Posted by
Neil – May 27, 2009
Recently, I’ve been seeing much greater interest in web applications from the sorts of people that love living the dark dingy corners of your local Days Inn/Travelodge, the traveling salesman. Typically these people tend to be fairly behind the times in terms of tech as its not a core part of their day. Sure, they might well be up to speed on the latest on mid-sized executive cars, or what their mobile phone can do, but technology? Not unless it’s something their selling.
Now from what I understand, these guys typically carry around several items: A laptop, a phone, some sample product, and loads of manuals and documentation about what they are selling. They almost have a boot load of stuff that just gets hauled up and down the country.
This causes a number of problem, namely that documentation needs to be produced whenever something changes, the sales guys needs to read all this stuff to stay up to date, and the management have no real idea of how good their staff’s product knowledge is. They only really understand the sales orders coming back.
Enter Adobe AIR stage left. More…
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Neil – July 4, 2008
This morning I was confronted with an email telling me about Adobe’s new release of Acrobat 9 reader.
Whoop-de-doo I hear you cry…and that’s exactly what I thought (I don’t really care much for PDF). However, I duly went to the download site and noticed a couple of small interesting things. Let me show you Exhibit’s A & B:
Both of these options were presented to me when I went to download. This is a signicant thing. Adobe are now using the pure ubquity of the reader software to distribute the AIR runtime. This means that the installations of AIR and Flash 9 are going to be going through the roof, which is a good thing as it now means that, for us AIR developers, relying on the client user having the runtime installed is a little easier to predict and handle.
Flash and PDF Reader have got to be the most installed items of software Adobe have in their arsenal. Overtime it certainly looks like AIR will be up there with them.
Posted by
Neil – July 2, 2008
I’ve just seen on one of the many BBC editorial blogs that they have now re-released their age-old windows based news ticker application as an AIR app.
For me this is an interesting one for a couple of reasons – firstly, that this will result in a massive deployment of AIR across potentially hundreds of thousands of users, but also that they decided to not got down the Silverlight for any particular reason (and I’m sure Microsoft were trying to get in on this one).
Anyways, check it out and have a play. Could it be the start of a new application development “standard” comig into being.
Recently, I’ve been seeing much greater interest in web applications from the sorts of people that love living the dark dingy corners of your local Days Inn/Travelodge, the traveling salesman. Typically these people tend to be fairly behind the times in terms of tech as its not a core part of their day. Sure, they might well be up to speed on the latest on mid-sized executive cars, or what their mobile phone can do, but technology? Not unless it’s something their selling.
