Back to work
19 Feb 2007I am back to work. There are so many things to do, I am going to be busy in coming weeks (months).
I just wanted to update, in-case you were wondering where I have been.
I am back to work. There are so many things to do, I am going to be busy in coming weeks (months).
I just wanted to update, in-case you were wondering where I have been.
Niall Kennedy has posted interesting article, where he compares client-side-storage of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Adobe Flash Player.
Though, the title of post talks only about AJAX, I still find it useful in general. I thought to post it, you might find it useful.
Check it out.
Last year on Jan 31st, I left Adobe (Macromedia). I joined Yahoo! after that and quit Yahoo! too with a wish in mind to take a long break. Break didn’t last long, I joined Nanocast and still working here.
When I looked at date today, I realized time flies when you are busy...
Bruce Eckel, well known for his books (Thinking in Java etc), has written an interesting article where-in he talks about his views about Adobe Flex and other technologies. Thanks to Matt Chotin for posting this link on his blog.
I remember, Bruce Eckel started playing with Adobe Flex in 2005/2006. We saw some mails from him on flexcoders.
Technorati tags: bruce eckel, flex, ria, article
India Adobe Mobile and Devices user-group (IndiMaD) is launched today. Mariam has been working on it for sometime.
If you are working on Adobe FlashLite platform or interested in FlashLite; Please join the group by sending email to [flashliteindia at gmail.com], we can request Mariam to setup registration form and a mailing-list for it.
Let’s start sharing knowledge and developing kick-ass stuff :)
Last year, I talked about my experience with Adobe (Macromedia) online store. Today, I had similar experience while attempting to purchase Adobe FlexBuilder2 for following reasons:-
Well I have dropped the idea of buying FlexBuilder2 after this. Anyway, I am happy with Flex2SDK and VIM.
I am just wondering, why haven’t things changed in last 10-11 months? I was assured by folks that things would get better. I hope, it does. It’s really sad to see how Adobe is ignoring a country like India.
Techcrunch article on Apollo made me think again about Apollo:-
Loads of ideas/questions in my mind. I would wait, think, watch and build. Apollo is still under-development.
Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9 have security-sandbox where-in you can not use BitmapData’s draw (..) on crossdomain images, as I mentioned in one of my posts. There is no easy way of doing it with Flash Player 8, you need some kind of shim/library.swf or server-side proxy.
Fortunately, Adobe Flash Player 9 has some APIs (Loader, LoaderContext) to make life easier, provided you have a crossdomain.xml with right permission on the server hosting images.
Say “ServerA” has main application and “ServerB” hosts image files. You need to place crossdomain.xml in root of “ServerB”. Just having crossdomain.xml is not sufficient, so you need to do something more:-
Note: Following code shows the steps, it’s not a working example.
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest ();
request.url = “http://ServerB/images/foo.jpg”;
//This is important step..
var loaderContext:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext ();
loaderContext.checkPolicyFile = true;
var loader:Loader = new Loader ();
loader.load (request, loaderContext);
//now you can draw.
var bitmapData:BitampData = new BitmapData (200, 200);
bitmapData.draw (loader);
Why we need to this? Doing so would instruct Flash Player not to begin downloading the image file until after attempting to download a policy file. If Flash Player successfully finds policy file with right permission, you are set to do Bitmap drawing.
Believe me, that’s all you need as long as you meet two criteria (crossdomain.xml and checkPolicyFile=true). I would try to post a working example.
Technorati tags: bitmapdata, flashplayer, flash player 9, draw, crossdomain
I have compiled a list of sites, mailing-list and bloggers from India. Most of them blog about Flash, Flex, RIA Usability, Web 2.0 etc.
Website/groups:-
Blogs:-
Above list is partial. If I have missed something, please feel free to leave the URL (of blog, site, mailing-lists etc) in the comment. I would update the list.
If you are Adobe Flex developer, you might want to register on International Registry of Flexcoders.
Technorati tags: flexcoders, flash, developers, blog, india
I noticed following things about Yahoo! Podcasts
I hope, they also provide RSS feeds for categories and search. Then I can use Yahoo! Podcasts more often. Second point is not important, I am not sure how many people listen podcasts online.