Apollo

onAIR Tour Bus – First Stop Seattle

Well the onAIR tour bus made its first days trip yesterday. I had a great time following the Twits from the bus as well as checking in once in a while to see live video feed. Today the gang is doing a full day workshop in Seattle Washington. Tomorrow they swing out to Vancouver BC, then thursday they hit Portland. I was really excited to see they were stopping in Portland, and although we...

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Adobe Labs: Just the way I like it

Its been a great week on the labs site. Today I visited the site and this was the picture I was presented with. So what do I like about this picture? Well right along side Adobe’s premier *NEW* technologies is our old friend ColdFusion. The ColdFusion 8 beta is getting primary position with the other new hot technologies. Another thing is the update to the Apollo toolkit including a...

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Why I think Apollo is Amazing

Apollo is a new platform independent runtime environment that allows us to use tools we already use everyday (html, js, flash, pdf) to build desktop applications. Think of it as Java without the hell that is java. Write your application using tools that are familiar and then delpoy that to users with all the simplicity of a web application. Sounds amazing to me. However there are some that are...

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Welcome to Apollo

At 360Flex we asked how long it would be until we could play with Apollo. They kept telling us soon. Soon? Well they did in fact mean soon. Today Adobe released the first public alpha of Apollo to the labs wiki site. Apollo is a new technology from Adobe that will allow web developers to use all their traditional tools (html, ajax and flash) to bring desktop applications to their users. Its a...

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