UPDATE: You can either encode or decode a Dreamweaver password using the form in this post.
I came across a little undocumented behaviour in the Dreamweaver API the other day. The Site.importSite() function (which will import a site from a Dreamweaver site definition file, or *.ste) expects the pw attribute of the remoteinfo element to be encoded… but as what? (more…)
We finally got a video put together. While it is very preliminary, you do get a pretty good idea of what the Konductor platform can do. Let me know what you think!
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej2obn24mdE&fmt=18
There will be more updates coming soon…
UPDATE: It seems the video doesn’t seem to be working for some – I embedded it HQ, maybe that has something to do with it… I updated the embed code, hopefully that fixes it. And just in case, here is a link to the standard quality video, and the high quality video.
UPDATE: The YouTube links still work, but we have moved our video hosting to MotionBox, as they offer much higher quality video. I have changed the embedded video to the MotionBox version.
It’s very exciting to announce that Casey Sheehan and Expo Cooperative will be doing doing the corporate identity for Konductor! Sure, it is cool to be hammering out great technology all day, but it is exciting to have these super talented guys make Konductor look as sexy as it is smart.
Check out some of their work here. They’ve even managed to make DNA look sexy! (They did the corporate identity DNA11 just in case you didn’t work that one out 
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This is the title of one of Grant Skinner’s sessions this year at MAX.
I’ve been wondering what exactly is Adobe’s business plan regarding AIR (they are admittedly a little light on the details and heavy on the buzzwords). They have been pumping so much time and money into promoting this technology, and the pay off, at least from my perspective, seems pretty minimal for them at this point.
I wonder if it’s small puzzle piece in a bigger plan, and I just don’t see the whole picture. Maybe they are taking a page out of Google’s book – create a super cool technology, get everyone using it, then work out how to make money off it later. Or maybe it’s supposed to bring Flex Builder into the desktop application IDE market, and take some of Microsoft’s and Borland’s entry level desktop application market share. I would love to know…
I think it’s good to see the money making potential of AIR starting to be addressed though, even if it is from a third party perspective. If Adobe started addressing this from there own perspective, I do think it would build a lot of confidence in AIR technology, and boost its corporate usage. Decision makers would like to know that it is here to stay, and a real business strategy would do that.
Anyway, make sure you check out all of the cool sessions lined up for MAX this year. Lots of interesting things to think about. It’s getting close now…
To preface this post, I think I need to define what a real AIR application is in my mind: it is an application that is essentially a mash-up between your OS and the Web, in one seamless experience. To further that, I don’t think a “real” AIR application is any of these following things:
This isn’t to say that all the current AIR applications out there are useless. But I really think the true purpose of AIR hasn’t been fully realised. If we consider some use cases, you’ll see what I mean. These are applications mentioned in Lifehacker’s Top 10 Apps Worth Installing Adobe AIR For. (more…)