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Flex on Mixx

enefekt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:49:06 +0000

There are so many online communities out there already, but I was curious when Mixx debuted their “Communities”.
Figured I would create a community just for Flex. I don’t know if there is enough value in a mini Digg-like community just for Flex developers and designers, but I guess we can find out … introducing:

flex.mixx.com

It is open registration for members, so if you think it might be cool, join up!

Updated Flash Player 9.0.124.0 Security Gotcha

enefekt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:19:09 +0000

Just got done spending my afternoon tracking this one down. Had a Flash app on one domain, calling some web services from another.

The crossdomain.xml policy file worked perfectly fine up until 9.0.124.0 (Which BTW gets automatically installed with the Mac OS 10.5.3 update), then stopped working.

Started getting the:

Request for resource at (url) by requestor from (url) is denied due to lack of policy file permissions.

Set up the policy logging, and found out the WSDLs were being loaded just fine, but everything failed when it came to actually calling a service.

Pored over the security article on Adobe’s site. Couldn’t find anything.
Finally ended up stumbling on this TechNote, which solved the problem for me.
After finding the problem, also saw the section in the Flash Player 9 Security PDF.

What was needed?

allow-http-request-headers-from

Needed to allow the SOAP headers.

Hopefully this might help someone else.

Flash Player on 3G iPhone?

enefekt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:09:09 +0000

Here we go again. Via MacRumors, Apple has filed a patent application that seems to cover some of the rumored features for the next 3G iPhone on the 2.0 software.

The interesting bit is what the application says about our very own beloved Flash Player:

“In some embodiments, the content can be played with a QuickTime, Windows Media, or Flash plugin”

So will this be in the distant future, or on Monday?

Google Maps ActionScript 3 API

enefekt — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:08:40 +0000

Nice, via Read Write Web, Google has released a Flash API for Google Maps in ActionScript 3! Nice to be skipping right over some of those annoying LocalConnection hassles with these APIs when using Flex/AS3.

Speaking of Google, LocalConnection, and APIs, has anyone wrapped up a LocalConnection lib to use the YouTube Chromeless Player APIs yet? I know there is some rough sample code in their forum, but is there a project that puts this all in one spot to use as a library?

Flex/ActionScript Developer Wanted - UW Madison

enefekt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:46 +0000

What do fried cheese curds, spotted cows, and developing simulations, games, and educational applications in Flex have in common? Madison, WI baby!

If you are interested in working with the educational and academic community in Madison for the University of Wisconsin, and have strong skills and background with client-side development with a focus on Flex and ActionScript, then apply right now!

View the job description and apply!

New YouTube APIs Released!

enefekt — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:50 +0000

Issue 82 has finally been closed. We now have new YouTube APIs. What’s really cool is the new Player API, which includes:

Ability to control playback and access current state of media, and receive notification of important events.
API accessible from both JavaScript and Flash (ActionScript 2)
New chromeless player to implement your own controls and skin!

Authentication, uploading and internationalized feeds are also a part of this release!

Update: Watch the video in the announcement post, and you’ll see that Geoff Stearns (OG SWFObject guy) was one of the guys who worked on this. Congrats Geoff!

WaSP Adobe Task Force

enefekt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:24:36 +0000

The Adobe Task Force will collaborate with Adobe on all of the company’s products that output code or content to the Web, and will continue to advocate compliance with Web Standards and accessibility guidelines by those who use Adobe’s products to design and build Web sites and applications.

Blog post

Press Release

Inside RIA: Mozilla Series Part 3

enefekt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:56:36 +0000

Heads up. The last part to the series I’ve written, entitled “Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention”, is up on InsideRIA now.

In case you missed the first two, here they are.

New YouTube Players from SWFObject Founder

enefekt — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:32:05 +0000

Geoff Stearns must be really busy, he’s just come up for some air to let us know how 2008 has been going. What fell out of that post as really cool news to me is that he’s working on virtually brand new YouTube video players. These have to rock, and I’m looking forward to them!

Wonder if they’re related to this YouTube Player GData issue on a player API? What, you haven’t seen that issue? Which means you haven’t voted for it, so go there, log-in with your gmail address, and vote for it!!

After logging in just click on the star in the upper left corner next to the issue number to vote for it.

Some Mozilla RIA Love

enefekt — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:42:42 +0000

Just a heads up, I’m writing a series of articles dealing with Mozilla and RIAs over on InsideRIA entitled “Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention”.
Go check it out!