Taking Adobe AIR beyond Twitter clients…and why AIR matters.

Adobe just announced that the number of AIR runtime installs has crossed 100 million and this milestone achievement has been echoed by several others. Several folks including thought-leaders like ReadWriteWeb have rightfully questioned the validity of this claim, perhaps not so much in terms of challenging the absolute numbers themselves but in [...]

Why we chose Flex

When we started developing our web-enabled Office suite, we used AJAX as that was the technology du jour in circa 2006. We had quite a bit of experience both in Javascript as well as in XML handling and quickly came up with our versions of AJAX-driven, browser-based applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. While [...]

Flex and AIR…

Chanced upon an interesting blog post about Google Docs on ReadWriteWeb that evoked some equally interesting responses. One commentator in particular was very vociferous on how Google docs fails the cut in so many basic ways. To this, Ryan Stewart of Adobe came up with a riposte post that basically posited Adobe AIR as the solution for [...]