Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-06 Thread Shannon Hicks
What about a poor-man's 100% availability :) Servers down? Site got Dugg? No problem :) Shan Jeffry Houser wrote: I'll just throw this out there. One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't connected is in an airplane. Every airport I've been in recently

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/ At 10:01 AM 2/5/2007, you wrote: Apollo Coders list. Where is this list? I want in! -Scott -- Jeffry Houser, Software Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My Company:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
I'll just throw this out there. One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't connected is in an airplane. Every airport I've been in recently has had wi-fi. I assume this is becoming standard. I think Adobe is shelling out a lot of effort just for the sake of

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread slangeberg
Sorry if i missed first half of thread, but isn't the point to create desktop apps - whether online or not? You should see a significant performance increase, if your app is resource intensive, and you will gain access to the filesystem, without using sketchy third-party systems or .NET wrappers.

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Jeffry Houser
I meant to say I doubt Adobe is shelling out a lot of effort just for the sake of providing people the ability to work in an airplane At 12:26 PM 2/5/2007, you wrote: I'll just throw this out there. One of my clams (somewhere in this thread) was The only time you aren't connected is in

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Apollo features

2007-02-05 Thread Troy Gilbert
I think its pretty clear what Adobe is aiming for with Apollo... they're wanting to strike at Microsoft's .NET suite (in the same way that MS is striking at Adobe's suite with WPF/E and Expression). But instead of taking C++ and Java coders and moving them closer to the web (MS with .NET), Adobe