#air24h Challenge: First Video!
Here is the very first video (in French) of the Aerys team during the Adobe AIR 24H Challenge that took place last week. The first half of the video was shot only 2 hours after the begining of the contest. The 2nd half was shot only a few hours before the end of the event...
Adobe AIR Challenge : interview equipe AERYS from michael chaize on Vimeo.
Please support Aerys for the Adobe AIR 24H Challenge
That's it! The challenge is on, every challenger knows his opponents... In 8 days, we will unleash Minko and our secret project to conquer the world... or at least the Flash platform!
In the meantime, we need you! YES, YOU! Our team needs supporters, and you can help up by simply clicking on the above picture or here. You will then be asked to log into your Facebook account to show just how much you love us and you want us to win!
Thank you all for your help. I just want you to know we are setting up for a great show!
Aerys joins the 24H Adobe AIR Challenge
The 24H Adobe AIR Challenge is a 24 hours long contest that will take place the 18th of June in Paris, France.
During this coding challenge, 15 teams of two people will have to build the best AIR application regarding a precise subject. This very subject will be unveiled as the competition starts.
The challenge will be broadcasted live from http://www.adobeairchallenge.com/.
Aerys is very proud to join the competition and we hope to see you there!
And here are a few useful links (in French) :
AIR 2.0 HTTP Web Server
AIR 2.0 brings a lot of new features. Among them is the new ServerSocket class. The Socket class exists since Flash 9 and enabled a lot of new client/server applications. But it has always been limited to client side sockets as long as AIR (and the Flash Platform as a whole for that matter) is concerned. Therefor, this new server socket feature makes it possible to build actual server software using AIR!
Rich of this new and incredible ability, Christophe Coenraets posted a small but yet very powerful code snippet to build an HTTP web server using AIR 2.0!
rSoul v0.1b
rSoul is my very first public AIR application. It is an open-source NetSoul client. Since NetSoul is not a commonly used protocol it won't be useful for many people. Still, the NetSoul protocol is mandatory when you want to have access to the PIE (Parc Informatique de l'EPITA). And the source might help anyone willing to build his very first AIR application. The user interface is very light and I tried to keep it as simple and as intuitive as possible.
Like any other AIR application, rSoul is cross-platform and works on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. You can install it and get the sources from the rSoul website:
Here are a few screenshots:
Features
This first release includes the following features:
- Online/Away/Busy status
- Location configuration
- "Remember Password" option
- Auto-connect option
- Contacts list
- Add/Remove contacts
- Tabbed chat
- Auto-update
- Connection errors handling
Known issues
- Some special characters are not handled correctly
- The application does not (yet) minimize itself to the system tray
- Contacts status is not updated
If you found any bug or have any suggestion please feel free to add a comment...
AIR 2.0 Sneak Peek
Tonight I attended the "TonTon Flexeurs" (TTFX) meeting with Lee Brimelow and Mike Chambers. While Lee explained all the things that can be done to extend the Flash Platform using the ByteArray class, Mike presented a few of the latest as3corelib library features and a sneak peek of AIR 2.0. AIR 2.0 - codename "Athena" - will feature a lot of new system related updates. Discover a few of them (including a worldwide exclusive!) right after the jump...
You can also look at Michael Chaize's event photo album on Flickr!
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