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The future of the relationship between web designer and technical implementer

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

There is a podcaster, Adam Hay, who does a podcast called RookieDesigner. Recently he asked for submissions of questions. So I have taken the opportunity to make a recording and send it to him. The recording is here. To quickly go over this recording, I talk about future Web trends (What web3.0 may be) in [...]

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Tags: flash · flex · Silverlight

One codec to rule them all, Part2 Web Video

July 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

To follow on from my inital post, lets now look into Web Video.The current players are; Flash Video (H.263 and On2 VP6) Quicktime Video (Older Sorensons, more recent H.264) Microsoft Windows Media 9. If we look at these, it is widely accepted that the most widely used codec is those based on FLASH. A combination [...]

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Tags: codecs · flash · flex · IPTV · Microsoft · Silverlight

Adobe Flex, and its secret source

July 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’ll get straight to it. The Secret sauce is… Drum roll… “Open Source”. Let me explain. Firstly, let me go back many years ago, when I was playing with Flash and Flash Remoting back in the early days when the Flash Remoting Server was $10,000 or there about per server. The price killed the product. [...]

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Tags: flash · flex · Microsoft · Silverlight

Google may have a weakness. Is Silverlight a SilverBullet.

June 5th, 2007 · No Comments

As I posted a glowing comment on Silverlight the other day, I took the time to try and learn more about it. And from what I have seen, it is holding up to its promise. As such, I began to consider the strategic effect of this technology. Silverlight, currently, from what I have seen, will [...]

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Tags: flash · flex · Silverlight

Silverlight, look out Flash

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

There has been much written in the blogisphere about Silverlight and how Microsoft is trying to do a flash killer. Mentioned is its ability to do Video like Flash. Out of all the technology Silverlight has, it is the ability to do Video that is going to make Silverlight a technology that will have a [...]

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Tags: codecs · flash · flex