Monthly Archives: November 2005

Vendor Lock-in & Open Source Lock-in

Posted on November 19, 2005 by admin

Vendor Lock-in; Heard this term before at a big company from a co-worker deciding to use a technology. Didn’t know wtf he was talking about at the time… now I do. I’ve seen the term thrown around a lot by … Continue reading →

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FlashVNC by Darron Schall

Posted on November 16, 2005 by admin

Schweet… he finally released it. You can get the down low here, but basically Darron wrote a VNC client in Flash; it connects to the TightVNC server. In spite of the Flashcom pricing insanity discussions currently going on, this proves … Continue reading →

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XMLHttpRequest vs. XML vs. URLLoader: API Comparisons

Posted on November 15, 2005 by admin

Trying to go for the jugular here. AJAX utilizes XMLHttpRequest class for its asyncronous communication, Flash Player 5 – 8 use XML class, and Flash Player 8.5 utilizes URLLoader (and friends). Let’s compare the things that are different. Request headers, … Continue reading →

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Job: Macromedia Flex Developer

Posted on November 15, 2005 by admin

Title: Macromedia Flex Developer Business solution firm is looking for Macromedia Flex Developers. Mandatory Skills: Macromedia Flex, Cold Fusion, Oracle and SQL, Strong Java, and Web Services/XML would be definite assets. *EXPERIENCE WITH MACROMEDIA FLEX IS MUST* Please apply with … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Boutelle on Flash & AJAX

Posted on November 15, 2005 by admin

Nice to see people speaking about their development experiences, ecspecially when using AJAX & Flash together, something that makes absolutely no frikin’ sense to me. This gives a great insight into how people who are not Flash devs expect to … Continue reading →

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