Category Archives: Flashcom

Silverlight First Impressions

I’m a Flash & Flex Developer, and these are my first impressions of Silverlight. Silverlight is a rich media web browser plug-in that was recently released by Microsoft. This is long. If you’re in a hurry: Why should I care? … Continue reading

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, FlashLite, Flashcom, Flex, Marketing, Silverlight | 12 Comments

Flash Media Server 3 Feature Requests

Steve Wolkoff, Flash Media Server Product Manager, is asking the community for feature requests for the next version of Flash Media Server. I’ve put my comments there, but wanted to post them to myblog as well for reference. 1. A … Continue reading

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Flash Media Server, Flex Builder 2, and ANT

Developing Flex 2 applications that talk with Flash Media Server is really fun.  I’m sure Adobe will tell you that Flex Data Services are the way to go, but that is overkill for a lot of the things I want … Continue reading

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Porting Flashcom Applications to ActionScript 3

Regardless if you Flex or Flash, I ran into a porting issue with a Flashcom app I wrote in Flex 1.5 & ActionScript 2. A lot of the server-side code, which is written in case sensitive JavaScript 1, utilizes the … Continue reading

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NetConnection, SharedObject, & NetStream’s client Property in ActionScript 3

Past two weeks, I’ve been porting over some Flashcom & Flex 1.5 code to Flex 2 (still using FCS 1.5 vs. FMS 2). One nice addition I found in the ActionScript 3 SharedObject class is the client property. This little … Continue reading

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