Well there is a new way to stream video content via Flash 10.1. Prior to the launch of Flash 10.1 you had to use either “RTMP streaming” or “progressive download”. With the launch of 10.1 and using FMS (Flash Media Server) you can now deliver your content with the added bonus of letting the end user skip to any position without waiting (DVR capabilities to a live HTTP stream). A full tutorial can be found here.
If you use my open source GFS Server you might be interested to know that I have updated the project files to use Netbeans 6.8, Apache Mina 1.1.7, as well as the latest SFL4J and MySQL JDBC Connector. No code has been modified in this update.
You can head over to the Google Code site to check it out as well as see some of the plans I have for the future including updating the examples to use by default the new Flash Pro CS5 and FlashBuilder 4 products.
Several years ago there was a socket server for Flash called Unity. Well, recently Unity has been reborn (re-written actually) as the Union Platform. The same developers (Colin Moock and Derek Clayton) are still hard at work making connecting Flash/Flex applications via sockets as easy as possible. Keep in mind the spec for Union’s message format is open so I’d assume you could connect clients like Silverlight, thick clients, etc. to Union as well. This is going to be an excellent platform for building online games, chat applications, and much more.
Up until now I believe the only “official” API for Facebook was the PHP one built by Facebook. Well that has now changed.
Get the information and goodies here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/facebook/
This is going to be a simple tutorial to show you how easy it is to use Flex to read in XML from a Ruby on Rails application.
At Adobe MAX 2008 I seen several blog postings about something called “Cocomo“. It seems Adobe has been busy adding more and more content to their already powerful Acrobat.com site (Buzzword is one of my favorites). Today we will take a look at building a chat program in Flex Builder 3 that will use Cocomo as the back end.
For many people who have used Adobe’s Flash or Flex products long enough they have probably at some point wanted to write a chat program, realtime applications (stock quotes, sports scores, etc.) or perhaps a multi-player online game but maybe the complexity kept you from actually doing that. Never fear, there are many great tools out there now to help you achieve this goal. Today we’ll look at xSocket and we’ll build a Flash CS3 application that connects to a socket server, posts some information that will be echoed back, and then we’ll “remotely” shutdown the socket server from our Flash application.
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