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December 27, 2008
A Faster Flex 3.2 SDK
I've updated the post A Faster Flex 3 SDK with the files for Flex 3.2. If you're using Flex 3 and Flex Builder, I'd suggest checking out these changes for a significant performance boost.
My apologies to those who were patiently waiting for these changes to be ported to Flex 3.2. It's been a little busy here, between the holidays, some interesting work for Brightcove, reviewing a book, and the little fact that I'm getting married in three weeks. Happy Holidays to everyone!
December 21, 2008
Tools for Brightcove Developers
With the recent news about the Brightcove API partners, I wanted to go over some of the tools for those API partners and more importantly, for developers creating websites using Brightcove.
Features
There's four major areas in Brightcove 3 to focus on: the media API, player XML (BEML), the player API, and the ad API. There's a lot more information in the linked documentation than I could mention here, and you should be able to get a good idea there of how you can manipulate players, videos, playlists, etc.
I've been working a lot on the ad APIs, and I'm always happy to answer questions on them (just see the next section). We've doing a lot to make it easier to integrate new ad platforms with Brightcove, which you can see in the ad translator and ad SWF documentation.
Community
Brightcove has been working a lot on the documentation and community on its site lately. You can see this in the development help, which includes links to the new forums and development documentation. There's also still the Yahoo group brightcove-dev.
Recent Changes
We continue to release new updates that include changes that are helpful for developers. On help.brightcove.com, you can get a general overview of the changes in Brightcove 3.1 and Brightcove 3.1.1
Some of the notably recent changes include additional player templates, a player SWC, and new player logging.
Thoughts?
So what do you think is missing above? What developer tools does Brightcove need to work more on?
Java on EC2, the Easy Way
Congrats to Stax Networks for their successful launch and mention on TechCrunch. If you're creating or thinking of creating Java apps on EC2, you should go check this out.
While this is essentially a promotional post of my own doing for a friend and founder of Stax Networks, I can easily relate this back to the usual Brightcove and Flex focus of this blog in two ways. One of the founders of the company is J.J. Allaire, and the service can be very useful for Flex applications with a Java backend.
