On AIR with Flex

Before I start, spend a few seconds going though the links as you come across them.

The Adobe VS Apple war doesn’t seem to get over. We have seen official websites taking offensive & defensive sides, numerous forums and blogs reasoning their opinion and jokes from presenters at developer conferences (Yes I mean Vic Gundotra at Google I/O 2010). The debate on performance of Flash still seems to be going on and on.

Focus is now on Android, a scale for judging the correctness of Apple/Adobe. While I dont deny the ultimate browsing experience provided on iPhones/iPads, here is my take on Android running Flash.
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Google, a search based company. A defining tag for Google until 3 years back.

What would you call it now with Operating Systems, Mobile OS’s, Programming Languages, Web Protocols, Email Redefinitions, An Architect UI for Image Search, VOIP under its belt?

Here is a list of few of Google’s latest products.,
Chormium OS – The Linux-based operating system. This happens to be another open source project from Google, targeted at Netbooks. Google has just given out the OS code, and GDGT.com has already compiled the code and put it up for download.

Google Go – Another open sourced product from Google. The Go Programming Language, with Gordon the gopher as the mascot, as Google claims, is intended to speed up the development process, combining performance with speed. Check out this video for more.

SPDY – An an application-layer protocol, SPDY (pronounced SPeeDY) is an attempt to out-date a protocol we see all day, HTTP. This protocol attempts to transfer files on the internet, faster than we have been doing till today. It attempts to transfer files based on priorities, allowing developers load the REQUIRED content on their webpage first.
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Visitors end up seeing the entire world on the map when GeoCoordinates are not available.

There are two ways to combat this,

Either position map (calculate longitude) based on the timezone from system date,
The entire map is still seen, but the map is positioned with the visitors location at the center.

Below is the map show to a visitor from northern South America, instead of all continents.

Here is how to do it,
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