens Internet Explorer. To workaround this problem, go to Start > Default Programs > Set Program Access and Computer Defaults.

One of the ActionScript 3 libraries that I use in just about every project I work on is the as3corelib library. This is an ActionScript 3 library that contains a lot of useful APIs for working with AS3. I am planning to do some more work the library this week. I spent the morning scrubbing and fixing some bugs, and plan to fix more issues, as well as generate new docs and a new SWC.

I have posted chapter 2 of the Adobe AIR for Flex Developers Pocketguide on tostring.org. The chapter is titled Getting Started with Adobe AIR Development and covers (from the chapter): Installing Adobe AIR Configuring the Flex SDK and command-line tools Creating your first AIR application with the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3 Testing AIR applications Signing, packaging, and deploying AIR applications This is just a draft chapter (.

Just a quick note, but we have posted the Adobe AIR 1.1 Release Notes in HTML. Previously they were only available via PDF. There is a lot of useful and important information in the release notes about developing in AIR 1.1, so make sure to check them out.

Prior to the release of Adobe AIR 1.0, I worked on two books about Adobe AIR (then know by its code name of “Apollo”). The books, “Adobe Integrated Runtime for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide” and “Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocketguide” provided an introduction to Adobe AIR, and all of the information a developer would need to get over the hump of developing for Adobe AIR.