Coder’s Eye

I’m pleased to announce the release of my first Adobe AIR application. This is a simple little desktop (not browser) app which checks your status on Weewar to see if you have any games waiting for your attention.
Revision 2.2 feature list:

Checks your status using the Weewar API
User settable interval between checks
You can force an update […]

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Using the free AIR code signing certificates offered by Adobe AIR Marketplace I’ve signed Weewarify 2.1 so that it doesn’t give nasty “UNKNOWN PUBLISHER” warnings when one goes to install it. Evidently, I’ll now be able to publish updates as well, and have them be automatically offered as available, so long as I use the […]

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Score! I just got a free Adobe AIR code signing certificate from Thawte. Adobe is giving out 125 of these to the first people who upload to the new Adobe Air Marketplace.
This is a $300 value, and it is good thinking by Adobe, because while I enjoy making free apps for AIR, I wouldn’t have […]

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I finally got around to updating my Adobe AIR apps to the latest version of the runtime. Argh.
They keep changing the sandbox! It is incredibly annoying to have to work around the sandbox, and then to have to go make seemingly arbitrary tweaks on every version update.
Regardless, I’ve now updated Bluegrid and Weewarify to work […]

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When I recently updated an Adobe AIR app I’d written for AIR Beta 1, I found that I had to go to enormous lengths to continue being able to use Ext as a support library for it.

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I’m a big fan of the Blueprint CSS framework. In the process of using it to develop the base template for Banjo, the blog app I’m writing, I realized I need a tool to help me keep page elements lined up on the grid, both vertically and horizontally.
Blueprint comes with a background grid image to […]

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After more work than I expected, I’ve updated my Weewar status notifier to work with the Adobe Air Beta 2 SDK.
There were two tricky parts to the update. The first, separating the AJAX/UI logic out into a separate sandbox. The second challenge was getting rid of the pesky scrollbars AIR seemed to insist […]

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If you tell Lighttpd about the mimetype for your AIR apps, then your users will be properly prompted when they click on the files to download/install. If not, then their browsers will complain about unknown file types.

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