Adobe Developer Derby Extended to May 31st

When looking over the Adobe Developer Derby on the labs site I had noticed some date differences. On April 22, 2006 my search was this: This page says “Submit your application by 11:59 p.m., Pacific Time, May 31, 2006.” http://labs.macromedia.com/showcase/special/flexderby/ This page says “Entries must be received by May 1, 2006.” http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=flexderby_submission I sent an...

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Flash Player 9 and Flash 9 (“Blaze”)

Flash Player 8.5 will be move to version 9, mostly likely because of all the major changes it entails. New VM new AS version etc… The other interesting thing is the Flash authoring tool buzz. The next generation Flash authoring tool is code-named “Blaze”. Here is a snippet from the macromedia dev center. However, we will be releasing an alpha version of Blaze in the spring of 2006 that will include ActionScript 3.0 support....

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2 links that just affected me

First one is Jumpcut.com, I have a similiar idea to what Jumpcut.com is doing. I have to give lots of credit for a very nice implementation. The next is Jesse Warden’s captivate movie of a example of using mProjector and Flex 2 Flex 1.5 as a desktop application. Renaun

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Flex2, Cairngorm2, AMFPHP login example

I have created an example showcasing Flex2 Beta2, Cairngorm2 and AMFPHP. It uses a custom RemoteObjectAMF0 component I created. The custom component allows access to AMF0 format services. The access tries to mimic a subset of what you can do with the Flex 1.5 RemoteObject. It does not support all the features of Flex 1.5 RemoteObject and is first draft code, but it can work nicely in the context of Cairngorm’s Service.mxml...

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Mobile 5 and PocketPC Flash Player 7, Flex works!

The new Flash Player for Mobile 5 and Pocket PC can be found here Link to Flash Player 7 PocketPC. I have tried out the download and it installed fine on my Treo 700w. So far with my limited testing I see my flex application trying to initialize and load when it bonks out and gives me an out of memory error. I just tested FLV’s they play but the devices CPU speed will make a big difference if it works or not. It was choppy probably from...

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