Winning Strategies for Social Video

You want to take advantage of the social media revolution and you have a great a idea focused around online video. You want to experience some of the growth and success you’ve witnessed YouTube, Tout, Instagram and others achieve. What were the catalysts that madeREAD MORE

Developing Scalable Mobile Video Chat Applications

I’m making the assets and workbook from my lab at Adobe MAX available for download. The attached ZIP contains the following:

• L2709_Presentation.ppt
• L2709_Workbook.pdf
• FlashP2PLib.fxpl
• MAX2011MobileVideoChat.fxp
• EyeChat.fxp
• EyeChatDesktop.fxp

The last two projects are completed versions that you can use for testing or to skip ahead.

I plan to follow up with posts related toREAD MORE

Devising a Social Media Strategy

You’ve noticed the trend, businesses around the globe are embracing social media. Now, you want to harness that same power for your business. First, you need a social business strategy that makes sense for your business. In order to do that, you must consider theREAD MORE

To Offshore or Nearshore? That Is The Question!

In recent years, outsourcing has emerged as a viable means for an organization to contract out a business function, that was previously performed in-house, to an external vendor/provider. The functions targeted can include areas such as business, knowledge or engineering processes, among others. Typically, anREAD MORE

Why IPv6 is a Big Thing

It’s the nature of the universe that all things come to an end. It’s also human nature to dread this universal fact. We tend to look at this “end” as a loss of the permanent variety and we simply hate to lose things when that lossREAD MORE

Flex 4 – Base64 Image Decompression and Decoding

If you ever run into a situation where you need/want to work with Base64-encoded images using AMF, here’s an example of the process involved in retrieving the encoded data packed with GZip compression from the backend. Source view is enabled on the SWF and theREAD MORE

PHP Documentation Tips

Recently had to run PhpDocumentor on a project only to be faced with broken documentation after bringing all class files into compliance with proper comments. At first I thought I was missing a config flag for the command-line but, it turns out that the PhpDocumentor-1.4.3 ZIPREAD MORE

Looking for a Software Architect

There’s an opening for a Software Architect at Almer/Blank, the interactive media agency where I work. If you think your skills are up to it, I personally invite you to check out this position.

We work on a lot of cool and interesting projects and ourREAD MORE

Upgrading Memory on a Macbook Pro 15-inch 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7

This happens to be pretty straight-forward even though Apple recommends you let an Apple Certified Technician (ACT) perform the upgrade. If you happen to do it yourself, you’ll need the following:

1. an 8GB memory upgrade kit
2. Official D-I-Y Instructions
3. Open work area
4. Screwdriver (the Husky HD-74501 works perfectly)

With all theREAD MORE

Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM

If you get this error running Flash Builder or Eclipse on OSX Snow Leopard, it’s because there’s a mismatch between the libraries bundled with the plugin involved and the JVM of the OS. To fix, do one of the following:

1. For Eclipse, go to EclipseREAD MORE