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

Running Android on an iPhone 3G

Ran across this video from the iDroid team @ linuxoniphone.blogspot.com that demonstrates an iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android. The demo covers several typical usage scenarios like web browsing, music playback, SMS and making phone calls. Looks stable enough for me to turn my 3Gs intoREAD MORE

Apple vs. Adobe – Hero’s Perspective

After reading Steve Job’s dismissive stance on Adobe’s Flash technology, I felt compelled to add my two cents on the subject by penning my own letter to Steve.

Dear Steve,

After reviewing your recent comments regarding Flash and the recent amendments to the Apple Developer TOS,READ MORE

Using a Custom AdvancedDataGridHeaderRenderer to Display a Custom Image

You decide to use an AdvancedDataGrid to display your data and for one of the columns you would prefer to use an icon instead of a text label to indicate the kind of data this column represents.

First step is building the renderer. You canREAD MORE

Adobe Stepping Up Its Game

The next version of Flash Player will offer a lot of enhancements to the user experience and it seems Adobe listened to the developer community on a few of the features. Here’s one that is sure to be huge:

“File Reference runtime access — Bring usersREAD MORE

Getting Some …rest

Thought I’d blog about this since I haven’t seen this posted before and it comes up from time to time. With AS3, we got access to a new function parameter, the …rest parameter, which allows us to pass in a dynamic list of parameters for usageREAD MORE

TextMate + Flex SDK + Ant

This is a pretty sweet combination. TextMate has been my favorite text editor on the Mac for a while although I must confess that I hadn’t been taking advantage of all it’s features. Through “bundles”, you can transform TextMate from an ordinary editor into a completeREAD MORE

FMS 3 Officially Released Today!!

Finally, the wait is over. In case you’ve been in the dark on the developments, here’s some of what makes FMS 3 so attractive:

- Unlimited bandwidth/users - Better performance (ie, more streams, users per box) - RTMPE (new version of RTMP that helps secure yourREAD MORE

FITC Hollywood 2007 – Day 1

There were a lot of cool presentations during the 1st-half of the day. Here’s a rundown of the ones that received good reviews:

- AS2 to AS3 Migration (Stacey Mulcahy) - AS3 Events: The Whole Story (Jacob Bullock) - Motion XML (Chris Charlton/Omar Gonzalez) - ThinkREAD MORE

It’s Official Now…

I’m an authorized Adobe Flex Developer Community Champion! What is that? you may ask. This is a group of developers that are very passionate about Adobe’s Flex framework and what it offers for building Rich Internet Applications. You’ll find us in the community lending ourselvesREAD MORE