Category Archives: Server Side

ColdFusion, PHP, and other server related topics.

Philo Comment

Mark Anders mentioned a little about the codenamed Philo release due in the second half of the year. Basically he said it was an Apollo app for Video, also mentioned RSS aggregation. I would love to get more information on this project.

Cairngorm Multiple Backend Example Update

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 [...]

Adobe Flash Media Encoder in Labs

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 [...]

FMS 2.0.4 Updater

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.

All in One – Cairngorm Store Example (ColdFusion, AMFPHP, AMFPHP 1.9, and WebServices)

I have updated the Cairngorm Store multiple backend example. Along with the updated source code I have deploy a live running example. The 4 backends it supports now is ColdFusion Remoting AMF3, AMFPHP AMF0 using the RemoteObjectAMF0 class, AMFPHP 1.9 AMF3, and ColdFusion WebServices. See it live here! Get the source here! To change the [...]

Flex 2 RemoteObject with AMFPHP supporting AMF3

Patrick Mineault has created an alpha update of AMFPHP that now supports AMF3. He is looking for people to test it out. To help with this I have created two simple examples that I have running live on a PHP4/Apache server, as well as have tested on a PHP5/Windows box. Basic Example Return Array of [...]

Flex/AS3 and FMS getting id3 info from mp3′s

There was a question on the FlashMedia mailing list about how to get id3 info from a NetStream with AS3 code. It is actually just like AS2 with some quirks to watch out for. The first is the supported ID3 tags: About supported versions of ID3 tags Flash Media Server supports playback of ID3 text [...]

YouTube to VCast on Verizon

This news announcement sparks a lot of questions in my mind. YouTube moves to the small screen First off its a little confusing because it says, Users who subscribe to Verizon’s Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles. and then states this, The new deal will mean [...]

MGM Grand website makes The edge of Flash list

Now I am from Vegas and have seen the MGM Grand web site for a while now. I believe its one of the greatest examples of Flash Video, Flash, and HTML. The experience and the navigation all comes together really nicely. Edge newsletter “The edge of Flash” Here is the site it self MGM Grand

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 didn’t play nice with RedHat ES4

I have been fighting to get ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 on a RedHat ES4 box. I did a typical install straight from the download (coldfusion-702-lin.bin) to the integration with Apache. Everything seemed fine until I started trying to connect with my Flex 2 applications. I received this error messages, which don’t show up any where on [...]