We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices, and set top boxes, and more. The Open Screen Project is also supported by ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal.

TorontoFLEX is scheduled for May 15th, 2008 at MaRS Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Registration is FREE and now open. I am planning on attending this event, and hope to see you there!

AMF (Flash Remoting) is generally the preferred way for Flash/Flex/AIR applications to communicate with back-end servers and services. ColdFusion developers are fortunate in that AMF has been built in to ColdFusion for years. Java developers have access to the open-source BlazeDS which, among other things, provides support for AMF. And the community and 3rd parties have implemented AMF for PHP, .NET, and more. And now Python users can share the benefits of AMF via PyAMF - AMF for Python.

LiveCycle Data Services 2.6 is now in public beta. The update includes better support for Flex 3, support for AIR offline storage and data management, improved performance, and more. And yes, it can be used with ColdFusion. You can get LCDS 2.6 beta from Labs.

Adobe TV has launched. We'll be posting new content regularly (I actually recorded 3 videos yesterday which will be going live in a month or so).

I am on the way to Cleveland for Flex Camp tomorrow (posting this on my cell phone from a rest stop on the Ohio Turnpike). I had originally planned to present an opening session and take part in a closing Q&A panel, but I'll have to miss the Q&A as I have to be in San Francisco next. I understand that attendance for Flex Camp Cleveland is up around 150, which is great, and I am looking forward to meeting everyone in the morning.

I just finished my session at the RIA Architect Summit here in Bangalore, India. I presented an introduction to Flex, AIR, and Data Services (BlazeDS and LiveCycle DS) - all in about 1 hour. Fortunately, I speak quickly, and everyone here understands and speaks English, so I was able to get through the content without problems. Oh, and I did a PowerPoint-free session, that saved time, too. Lots and lots of questions, so many that we had to cut them short - we'll have a Meet The Team session later today and will be able to take more questions then. James Ward is on stage now demoing Flex connectivity and plumbing, picking up where I left off. Other speakers today will cover Flex best practices, AIR development, and more.

I arrived in India early Wednesday morning (very early, just before 1:00am) and finally got to my hotel after 2:00am. And with the massive time zone difference and having just flown for close to 20 hours, I barely slept at all. And then we spent a full day with the local Adobe team, customers, and partners talking about Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, and more.

It's now early Thursday morning here, and we just arrived at The Chancery Pavilion, the venue for today's RIA Architect Summit here in Bangalore. The staging is pretty cool, there is seating for about 500, and (as usual) James Ward and I are sitting on the side working on the content that we're due to present shortly. And we're running out of time, I had better get back to it ...

Just landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport where I change planes and then on to Bangalore for all sorts of meetings and the Adobe RIA Architect Summit 2008.

Title says is all. Go to Adobe Labs for the alpha version of the Linux AIR Player. We've also posted an update to the Flex Builder 3 for Linux alpha, adding support for AIR creation.

Just a reminder, the 11 city On AIR European Train Tour starts tomorrow in Madrid. The team is already there setting up (although, unfortunately, I am not joining them this time around). So if you are in (or near) Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Munich, or Milan, be sure to drop by!

I am in the Rio de Janeiro airport, waiting for my flight back to the U.S. (I'm home for the weekend and then head to India next week). This morning I presented Flex 3 and AIR and a launch event here. And like the events in São Paulo and Brasilia earlier this week, this one was a winner. A standing room only crowd of close to 200 packed the auditorium for a lively and highly interactive event (bringing the total attendance for the launch events here to over 700!). Brazilians are a lively and passionate bunch, and are most definitely not shy. The questions and comments came hard and fast, and good questions and comments at that. 3 hours flew by, and once again I had to omit about half of my content. The rest of the day was spent meeting with customers and partners, right up until I had to head to the airport.

So, 4 days (with no more than 5 hours sleep each night), 3 launch events, 2 press interviews, 5 partner meetings, 8 customer meetings, 1 video shoot ... all fueled by more cans of Guaraná Antarctica than I can count.

Tchau, Brazil. And muito obrigado!

I just arrived in Rio de Janeiro, several hours later than planned. I spent the day today in Brasília, first meeting with customers and partners, and then presenting at the Flex 3 / AIR launch event. Over 160 people crammed into the hotel conference room for 3 hours, and the event was amazing! The crowd was so involved and interactive that half way through our allotted time I had to ask them to stop asking questions, I was still on my opening slides - I don't think I have ever had to do that before! The energy and enthusiasm at this event was truly incredible, this will be a tough one to beat. Although, we'll try - we do it again here in Rio de Janeiro in the morning.

I just wrapped two jam-packed days in São Paulo. Yesterday started early, my flight from the U.S. landed at 6am, I got picked up from the airport at 7am, arrived at the Adobe office at 9am, in time for my first meeting at 10:0am. Then back-to-back meetings and presentations (and even a video shoot) until after 9pm! I asked the local team to fully utilize my time in Brazil, and they took my request really seriously!

This morning I presented Flex 3, AIR, and Data Services at a 3 hour launch event. Almost 200 people filled the room, and another 150 joined in via Connect from 5 other Brazilian cities (ones I'll not be visiting). As I have come to expect from the crowd in São Paulo, the event was lively, highly interactive (despite the language barrier), and I did not even get through all of my prepared content. This was my 5th trip to São Paulo, and the city has never disappointed me.

It's now after 11pm local time, and we just arrived in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Tomorrow morning we host a similar launch event here, and then I'll meet with several customers and partners before flying to Rio de Janeiro to do it all again there on Thursday.

If you plan to attend the events in Brasília or Rio de Janeiro, here are details.

I am in Brazil, my 5th visit here. I arrived in São Paulo a few hours ago for a full week of events here in São Paulo, and also in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro. For the next 4 days it'll be non-stop customer meetings, partner visits, press interviews, and three public Flex 3 / AIR presentations. It's great to be back here!

Adobe Developer Week 2008 is a week long online event with 20 sessions covering AIR, Flex, Flash, Mobile, ColdFusion and Dreamweaver. And it all starts tomorrow, March 24, 20008.

Salt Lake City, home to MAX 2003 and the 2002 Winter Olympics, is hosting RIA Dev Shed, a full day event on Flex, AIR, and more. Presenters include Ray Camden and Mike Nimer. Regisration is now open.

James Ward and I will be in Bangalore, India, later this month, and will both be presenting at the Adobe RIA Architect Summit 2008, a free full day event dedicated to Flex, AIR, Data Services, ColdFusion, and more. Registration is now open.

Building on the success of last year's FlexManiacs, the new WebManiacs is 3 events in one - CFManiacs, FlexManiacs, and AIRManiacs. Over 50 speakers, more than 200 sessions, hands-on sessions, and much more, May 19-23 2008 in Washington, D.C. And early-bird discounted pricing closes on March 14th, so register now.

By popular request, an Adobe AIR Developers LinkedIn group has been added, (in addition to the ColdFusion and Flex groups mentioned previously).

Later this month I'll be presenting Flex 3 and AIR at a series of events in Brazil:

• March 25th: São Paulo
• March 26th: Brasília
• March 27th: Rio de Janeiro

Details online, and Registration for all three events is now open.

FusionReactor 3 has been released, with the ability to monitor ColdFusion 6, 7, and 8, as well as LiveCycle Data Services, and more. Check out the new features, including the AIR client.

AIR includes the SQLite engine, but it is just that, an engine, and it has no UI for creating and working with tables. To address this, Christophe Coenraets created a great little AIR app called SQLite Admin, and earlier today he posted an updated version for use with the released AIR 1.0.

I just love this eBoy AIR launch poster (follow link for a larger clearer copy). Check out the CF Dude on the ping-pong table!

Adobe Developer Connection has published an article by Todd Prekaski on the details of digitally signing AIR applications. This one is required reading for anyone building AIR apps.