The title is quoting Jeff Whatcott, vice president of marketing at Adobe, responding to the Evans Data Corporation’s newly released 2007 Scripting Languages – Developers Choice Report. If you want to buy the report get it at 2007 Scripting Languages – Developers Choice Report. The news release is located here.
Monthly Archives: January 2007
I was reading the “Interview with Mike Downey, Sr. Product Manager for Apollo” over on Ryan Stewart’s blog and came across something. When asked about hardware acceleration Mike said, We’ve already made some good progress starting with Flash Player 8 where we added DirectX and OpenGL optimizations to boost graphics performance. Does any one know [...]
Ted Patrick recently posted about a Flex jobs yahoo list, located at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexjobs/. In the 24 hours of being up it has over 20 job postings. That is great for the Flex community. Other resources for job postings can be found at: The “Flex Jobs” google group page. Tariq over at CFlex.net keeps a list. [...]
I posted about an Flex example using Cairngorm Store and multiple backends (ColdFusion Remoting and WebServices, AMFPHP using AMF0 and AMFPHP 1.9 alpha using AMF3). I goofed and forgot to put one updated file into the download. It was a change to the ProductVO to handle some WebService VO property conversion. You can read my [...]
This is a very interesting announcement and addition to the Labs site. When Flash 8 came out they introduced a new Flash video codec called VP6 by the company on2. This codec has many benefits compared to the previous Spark codec. But the slight problem with live encoding is that the live encoder for VP6 [...]
The FMS team just released an updater to the 2.x server. The update fixes a few bugs, many relating to on2 streams. You can get the update here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashmediaserver/downloads_updaters.html Here are the release notes: http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashmediaserver/204/releasenotes.html A big thanks for the FMS developers and their hard work.
Flex 2 has won the prized spot for best Rich Internet Application platform in InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology of the Year Award: App Dev category. Adobe Flex 2.0 Adobe Flex 2.0 constitutes a big leap forward for this RIA platform, thanks to a new Eclipse-based IDE for drag-and-drop layout and code management, and a separate data [...]
I have a very basic Flex application loading a Flash 8 SWF that communicate to each other through ExternalInterface. I run the application through Flex Builder 2.0.1, when I run it normally the code works. But when I run it in debug mode so the Flex application is running in the debug player the ExternalInterface [...]
With all the blog posts about the arrival of the Flex 2.0.1 update there can be some confusion about where the correct installer is. The main crux of it is that if you have Flex 2 products installed (Flex Builder, Flex Data Services, etc…) you want to get a updater download, and if you are [...]
