Merapi: Alpha Code Released!

Well, Merapi has been a long time in the making, but on July 14th, 2008 the initial Merapi Alpha release candidate has been distributed to the Merapi Alpha community of users.

Last evening Adam packaged up first Alpha RC 1 Build! It seems to be bug free and functioning rather nicely!

Read more : http://merapiproject.net/

Nice Flash & AIR debugger

It's a simple AIR based debugger for flash & AIR apps.
Arthropod is really easy to use, the only thing you need to do is import the Debug class, write a log message with the log function, start Arthropod and publish your site / AIR application.

Nice application to try

Beberapa alasan Plurker tidak akan dibuat di platform AIR

Layanan Plurk sudah 2 bulan ini semakin menunjukan perkembangan pesat, terakhir sudah mencapai 80000 pengguna.

Beberapa developer menanyakan ketersediaan client API untuk Plurk, termasuk official client desktop app. Memang ada developer AIR platform yang terobsesi ikut membuat client di platform AIR.

Tapi jawaban ini lumayan bikin mikir. Tapi aku pikir ini justru membuat developer AIR malah lebih tertantang untuk bikin versi AIR-nya. Pengen bikin juga?

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Buzzword, Awesome online web processor..

A nice Flex application for word processing over web has been released on http://buzzword.acrobat.com.

I spent a little time today for playing around it and found some nice features. It provide capabilities such importing a *.doc files, and successful for rendering table, enable history operation (undo, redo), and other rich text processing operations.

Other good thing about it that Adobe has a whole set of Development APIs that can be used in Flex/AIR to provide such capabilities into our applications.

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Be careful with Merapi..!!

Everybody should be careful with Merapi, The most active Vulcanoe in Indonesia.



Perhaps Adam Flater should permit to Mbah Maridjan and may ask with this caretaker of Mt. Merapi about how dangerous is the disaster for him.


Mbah Maridjan the one-dollar-a-day job of 'Merapi gatekeeper'.
"you must be careful playing with Merapi"


But Adam Flater is too late and maybe he didn’t know how important "area and potential hazard mapping"

I'm so sorry, this is a bad joke right?
I hope and praying for Adam and his family is okay, and wish he come back soon and continue developing this awesome project.. I can't wait to play with it!! :)

Merapi, bridge AIR platform to Java Environment

Definition of Merapi originally a volcano in Central Java, but there's a new term about Merapi :

"Merapi is a bridge between applications written in Java and those running in and created for Adobe AIR™ (Adobe Integrated Runtime™)."

Merapi has huge potential and we can looking forward discovering possibility when we can combine the power of Java with the richness and ubiquity of Adobe AIR.

Another project is Artemis active on Apollo (Adobe AIR beta) era but it was abandoned. Today the project rebirth under the name of Merapi.
Merapi use Java to connect AIR to the desktop. The project will be (unfortunately not yet) distributed as a freeware and then as an open source project on Google Code.

Using Merapi, Adobe AIR™ applications can "talk" to other software that the user has installed on their computer. In addition, Merapi allows AIR™ applications to serve as a user interface to just about anything that a Java™ application can do on a user's computer.

Zinc Vs Apollo

Mungkin gerah juga karena Apollo banyak dibanding bandingkan
dengan Zinc, akhirnya Jaspal Sohal [CEO, Multidmedia Ltd] angkat bicara
untuk menjelaskan perbedaan keduanya (Nggak enak ati sama Mike Chamber
kali..)
Berikut tabel perbandingannya :

	Zinc™ vs Apollo™
	Zinc	Apollo
100% Standalone (No Plug-Ins/Runtimes required)
Does not Require Installation to Run
Can run from CD-Rom/DVD/USB
Alpha Transparency
File IO Commands
Browser Commands
Database Connectivity
Play External Video (MPEG, AVI, MOV)
Distribute via DRM Solutions
Connect to External 3rd Party DLL's

Sumber : MDM Newsletter - April 2007
Baca artikel lengkapnya di http://www.multidmedia.com/support/developers/articles/?action=show&id=33

Tentang Apollo™ sampai saat ini kita tidak bisa terlalu dini memberi penilaian khusus karena masih versi alpha.
Paling tidak janganlah Apollo sama nasibnya dengan saudara tuanya (Central) yang langsung layu / kurang diminati, [alasan Adobe : Central hanya diperuntukkan di Actionscript 2.0]