Pachube Air from chris dalby on Vimeo.

I have been developing an Adobe Air application for a few days using Adobe Flex 3.  It has been a steep learning curve all round.  But I am pleased to have finished the first release of Pachube Air, a cross platform Air app that can organise your Pachube (pronounced patch bay) charts and is available for download on pc, mac or linux.

I have spent the last week trying to work out flex.  It has been an interesting journey.  As this is relatively new technology, there is not much documentation around.  So you find yourself having to write the manual.  So I’ll be releasing a coding tutorial over the weekend of binding a TileList to a sqlite database in Adobe Air.  There simply wasn’t an example of binding to a database anywhere online as far as I could find.  I also had a look in Waterstones, and apart from not having any of the O’Reilly books that I wanted, all examples used XML to demonstrate a TileList.

So I spent a few days twiddling, and thanks to Critter for helping me out.  I am planning to further devlop this to incorporate a more tabs containing charts and controls for the home automation hub and RSMB.

[ Update 17/03/2009 - you can now download a copy of Pachube Air, although I still haven't added the delete button.  But feel free to have a play ]

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