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Over at the Adobe Dev Centre there is an interesting article covering some common mistakes when developing AIR applications. It’s written by AIR guru David Tucker who is an AIR and Flex developer for Universal Mind.
So go and give it a read, you’d be mad not to.

Adobe’s Mike Chambers has listed some URLs that detail error codes within Adobe AIR. So if you get cryptic error codes and are having trouble tracking them down try these links.

List of runtime errors in Adobe docs

Adobe Developer Toolkit (ADT) error codes

It didn’t take long, until some wise startup uses AIR as a platform for laying down ads in a poor attempt at just wrapping a webbrowser.

I’m not the only one that was not impressed with SocialU’s AIR app, ReadWriteWeb has a writeup that is worth a read and expresses much of the thoughts that I had on the app. Make your own mind up. Read the article here.

The popular podcast for web designers, developers and owners by Paul Boag has an interview with AIR developer Jonathan Snook – who developed the Snoto AIR previously reviewed here on RefreshingApps.

In podcast 130, Jonathan covers what Adobe AIR is and some inside tips and tricks for the beginner. Boagworld is a great entertaining podcast so give it a listen.

Adobe have released an AIR app for packaging up RoboHelp.
There were times when I could have really done with this app in the past. So go check it out over at Adobe now and let us know what you think.

If you do then Mike Chambers from Adobe would like to hear them. Check out his blog post here and send in a comment with the issues that you have.

We are pleased to be the featured site on the Adobe Developer Connection website.

There are loads of resources and great sites over in the Developer Connection so go and check it out, spreading the RefreshingApps word as you go!

Yahoo have announced an API for their music service. Detailed on programmableweb the service is REST based and allows for JSON, XML and RSS responses. Requests are currently limited to 5000 per day although if your using AIR you will be caching your results locally. Should be interesting to see what apps evolve out of the music API. There is also a support forum setup for this API.

An interesting step by step article for developers on using Flash CS3 and AIR. This will cover some of the questions and getting started issues that Flash developers could have when moving to AIR development. Nice job guys. Check it out here now.