Rounding Up a Mournful Week

Posted by Sravan | June 29, 2009 .

Towards the end of last week, Farah Fawcett was followed by Michael Jackson was followed by Billy Mays. Gawker has some interesting statistics about how the news about MJ’s death melted the entire Internet, and Lee Brimelow tweeted that he was thinking about approaching Billy Mays for a joke infomercial for Adobe.
The first Android smartphone [...]

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RIAs at the Enterprise Level

Posted by Sravan | June 18, 2009 .

The penetration of RIAs into the consumer world is beyond doubt. We have numbers supporting that time and again. To that extent, RIAs are here to stay. However, I sometimes wonder the scenario when it comes to enterprise apps.
Let us exclude AJAX for the sake of discussion because most GUIs these days are being built [...]

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Adobe RTMP Specification Available

Posted by Sravan | June 17, 2009 .

Nearly five months after announcing that the Real Time Messaging Protocol would be made open, Adobe has finally made it available (PDF Alert!). The seventy-page spec is a set of four documents explaining the license, the RTMP chunk stream, the message formats, and the command messages.
RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol) is the multimedia protocol used [...]

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Rounding Up An Eventful Week

Posted by Sravan | June 16, 2009 .

Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR has now been installed over 200 million times. Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the [...]

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Generating Speech With AIR and Java

Posted by Sravan | June 11, 2009 .

Rich Tretola recently posted a nice AIR/Java example for voice applications. The inspiration came from the ColdFusion Jedi Raymond Camden who posted an example of generating speech with ColdFusion and Java.
Both examples essentially use an underlying TTS (text-to-speech) system. They use Java-based FreeTTS here but you could use any of the TTS systems freely available. [...]

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Silex, the June Sourceforge POTM

Posted by Sravan | June 10, 2009 .

Silex is an open source RIA that can be used to build Flash Web sites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. It is a CMS which can handle a wide variety of media, comes with an online WYSIWYG editor, automatically generates deep linking for your SWFs, and creates on-the-fly HTML versions for each [...]

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Rounding Up Another Flex 4 and Flash Catalyst Week

Posted by Sravan | June 8, 2009 .

The Adobe Flex team is conducting three free online seminars this week covering the new features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst. A session each for PHP developers, Flash Catalyst, and ColdFusion developers will be conducted this Tue, Wed and Thu respectively.
Lee Brimelow uploaded a two-part tutorial on Flex Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst.
Carlos [...]

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Updates About Flash SEO

Posted by Sravan | June 4, 2009 .

One of our readers recently had the following doubts:
Have there been any advances in search engines recognising flash sites?
Been a couple of years since I did an entire site in flash and wondered if anything had moved on in that direction.
I wondered if submitting an XML site map to google with relevant descriptions and titles [...]

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Editing Clips Using RichFLV

Posted by Sravan | June 2, 2009 .

RichFLV is a great tool but has no public documentation. I have received mails from quite a few users who were lost about how to use it, the latest one being today. I hope this brief post helps all you people and saves some frustration.
File Menu
You can’t drag and drop a FLV file into opened [...]

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