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Adobe have posted a good beginners tutorial for Flex and AIR. It’s split into a number of modules and instructions and code are included.

Adobe AIR has won a Webware 100 award in the Infrastructure & Storage category!

Great to get more exposure for the best RIDA (Rich Internet Desktop Application) platform there is.

Registration is now open for this years Adobe MAX conference. As we know there is no Max Europe this year which is disappointing but for those who can afford to go to Los Angeles this years MAX is shaping up to be a great conference.

Head on over now to save $200 off the regular price until August.

Today I started AIRAppFriday on Twitter. So the idea is that every Friday you tweet your favourite AIR application of the week using the hashtag #AIRAppFriday, simple.

So setup a search in your AIR desktop Twitter client or use the search on the Twitter website (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=airappfriday).

There is common knowledge that AIR apps can sometimes be CPU hogs. Well Grant Skinner has written a great blog post about how an AIR application in Flash that does nothing uses 4% of his new Mackbook pro CPU. It’s worth pointing out that Grant finds this only with Mac and not Windows and it is also seen in the Flash Player.

He is urging you to file this in the bug database at Adobe called Jira, the bug is numbered FP-2009 so do a quick search for that.

In the mean time Grant has created a ...

FlashCamp is back in the UK at Birmingham on 16th June 2009 so get on down and register your attendance.

Again there are some great speakers and sponsors for the FREE event that runs from 12:00 until close at 20:00. Covering a variety of topics from Flex custom component creations with Mike Jones (aka Flashgen), there is some skinning with Degrafa and FXG by me (jameswhittaker.com). Some cool 3d from Away 3d creator Rob Bateman and getting started with PureMVC with Simon Bailey.

Keep an ...

Well this came out of the blue. Adobe are actively working on a 64bit version of Adobe AIR and the Linux version is going to be the first one out of the stable.

According to Ashutosh Sharma’s blog the AIR team are requesting that if you are interested and have the time to offer feedback then they would welcome your application to the pre-release program.

Read more here.