I got interviewed about Posty! Thanks to Dan Thornton for the opportunity. Click here to read the interview. The question I liked most: “Was Adobe Air easy to work with? Does it offer significant advantages?”
Posty runs on Linux
Posted by CesareI took some time to test Posty on Linux. Inspite the fact that Adobe Air for Linux is still alpha version, I am surprised that Posty runs fine on major Linux distributions. The only issue, first identified by Daria, is that Posty is memoryless, that is you set it to remember login data, but when …
Deleting Encrypted data in Adobe Air
Posted by CesareAdobe Air apis allow storing encrypted data on your hard drive. During a conversation with an Adobe engineer I discovered that data are stored in this directory: Adobe/AIR/ELS/ For example on my mac data are stored in: /Users/MYUSERNAME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS Of course you can delete encrypted data via code by using: EncryptedLocalStore.reset(); Beware, this deletes ALL …
Sometimes I have the need to associate two different actions to the same button. It is not always a good solution. Indeed, good user interfaces should have a clear layout and buttons should always do the same thing. Sometimes, but very rarely, you can disregard such a rule and associate different actions to the same …
I am a fan of json. I use it extensively but sometimes I am forced to use xml. A pretty well know way to parse xml in Flex and Adobe air is the following: var xml:XML = new XML(“<data><tag>content</tag></data>”); private function parse():void { for each (var t:XML in xml.children()) { trace(“tag name: “+t.name()+” tag content …
