Those developing AIR applications in HTML/JavaScript know that the engine that enables these applications is WebKit. Apple has just released a CSS reference for Safari and WebKit. Since AIR is powered by WebKit, this, in turn, also applies to AIR Applications. Explanation of Terms Supported CSS Properties

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I, along with a number of other UM consultants, will be speaking at 360 Flex Atlanta. The dates? February 25th - 27th. The location? Omni Hotel at CNN Center. There are ton of great topics in the works and there is a ton of stuff to do downtown, so it should be a great time!

Yes, I said cache, not cash. In my work with Hibernate, I've started using EHCache as my caching provider. It's small, it's lightweight, it's fast, and it's free. It's also totally written in Java, which is no sweat for us CF developers to implement, right? I wanted to try to use it in some of my ColdFusion applications, so I built a facade for it. The overall goal of this project is to make this powerful caching engine available to CF developers who do not want to get their hands dirty with Java code. So with that in mind, look for a lot of the complex functionality to be abstracted to a few methods to keep it simple. It wasn't too difficult to build this, seeing how easily ColdFusion plays with Java. The cache is fully configureable with xml files. You can define how many elements can go to memory, if it overflows to disk, etc. Pretty cool stuff. I've included the latest beta version of EHCache (1.4) and the required Java lib files. There is one catch though. It requires CF8 because the latest version of EHCache was compiled under JVM 1.5. There are full installation instructions included in the zip as well as a sample xml config file and the XSD document to validate against. This is just Prerelease 1 of this element. I am already working on a way to use EHCache's distributed cache. This means that you can easily share your caches across clusters with minimal configuration. Getting that nailed down is my main goal for Prerelease 2. Look for that sometime after Thanksgiving.

Advertising on the web is, if nothing, ubiquitous. What if, your desktop applications contained ads just the same as web sites. With AIR, that becomes a very real possibility. I played around over this weekend past with getting Google's adSense to work inside an AIR applications. So what does this mean? It means that we can now deliver customized ad-based content to users within our HTML/JS powered AIR applications. Attached is the StockWatcher example with Google AdSense enabled.