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Entries Tagged as 'flash'

Where to now developer

July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There is no denying that the future of how we use computer is changing.  The advent of applications that live on the network/Internet is making the developer think twice about where he should be headed.  As a developer, you need to be ahead of the curve as by the time your product is ready your [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Development · flash · flex · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards

Apple Quicktime X, a new Flash/Silverlight competitor.

June 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

The Apple hype engine has been going into overdrive lately about Sproutcore. “What is Sproutcore?” Well, to a long tooth net developer, its JUST ANOTHER JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK.  But to the Apple alumni, its the biggest thing to happen to net applications in a long time. My Web/Javascript programming friends do not even consider sproutcore is [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · flash · flex · Silverlight · Sony

Adobe Flash Player, a bad internet citizen.

June 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Lately I have been doing a lot of Flex and Flash development. This has led me to discover, through issues with my projects, two major BUGS in flash player 9.0.124 (Current version). With the recent release of FlashPlayer 10 beta, I was expecting these bugs to have been addressed. Unfortunatly not. Through sheer frustration I [...]

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Tags: Adobe · flash · flex

Adobe, the Apple killer.

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

If you follow my blog, you will notice that I take a lot of effort in looking at Adobe and what they are doing with their flash technology. To help position this post, let me first refer to previous posts in reverse chronological order: Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation: where I discuss pitfalls in Adobe’s [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · flash · IPTV · P2P

Flash DRM, a disappointing implementation.

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently Adobe released  “Flash Media Rights Management Server“. More details have come to light, and unfortunately it is not good. Follow this link for a good overview of the latest development in the Flash DRM. Unfortunately Adobe appears to have lost the plot here.  The details regarding FMRMS are a strange departure from what appeared [...]

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Tags: Adobe · DRM · flash · flex · IPTV