Adobe Air ADT Error :: Could not generate timestamp: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?

This one had me scratching my head for quite flippin’ ages!

Adobe Air 3 Native Installer Problems — Platform conversion failed

When packaging an Adobe Air 3 Native Installer in Windows using the following bat file…

"sdk/path/bin/adt.bat" -package -XnoAneValidate -storetype
pkcs12 -keystore test.p12 -storepass test…

Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 — Remove Welcome Screen

I’ve just installed Adobe’s latest incarnation of Flash Builder, Adobe Flash Builder 4.6, to be presented with the familiar ‘Welcome’ screen we’ve been seeing on the Eclipse platform for years now. Only trouble is, usually there’s a checkbox…

Maven installation error : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

I consistantly got the following exception after doing a clean install of Maven2 on a CentOS box, simply by trying

mvn -version

Error occurred during initialization of VM…

Finding An HtmlLoader DOM Element’s Absolute Position in Adobe AIR

Being a Flash developer, and not an HTML/Javascript developer, I mistakenly thought that retrieving the absolute x/y coordinates of an element loaded into the DOM of Air’s HTMLLoader might be easy — I was wrong :(

Target Flash 11 and AIR 3 — Merging AIR SDK into Flex SDK

There are many people out there that seem to go through the laborious process of manually merging the Adobe Air SDk and Adobe’s Flex SDK every time a new iteration of either comes out.

Adobe AIR 3 and the new Native Extension capabilities

Adobe’s latest incarnation of the AIR runtime — Adobe AIR 3 — marks a staggering leap forward in the platforms capabilities, and opens the door to the future of Flash as an RIA development and deployment solution, on the desktop and…

Flex Spark Skin Transition to Animate Boolean Properties

There may be a better/more ‘Spark’ way of doing this but at the moment I can’t find how. When entering a certain state in my SparkSkin, I needed to flash a couple of LEDs. The LED’d are basically ToggleButtons, so we basically just…

Cufon Font Replacement

For nice font replacement on this site, I’m using the Cufon fast text rendering engine. After a fair bit of research, having previously used both sIFR and typeface.js, it does feel particularly easy to use, and as per the authors claims: