The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is out. In addition to AIR 1.5 being released today, the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is also being released. This book will be an essential resource for anyone doing AIR development - as it also includes the new AIR 1.5 features. This book is an excellent resource for beginners and advanced AIR developers alike. If you have never touched AIR, this book can certainly get you started. In addition, we cover all development angles on this: Flash, Flex, and HTML / JavaScript.

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