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MXNA is dead, long live AXNA

( Development and News )

Well after what appeared to be a lifetime, MXNA is finally back. Or is it…
It now has a shiny new name to go with it’s shiny new rebuild: Adobe Feeds (http://feeds.adobe.com). Heading to http://weblogs.macromedia.com will redirect you to the new URL so now worries about having to update your bookmarks just yet.
I, like most have […]

Adobe opens up SWf, FLV and more

( Development and News )

Adobe upped the ante again this morning by announcing the Open Screen Project.

The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and […]

It’s a kinda Magic (XML)

Following on from my tongue-in-cheek post a few months back about MXML standing for Magic Extensible Markup Language (according to Wikipedia anyway). It appears that some people are actually putting it in there presentations and service offerings.
I found this in a PDF presentation

RIA Technologies
Browser Launched

Adobe Flash/Flex
Flash is the runtime environment
Flex is a RIA framework
Actionscript and […]

onAir European Tour London - Streaming

So today is the London leg of the onAir tour. I thought this would be a great opportunity to test out qik too. So over the course of the day I will be streaming directly from the event (battery life on my N95 permitting).
For those who want to have a look you can find my […]

Flex Builder workspace layout

( Development and Flex )

Depending on your own personal preferences you will probably have Flex Builder (eclipse) projects set up in a particular manner. Some prefer to have all of their projects in one workspace and open and close them as they need them. Others prefer to adopt a similar set up but use the working set filters to […]

Flex Builder 3 project ‘libs’ folder

( Development and Flex )

It seems that a lot of people are still unsure what the libs folder is actually for within a Flex Builder 3 project. Well if you’re not sure, here is its use - It for importing SWC files in to.
I know a lot of developers still use the library path to import SWC’s so that […]

Nokia N95 Firmware update = Flash Lite 3.0

I don’t do a huge amount of Flash Lite work. However when my good friend Dave Williamson pinged me on MSN yesterday and informed me that he had just flashed his Nokia N95 to the latest firmware, which resulted in the Flash Lite player getting updated to version 3.0; I thought to myself that perhaps […]

Six Screens = New Macbook Pro

I had a funny conversation with my good friend Sean regarding the on-going issues he has had with his first generation Macbook Pro. It appears his particular model doesn’t like screens. In actual fact, if memory serves me correctly, the initial problems were resolved by Apple replacing everything except the metal lid on his MBP […]

Apple’s Latest Patch Appears To Break SSH

UPDATE: It appears this is solely related to the “Instant Hijack” plugin found in Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack application. To resolve it you need to remove the Instant Hijack plugin. if you want to test to see if this is the case prior to uninstalling the plugin use:
sudo /usr/local/hermes/bin/hermesctl unload

UPDATE 2: Rogue Amoeba have released […]

Flash Media Rights Management Server - Adobe does DRM?

Adobe announce that they have a new addition to the Flash Media Server family. Content owners can use FMRMS to encrypt FLV and F4V audio / video files that are downloaded and played locally — and then sets policies for their access.
This means that media broadcasters could potentially set the access requirements and expiration flags […]