Exposing a spammer: First-Rate.com

05/10/2008 12:03 pm by Aral Balkan in General

I hate blog spammers. Normally, you can't really track down who is responsible for blog spam and there's very little you can do about it. You get angry and delete the comment and feel wholly inadequate. However, today, I saw some spam on my blog from a company called First Rate based in New Zealand, [...]

Adobe Community Summit 2008

05/09/2008 12:11 pm by Peter Elst in General

For the next week I’ll be in San Jose, CA for the annual Adobe Community Summit with fellow community experts and user group managers. This is always one of my personal highlights of the year, we get to see some of the exciting projects that are being worked on and hang out with project managers, engineers [...]

You wanna piece of me?

05/06/2008 12:50 pm by Aral Balkan in General

I love trying new things with Moo cards whenever I run out of a batch. This time around, I thought it would be fun to take one large image and break it up into a hundred small cards to create a Moo card mosaic. I started with a lovely photo of myself as The Phantom of [...]

Google App Engine meetup at XTech?

05/05/2008 12:04 pm by Aral Balkan in General

I'm heading over to Dublin in a few hours to present at XTech and I'm wondering if anyone wants to meet up informally to meet/talk/hack Google App Engine. I've set up an event on Upcoming. Please add your thoughts + suggest a good time. I think we should have it at the hotel where the [...]

Pistach.io entering beta testing

05/03/2008 02:30 pm by Aral Balkan in General

Pistach.io is entering beta testing. You've probably noticed the Pistach.io ad on my site for a little while now. Peter Elst was helping us alpha test the ad rotation. Seb's got his badge up as well and the other beta testers from the Pistach.io Flash Pack will be adding theirs shortly. So what's Pistach.io and the [...]

Enabling incompatible extensions with FireFox 3 Beta 5

05/03/2008 01:46 pm by Aral Balkan in General

I just upgraded to FireFox 3 Beta 5 and immediately felt the loss of FireBug. Although FireFox can't automatically locate an update for it, FireBug 1.1 works in Beta 5 so grab it now! Also feeling the loss of my del.icio.us bookmarks, HTML Validator plugin, and Alexa rating graph, I googled for a possible solution and [...]

Accessibility and Flex: we can do better.

05/03/2008 01:24 pm by Aral Balkan in General

By default, Flex Builder creates inaccessible SWF files. Bad decision. This needs to change. Enabling accessibility features for The GAE SWF Project resulted in an 8KB file size increase in the SWF file. I can live with that. Creating inaccessible SWF files to save a couple of KB is no savings at all. The Flex accessibility overview [...]

Certification PrepKit 10% discount

05/02/2008 07:42 am by Daniel Tome's blog in General

uCertify has offered my blog readers a 10% discount on the PrepKit of their choice.Just enter the discount code: DANIAL Go here for the Adobe Certification Expert kit

Big news: Flash goes completely open

05/01/2008 11:57 am by Aral Balkan in General

The SWF format is now totally open. Rejoice! This is big news: Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications as part of their new Open Screen Project 2008. When Mark Doherty emailed me to tell me about his post on Adobe's Open Screen Project 2008, I wasn't expecting such [...]

Kevin Lynch on the Open Screen Project

05/01/2008 08:16 am by Peter Elst in General

Kevin Lynch did a great video explaining with the Open Screen Project is all about, definitely worth a look if you want a little more background information on the announcement. SWF Technology Center FLV/F4V Technology Center addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peterelst.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2F01%2Fkevin-lynch-on-the-open-screen-project%2F'; addthis_title = 'Kevin+Lynch+on+the+Open+Screen+Project'; addthis_pub = 'peterelst';

Adobe removes all restrictions on SWF and FLV specs

05/01/2008 06:16 am by Flex Daddy in General

Adobe has announced the Open Screen Project http://www.openscreenproject.org/, an initiative dedicated to driving consistent experiences across all devices including mobile phones, personal computers, consumer devices and more Specifically, this work will include: Removing restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications Publishing the device porting layer APIs for Adobe Flash Player Publishing the Adobe Flash® Cast™ protocol [...]

What sucks about Erlang

05/01/2008 04:43 am by Manish Jethani in General

Interesting write-up by Damien Katz on the drawbacks of the Erlang language.

He’s back!

04/30/2008 10:25 pm in General

This time with lots of new features for you to play with, Mathieu Badimon released new version of Five3D package. Brand new Five3D 2.1 now have: Back Face Culling Flat Shading Z-Sorting Space Drawing Functions (moveToSpace, lineToSpace, curveToSpace) Bitmap3D Class Video3D Class Sprite2D Class Letter Spacing for DynamicText3D Text Width for DynamicText3D This is serious, I was finally able to make my cube test work: What [...]

Keith Peters on Film in Toronto, co-starring, Eric Natzke, Hugh Elliot, and Phillip Kerman!

04/29/2008 01:56 am in General

NFL Draft

04/28/2008 03:47 pm in General

Guided tour of MSH

04/28/2008 01:37 am by Manish Jethani in General

I've been reading a few "getting started" articles over the weekend (including one about Django and another on Rails). Tonight I read a 13-page article about the Microsoft Command Shell (MSH) in Vista. It's from back in 2005, so it might be a little outdated, but it still makes for a very interesting read. It's cool [...]

Shell scripting for fun and profit

04/27/2008 11:04 pm by Aral Balkan in General

Shell scripts are very useful little things. Google App Engine makes deploying apps a single-line affair, but I was still finding myself going through a series of steps when deploying updates to The GAE SWF Project, mostly because I wanted to release the source code as a zip file for download. So, I hacked together [...]

Taking up Tennis Again

04/25/2008 09:39 pm in General

The GAE SWF Project version 1.34

04/24/2008 07:01 pm by Aral Balkan in General

I've moved the common base classes for the framework to the actionscript folder in the root of the project. Add this folder to your class path in both Flash and Flex projects. Note that your document class in Flash projects should extend org.gaeswf.flash.BaseApplication and your Application MXML in Flex should be of type org.gaeswf.flex.BaseApplication (if none [...]

Red5, Infrared5, once again from the top…

04/24/2008 01:12 pm in General

After numerous conversations this past week at FiTC, I feel I need to reiterate a few things about who I work for and what I do… 1. I do NOT work for Red5. In fact, NOBODY works for Red5. Red5 is not a company. Red5 is a server. It is an open source project. It is [...]

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