Adobe Releases "Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide"
Note: The Adobe Labs site appears to be down right now so those links are broken for the moment. I suspect they will be returning soon.
Adobe has been working on a very exciting technology known as Apollo that may have a significant impact on how people build rich internet applications for the desktop. Essentially it's a cross operating system run-time built on top of Flash, HTML and PDF. Though it will be possible to build applications completely using HTML/AJAX, most people will likely use Flex and ActionScript 3.
If you're interested in learning more, I recommend checking out the just released Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide (free download). Tonight at our San Francisco office a special event took place targeting potential early adopters called Apollo Camp. If you're curious to seeing what took place at the event, attendees have been posting their photographs on Flickr. Those in attendance were also apparently presented with an early alpha build which is very exciting. Though I've been running early builds of Apollo at work, this is the first time I've seen an external .air file posted to a public site. The extension .air, by the way, is an Apollo installer application that will run on Windows, Mac and eventually Linux. The Apollo team has made it very easy to convert your existing Flex applications (web-based) to Apollo (desktop). Some developers are reporting that it takes less than five minutes. I'm looking forward to seeing what people start building with this new framework.
