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.
Add comment January 24th, 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 more of the specifics of this statement? Are there tests to show the performance differences (now that we have Flash Player 9 for Linux)?
6 comments January 23rd, 2007
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.
As a Flex developer my self and a manager seeking Flex developers its exciting to see the growth in of Flex jobs in the last 6 months since release.
1 comment January 21st, 2007
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 first post here:
http://renaun.com/blog/2006/12/19/170/
and get the update here:
http://api.renaun.com/flex2/posts/CairngormStoreMultipleBackend/CairngormStoreMultipleBackend.zip
PS: Thanks to Pete pointing out the missing file to me.
6 comments January 20th, 2007
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 codec FLV is not part of the Flash Player. Until on2 released their on2 Flix Live product last year there was no product that did “live” VP6 streaming.
With the release of Adobe’s Flash Media Encoder we have an another live encoder, DigitalRapids also has VP6 support through software for their video cards.
The Adobe Flash Media Encoder software it self seems to have promise. I downloaded the software and installed it. At first look it does not look like a typical Windows application but more like a Flash/Flex app wrapped in a exe (I have no real knowledge of what it really is written in).
The Audio options are limited to the NellyMoser codec and up to 32kbps 22Hz Mono. The options for video settings out does on2’s Flix Live software. Also noteworthy is that the FME can save live recordings to file as well as provide a nice log and real time stats of the stream’s bitrate and time.
I couldn’t get it to connect to a FMS but did not have time to test throughly, I was getting some errors on the FMS side that I am not sure if its the FME or the FMS application instance. I’ll try and post more when I have time to play with the application more.
Get FME and the FMS Authentication Plugin-In off the labs now - http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/fme.html
Add comment January 19th, 2007
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.
Add comment January 18th, 2007
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 services application for server-side messaging and data integration. Easy connections for Web services and Java objects bolster this very good choice for enterprise RIA scenarios.
Direct link here!
Add comment January 16th, 2007
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 does not work any more.
Anyone else run across this problem? is it a known issue/bug?
5 comments January 9th, 2007
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 new to Flex the main installers will be Flex 2.0.1 from here on out.
Well, for the heck of it I installed a new full Flex Builder 2.0.1 over my Flex Builder 2 to see what would happen. Needless to say I am not sure what it did, but when I tried to compile my projects I would get the following errors:
1172: Definition mx.core:IFlexModule could not be found.
1144: Interface method create in namespace mx.core:IFlexModuleFactory is implemented with an incompatible signature in class _HelloWorldTest_mx_managers_SystemManager.
1023: Incompatible override.
1120: Access of undefined property IFlexModule.
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method IFlexModule.
I tried new projects, new workspaces and new applications, nothing got rid of the errors. Then I went back and downloaded the proper Flex 2.0.1 updater for Flex Builder 2 and everything work fine.
Here is a good link with both the Flex 2 updater and try downloads to the current full installs.
1 comment January 6th, 2007
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