The impact of Adobe acquiring Serious Magic might of interest to anybody doing FLV creation at a consumer level. Adobe’s is even recognizing YouTube and MySpace use of Flash Video. Is this Adobe’s first acquistion related to Flash technology since their merger, probably not. But either way its cool to see Adobe building upon their [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Ok, if you haven’t seen the last 7 or so posts on MXNA (Flex category) about Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux go read Emmy Huang’s post. I decided to give it a try. So I installed Ubuntu on my VMWare workstation and installed the Linux FP9 player. The install was pretty straight forward, I [...]
As more people are using the RemoteObjectAMF0 the component receives some updates. The update is in regards to the "makeObjectsBindable" attribute that is present on Flex RPC service components. I used the HTTPService's makeObjectsBindable documentation to implemented a part of what makeObjectsBindable might do. If makeObjectsBindable is true then the Array will be wrapped in [...]
Check out the high profile news release by Kodak, stating they used Adobe PDF Print Engine and Adobe Flex technology to build their workflow system called Prinergy. Here is a snippet from the prelease: The KODAK PRINERGY 4 workflow system for unprecedented flexibility to customize, manage and automate conventional and digital print workflows. Within its [...]
I did not put a working example of the Basic Chat example using Flex 2 and Red 5 up on my server early. I needed to install Red 5 to be able to put it up. I wasn't sure when I was going to be able to get to it so I posted the code [...]
You can find the news release here. The deal is worth about $217 million and is to happen by first quarter 2007. Here is the main quote from the CEO of VitalStream: “Internap’s acquisition of VitalStream is a business combination that creates a scalable public company with complementary product lines and accelerated growth potential. We [...]
NOTE: This is old code and will probably not work since Red 5 has progressed. The Flex 2 code is still a good basis of how to use NetConnection and NetStream. I have created a basic chat example using Flex 2 and Red 5. The purpose of this example is not so much about building [...]
If you use PHP and want to see some examples of how to use it with Adobe technology, specifically Flex, you need to check out the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe. I have in the past created two simple examples of how to use AMFPHP and Flex to return typed object data with PHP. These [...]
My good friend Scott Fallin has enlightened me a little on how to super charge AJAX: The rich internet experience brought to you by AJAX pales as I bring COMET to bear on each RIA issue that arises. My components are blindingly white! I liberally shake my technology onto the porcelain of my tub and [...]
Yahoo just announced they will be given away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail. The Yahoo team has already done a good job at creating a nice Flex API for their Yahoo Maps (made for Flex 1.5). Will we see an internal or external Flex 2 API for Yahoo Mail. I saw a Flex 1.5 [...]
