on AIR Bus Tour : Philadelphia

The Franklin Institute Science Museum / August 22

222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
lat 39.957846, lon -75.17247

Who?

Anyone interested in learning more about the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).

What?

A one night conference on Adobe AIR with technical sessions, showcases and discussion.

How Much?

Free and open to the public (registration required).

What to Bring

Yourself, laptop, any Flex, HTML and JavaScript apps you want to get running on Adobe AIR. We will provide the beer, Red Bull, coffee, food, XBoxes, schwag, knowledge, venue and bits.

Q & A Room

Stop by the Q & A room at any time throughout the evening to get answers to your questions and any help you may need with your AIR applications.

Agenda

[6:30] Doors Open

Registration, meet and greet, discussion and Q & A. Grab a drink and a bite to eat, and chat with speakers and other developers interested in developing with the Adobe Integrated Runtime.

[7:00] Keynote (Ryan Stewart)

Mike Downey, a Senior Product Manager for the Flash Platform at Adobe, provides an introduction to the Adobe Integrated Runtime and how it fits into the Flash Platform, and the larger RIA landscape.

[7:30] Building your first AIR application with Adobe Flex (Mike Chambers)

Learn how to setup your development environment and build your first AIR application using Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3 (code named Moxie).

[7:50] Building your first AIR application with HTML and JavaScript (Kevin Hoyt)

After this session you will know how to setup the Adobe AIR SDK to allow you to develop and package AIR applications from the command line. You will also be able to leverage the Adobe AIR command line tools to enable development of HTML and JavaScript based applications. Finally, the session will demonstrate built in support for AIR development from Adobe Dreamweaver and the Eclipse based Aptana.

[8:15] Leveraging HTML and JavaScript within Adobe AIR (Kevin Hoyt)

Gain a better understanding of the HTML and JavaScript environments within the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and explore how these technologies can be leveraged in both Flash / Flex and HTML / JavaScript-based applications. JavaScript and ActionScript script bridging will be covered, as well as how to use AIR, Flash Player and ActionScript Library APIs directly from JavaScript.

[8:30] Break

[8:45] Adobe AIR API Overview (Daniel Dura)

Receive an overview of the new APIs that the Adobe Integrated Runtime makes available to applications. Both ActionScript and JavaScript examples will be shown.

[9:15] Using NativeWindows in Adobe AIR (Chafic Kazoun)

In this session you will receive a solid understanding of the windowing API capabilities of the Adobe Integrated Runtime starting from the NativeWindow class all the way up to the Window component. This session covers the creating, sizing, customizing windows along with developing multi-window applications.

[9:45] Break

[9:55] ColdFusion Powered AIR Applications (Ben Forta)

ColdFusion has long been the easiest and most productive way to build web applications. And now, when coupled with Adobe AIR, ColdFusion's legendary productivity can power your desktop applications too. This session will show how to build AIR applications that integrated with ColdFusion services on the server.