First Post

Welcome to my MIST 5990 Directed Study Blog. From this blog, I will log over the course of the spring 2008 semester my work with rich internet applications, particularly with Adobe Air (Adobe Integrate Runtime). Adobe AIR is an cross operating system run time environment/framework built primarily to allow for Flash, Flex, Ajax, and HTML applications that can be deployed as desktop applications. It has great potential to allow for rich user-interaction, real-time data acquisition and manipulation, and lightweight powerful applications. Competing concepts include Microsoft Silverlight, JavaFX, and Mozilla's XUL. The official web site for Adobe Air can be found here. From the site, one can download Beta executable versions of the application as well as some showcase applications to demonstrate what Adobe Air can do for free.



I hope to post to this blog at least three days a week, keeping it up to date with my progress with Adobe Air. Check back soon for updates and summaries of what I am currently working on.