Free Adobe AIR Events

This news is a bit old, but if you are interested in learning more about the Adobe Integrated Runtime, you should check out Adobe’s on AIR Bus Tour.  The tour is an 18 city road show where you can learn how to bring your AJAX or Flex web applications to the desktop.  Each event is free to attend and include many very cool sessions.  I will be at the event in Vancouver on July 11th, so if you live in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver Island area, I hope to see you there!  This is a very forward-thinking marketing method that Adobe is using and since it’s based around education I really applaud them.

Learning Regular Expressions (Video Tutorial and Cheatsheet)

The makers of the E Text Editor have produced a nice Learning Regular Expressions Video Tutorial and Cheatsheet. Although they apply regular expressions within their text editor product, there is lots of knowledge that you can transfer to your scripting/programming endeavors. I think a lot of readers of Digital Media Minute will not particularly have a use for this video tutorial but if you have tried to understand regular expressions and had difficulty doing so, I watched the first few minutes of this 16-minute video and I can vouch for its clear-cut, straightforward approach to regular expressions. They even include  an additional cheat sheet/ quick reference guide.