Ok, so here it is my Chromeless Adobe AIR App Demo!

I wish I had more connections setup at the time of the demo.. But going on holiday tomorrow so little time to add connections and make a proper presentation..

But you can see the Sencha JS framework in action pulling the webcenter data from the REST API…

ok, you can`t see the app pulling the data but trust me its connecting authenticating and working!
User Credentials are hardcoded in the app -  future update will have login ability and ability to specify which webcenter server you want to connect to

So recently I didn’t have much luck convincing the Oracle AppsLab Team to start creating Adobe AIR desktop applications for Webcenter Spaces The good news is however they are creating browser extensions which are just as good and not only for 1 browser. It looks like they have been working on Chrome, Safari and firefox!

I`m not sure if I can make OOW this year.. 50/50 I`ll be going but if any of you do go. Go check out the AppsLab team booth and see what great things they have been doing..

So your probably all going I don’t know flex, AIR is rubbish what’s the point its all flash. Flash is probably going to die in 4 years time or so unless they make something cool there is no point in looking at AIR.

Well I would agree on the above points.. But wait.. AIR supports CSS3 and HTML 5 using the Webkit engine and you don`t need to know any flash flex you can simply use html javascript. AIR works cross platform - smartphones, smartbooks, tablets, netbooks, and PCs - on Windows, Mac, Linux you just need the air engine running.  It also has other benefits  - The javascript engine is 50% faster! There is mass storage detection to synchronise your files like photos, mp3s etc - Support for local DB environment upto 1 TB on mySQLLite or you could use HTML5 offline storage!

So this weekend I set the challenge to go ahead and create my first AIR application for WebCenter connecting via ajax to the REST services.

It took me all weekend but it’s done!

So what monster did I create? Mwuhahahahahahaha!!

Well it’s nothing special  - I connected to the REST People Connections API to bring back all the user details I`m connected with. And to display the data I used the Sencha JS Framework formerly known as EXT JS. This allowed me to order display and find connections quickly. View Quick Demo …

I`m really excited with whats happening with Sencha - they have joined forces with JQTouch expanding EXTs potential on touch devices; iphone, android, ipad you name it!! It all looking so good.. There just isn’t enough time to keep up with technology..

Well, I have to see that it is amusing to see that google are using animated sprites instead of animated gifs?
Just hit the Google site this morning..

Any one want to comment on why?

Here is the animated sprite in question..

ok; so the old entrance to Blue Studios  was just some text :(…

So I thought over the weekend the enhance the entrance, I hope you all like it.

The Digaset site and our Open Source jQuery Games Engine site are temporarily down whilst we do some updates.

It’s that wonderful time of the year where I get to go out - chill, relax and forget about the fun world of work.
This time I`ll be spending 3 glorious weeks relaxing on my own, by lake Bled in Slovenia.

So, if any one happens to be in the neighborhood and wants to go for a drink go party ping me a message