Web on the piste (gotta love the pun) is one week away. Its New Zealand's big conference about rich internet technologies. 

www.webonthepiste.com

I unfortunately wont be heading down, but a lot of the Flex User group people will be, and Adobe has been kind enough to sponsor an event for our NZ user groups, User Groups On the Piste.

Head on over to David Harris's blog for more details all laid out with pretty css. Thanks to David and Kai for putting in the hard yards and getting this organised. I'm more than sure it will be a great time and cool to catch up with a lot of the ground breaking stuff us Kiwi's are doing over here.

If you want to catch up at the Usergroup meetup, even if you aren't apart of a group your welcome, but please RSVP as spaces are filling and you don't want to miss out. 

Saw this over on ApolloCoders mailing list:

Q: " I know this is probably a stretch, but can an AIR app bind tcp ports
and listen for requests?  I know outgoing socket connections are
available."

A: "No, it cannot. That is being considered for a future release.

–
Oliver Goldman
AIR Engineering
Adobe Systems Inc. "

This is the major hold back of true P2P apps for the flash player(AIR platform). It is something I have been wishing for, for a while now, and I know many others have been too. Time to speak up and let Adobe know. Leave a comment on here or ping the ApolloCoders mailing list

*Steps down off soapbox and gives back to Scott Barnes* 

UPDATE: "…this isn't possible with AIR, and isn't planned for 1.0." Christian Cantrell

Seems we wont have it in time for christmas Hope Oliver did get in trouble, I just like to quote my sources properly. If you did Oliver I owe you some beers

Thats right kiddies, from the smart people who brought you FZip, you can now make updating your AIR app alot easier.

I caught this through the apollocoders mmailing list, that côdeazur brasil lab have just released AIR Remote Updater.

"The AIR Remote Updater is an Actionscript 3 class to automate remote software updates in Adobe AIR applications. It transparently checks version numbers, downloads the .AIR installer file if needed and triggers the AIR-native update process. It grabs the version number directly from  the remote .AIR file without having to download the entire file, eliminating the potential error prone need of having to put a separate descriptor file online along with the .AIR installer file."

Nice work again guys!