A new version of Adobe AIR–version 1.5–was released in mid-November in conjunction with the 2008 Adobe MAX conference in San Francisco (it was originally released for Windows and Mac OS X, a Linux version came out a few weeks later). I’ll talk about the features of this new version in a separate post but I wanted to quickly mention what your AIR application’s end user will see when the framework is updated. Continue Reading…
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Someone pointed out in a forum posting that there was a problem with Script 9.4 of my Adobe AIR with Ajax: Visual QuickPro Guide (View at Peachpit.com). Script 9.4 lists the items in a directory (a folder on the user’s computer). By clicking on the name of any item, that item will be moved to the user’s trash. Then the script removes and rebuilds the list of items. I’m not sure if this is due to a change in AIR 1.5 or not, but the problem is that after deleting an item and the list is rebuilt, clicking on any other item no longer works. The solution I came up with may actually be better than the original script (in fact, it probably is). The solution is to remove the specific item that was deleted from the list, instead of deleting and rebuilding the entire list. Continue Reading…
I’m very much a book person, I have been ever since college. You might think this would be the case as I write books for a living, but for many people there can be a big discrepancy between what you do and what you like to do. So, not only do I write books, but I love reading books; reading anything, really.
All that being said, although I do read computer books by other authors, even on the same subjects as I’ve written about, I just don’t think it appropriate for me to discuss or review these other works. I may make an occasional comment here or there, but generally I avoid doing so. There are two reasons why: first, I have an inherent conflict of interest, particularly when it comes to books on similar subjects as mine (i.e., competing books). Second, while everyone has different expectations of a book, as a person that makes much of his living doing technical writing, my expectations are likely more particular than most.
I mention all this because I often am asked as to what other books a person should consider. I can provide recommendations–clearly biased–regarding my own books but not for any others. Maybe I can offer up the occasional “this one sells well” or “I’ve heard good things about” but I do want to avoid full-on reviews and any official thumbs up/down. However, if you are curious about other books, you can post a message in the forums so that others may chip in with their own opinions.
