Adobe Media Player Prerelease is Out
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The heralded Adobe Media Player (formerly codename Philo) has been released (in a prerelease verison) on Adobe Labs. It requires Adobe AIR Beta 2.
Archive for September, 2007
Flex 3 Beta 2 and AIR Beta 2 Are Released
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The Adobe Max release of cool new stuff has begun. Go to Adobe Labs to get the new releases. Also, many of the new “showcase applications” for AIR are also being released – including the much talked about Ebay Desktop application.
Off To Max 2007 Tomorrow
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Tomorrow morning the crew from Georgia Tech Savannah (including me obviously) will be heading up to Chicago. We won’t be in the pre-conference workshops, but we will be there ready to go on Monday! I look forward to seeing all of you guys there. I will be Flickr’ing (as usual) and you [...]
Linux Commandment 1 – Close Thy Ports
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Linux adoption seems to be going through the roof as of late. What does this bring us – a lot of new Linux users. I would be willing to bet that some of those users have set up a basic web server – for development, testing, or even production purposes. When I [...]
Flash Media Server 3 Unveiled
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Adobe released a press release regarding Flash Media Server 3 today. The FAQ below gives the details of the next release. So much of this is exciting! However, I was quite disappointed that the server-side scripting will still be Actionscript 1. At least the client side will be Actionscript 3 - [...]
AIR Tip 4 - Calling a SOAP Webservice
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Getting information from multiple locations on the Internet for a single application is commonplace these days. It is one of many things that makes AIR such a great application platform.
To begin with, we are going to be dealing with a very simple Coldfusion component. The component contains one function "getStuff". If you [...]
Flash Player Future
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Ted Patrick had an intriguing post on the future of the Flash Player (in relation to the Silverlight release) on his blog.
"At Adobe MAX 2007 in Chicago we are going showing off the next full release of Flash Player code named "Astro". The features are mind numbing and add capabilities far beyond anything the market [...]
