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Archive for November, 2007

New Adobe AIR Logo

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Mike Chambers just unveiled the new logo for Adobe AIR. This is the final logo and we tried to incorporate a lot of what AIR is into it. As Mike says:

Adobe AIR is built on top of three core web technologies (HTML, Flash and PDF), and we wanted the logo to represent this. Thus, each corner of the logo represents one of these core technologies.

Enjoy the new logo:

Teach Programming with a Game Built on AIR

Monday, November 12th, 2007

Doug Sharp emailed me to tell me about a game he’s building called ChipWits II. He actually wrote ChipWits I on a Mac back in 1984 and thought AIR was a good excuse to do another version. In the game you program a robot using icons and breakpoints. The graphical programming language teaches the basics of development in a fun and engaging way. If you have kids, I’d encourage you to download this and let them check it out.

Doug entered ChipWits II in the Independent Games Festival this year. I think he has a winner.