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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. [...]

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

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 · flash · flex · google · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards

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