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 believe that this is an exciting value proposition for our customers including unparalleled...

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 a Red 5 server application but getting Flex 2 to work with an existing Red 5 sample server application. All you’ll need to do is install Red 5 and make sure the...

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 examples have been contributed to the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe source repository. You can find the two examples on the google code PHP RIA SDK repository...

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 do a little soft shoe, scrubbing as I shower. But I won’t rest until I bring the pulling power of 20-Mule Team BORAX to the issue of...

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 mail sample application on IFBIN a while back (I think last year). I also read posts today where people are using sockets in Flex/AS3 to connect to SVN directly or MySQL...