This week I want to mention the beauty of Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and Flex. I started wading in it a couple of years ago and now I’m all deep-sea on it. I used to be a Flash and Actionscript hater but that was before AIR, Flex, and Actionscript 3. It’s legit.
AIR offers common folk like you and me the ability to create desktop applications that run on Mac, PC, and Linux. If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “All I need is a simple app that will just do [something only you would need]” and you can wrap your head around Actionscript (which is somewhat like Javascript) and a little MXML then you can create your own solutions.
After the jump: how we solved our switcher limitations and alphanumeric pager problem including pics and a download. Read the rest of this entry »
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