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Flashy iPhone excitement

February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

There is a lot of support from different sources (Apple Insider) that Adobe and Apple are going to support Flash. Boy am I excited.
I love the aesthetics of the iPhone.  It is a very well made device.  However, as a developer that makes web applications, Flex/Flash is my tool of choice.  I mean REAL Internet [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · flash · flex

Adobe opens the door to independant online distribution

January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Adobe is releasing the specification to the (RTMP) protocols that flash player uses.  In a nut shell.
“… developers will be free to use their own technological measures to secure content. The RTMP specification does not provide any requirement or restrictions on a developer’s own measures to secure content.”
See the full Adobe release here.
This is [...]

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Tags: Adobe · DRM · IPTV · codecs · flash · flex

Javascript frameworks. Is it the future?

September 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

An interesting post on TechCrunch was pointed out to me today by Philip Hodgetts.  Philip has been putting his acceptance behind the open-web based around the push by Apple into WebKit/javascript and Javascript frameworks like Sproutcore. (Note this can also now be said for Google and the new Chrome browser) Today we have another contender [...]

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

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 · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards · flash · flex

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 as [...]

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