A small team in my Company are trying to get AIR approved as a Company standard for Rich Desktop Applications.  We already have Flex 2 & 3 approved, but would like to go one step further and start developing AIR apps for internal uses.  One thing we are needing is a list of Best Practices for Deployment and Security.  Was curious if anyone could share some information on best practices you have came across during your experiences? 

Just post them here so everyone can see them and leverage it!

Thanks in advance!
Josh

As the title suggest, this is a topic that I have been thinking about a lot lately.  I tend to be a jack of all trades, but in my case being a jack of all trades means that I never have the time to really get good at one thing.  For me this has become a serious problem that I plan on resolving soon.  I started looking at my life in general and I am this way across the board, not just at work.  I decided that I would try and figure out when I started to spread out and I narrowed it down to my Sophmore year in High School.

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Anyone wondered why the iPhone doesnt have the flash player on it?  Something so simple, small and that has so many wide spread users?  It's simple... Apple doesnt want to have competing software on it's products.

Read this for yourself and please feel free to comment your thoughts/opinions.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/14/cocoa-for-windows-flash-killer-sproutcore/
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/16/apple-adopting-sproutcore-for-web-applications/

PS: The first link talks about the Flash player being Proprietary... does this guy know about the openflash that was announced? I guess not...

I fly out this Friday to prepare for the webmaniacs conference next week. My wife and I are doing a little site seeing prior to the conference over the weekend. Should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to getting away from work for a little bit and spending some QT with my wife.

I took some time and put my "current" agenda on my google calendar. They have a useful print option that saves the calendar to a PDF. I have uploaded my schedule if anyone is interested in seeing what type of sessions I signed up for (see below), I may modify it a little. I am not thrilled on some of the topics I signed up for the first two days of the conference and may make some adjustments.

I plan on posting my notes daily next week on either the days summary or a particular session. I haven't decided, it really depends on how much time I have and how much time I want to invest in blogging all the cool stuff I hear about in the sessions and talking with other developers. So stay tuned.

Download my WebManiacs Session Agenda

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I was browsing around the Adobe Dev Net sites this afternoon during lunch and read this article "Top 10 Mistakes when Building Flex Applications" by James Ward & Jon Rose I agree with about 90% of what they were talking about.  Except for #5) "Trying to hire experienced Flex Developers".  This statement to me is just emphasizing how easy it would be for a Java programmer to get into Flex, but I really think it's a marketing comment and doesn't belong on the top 10 list.  Now if the title was "Top 10 Mistakes when Staffing for a Flex Project"  I would definitely agree it should be on the list. ;)

Overall, a good article, short, sweet and to the point.  I especially like #10 "Not Preparing for Offline Applications".  Now that we have AIR every project that is using Flex or AJAX for that matter should have a offline/desktop supporting architecture, or at least a place holder to add it in later.  In the next 2 years, users and customers will be demanding offline capability with data syncronization when the user is back "online". 

Here is an example use case:

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