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Beyond the Browser
Arpit Mathur, our Flash wiz at CIM, has posted a nifty summary of different approaches being taken to extend the browser's capabilities to the desktop.
To the list, let me add a few more desktop development platforms, that are network leveraging:
Firefox, irregardless of Prism, is already a capable sometimes-connected desktop application environment (witness Songbird - an open source project I might dig into, because I am just unhappy with the state of current mp3 players). However, Prism sure does seem interesting and worth keeping an eye on.
And while Arpit did cover the Flash side of things (Air), I love contemplating Flex+Python or Flex+Java approaches. Bruce Eckel's article in Artima on the subject maps to the way I think. There is a lot of re-use and maintenance problems you solve when you layer an application that way.
An earlier project I worked on was a communications application that utilized a Flash UI hosted in a C# application. It worked intriguingly well.
Karl at Friday, May 30, 2008 | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Flex, Spring, BlazeDS (oh my!)
Looks like a tutorial I want to take: "Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 1)"
Karl at Friday, May 23, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Flex, Flash, and Comcast Interactive Media's Fan 4.0 Alpha
The team I belong to at Comcast, Comcast Interactive Media, released an alpha version of our video player, The Fan, this week.
You can give it a try here. If I say so myself, it's pretty sweet.
While more information is available on its official cimLabs page, including links to give feedback, I'd like to point you towards one of its developers, Arpit Mathur, and his blog entry about it.
This version of The Fan was built with Adobe's Flex and Arpit has a lot to share about the project. Feel free to leave a comment and tell him what you think.
As Arpit mentions, we're on the lookout for Flash developers. But there's more to the CIM story than Flash. In fact, the development stack we use at CIM resembles what Bruce Eckel proposed in a piece called "Hybridizing Java" on Artima a while back. We are looking for experienced Web developers of all stripes to join us. Check out cimLife for more.
Update:
Arpit's post about the new version of the Fan is earning some buzz.
RIApedia: Comcast Launches New Flex Based Video Site
Masable: The Fan - Comcast's New Flex Video Site
Ryan Stewart: Comcast jumps into Flex 2 for media content
Shelley Powers: Cool Thingie
Update:
Aaron Held, my manager at CIM, checks in with more about Flash, Java, and The Fan.
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Follow the linkage on Techmeme.
Karl at Friday, April 13, 2007 | Comments (2) | TrackBack
A million thank you's (thank youse that is)
Karl at Friday, September 1, 2006 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Coworker and friend showcased at Adobe Labs
I've been far to busy to write here lately, but wanted to share this with you: Arpit Mathur has a sweet Flex-built mp3 player that shows off a little of what Flex can do when building a mashup that combines media, storage, and identity (in this case Box.net, Flickr, YouTube and Amazon). He built this in very little time, so it has a few quirks and bugs, but hey, it's a proof of concept. They've been featuring it at Adobe Labs over the weekend. Check out FlexAmp here (Flash 9 required).
Karl at Sunday, June 4, 2006 | Comments (0) | TrackBack