Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Bus Tour

The recent release of Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) has created buzz around related Adobe products. Two of these products are Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR.

According to Adobe's Website . . .

• Adobe Flex is a cross-platform development framework for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs).
  
• Adobe AIR (formerly code-named Apollo) is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Flash, Flex, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
  

If you are confused as I am, help is on the way.

Get on The Bus

An 18-city road show travels up the I-95 corridor this week starting in Washington, DC and visiting Baltimore and Philadelphia before arriving in Boston on Friday.

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Bus Tour will open its doors at 9:15 am Friday and conduct technical sessions, showcases and discussions. The bus will be parked at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in South Boston. [Directions]

InfoWorld offers two articles to help you get up to speed on these latest technologies:

• The ABCs of RIAs
  
• Adobe AIR Fulfills Hopes for Cross-Platform Developers
  

The Web continues to change faster than the Boston Celtics starting lineup. Get on the bus this Friday or risk being left behind.