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March 25, 2009
I'm on The Flex Show
I'm on the latest episode of The Flex Show, where I talk about making changes to the Flex SDK and the Faster Flex 3 SDK.
It was a lot of fun to do the interview with Jeffry Houser and John Wilker, and I'm glad they gave me the opportunity to do this. They've interviewed nearly everyone I read or admire in the Flex world, so make sure to check out the other podcasts if you haven't already.
Thankfully they cut out the part where my phone rings and the other amusing parts. Although I need to respond to one of those missing pieces: yes Juan Sanchez, I do like quesadillas.
Brightcove News: New Release, .NET SDK, and More Blogs
"Watching" video online: Ryan Stewart had a good post about the differences in watching video online. It made me think of a recent experiment to put the Brightcove player in a 3D environment and the other BEML and API uses I've been seeing.
Brightcove 3.2: A new release of Brightcove came out over the weekend, and you can read about all of the module and API changes in the link.
.NET SDK: Adding to the PHP, Python, and JS SDKs for the Brightcove APIs, there's now a .NET version.
Ad inventory: Both streaming media and Jeremy's blog had some thoughts on online video ad inventory.
More Brightcove meetups: I had a great time at the New York meetup (I'm the blurry guy in the lower-left corner). There's more coming up. Actually, now that I read that last post again, I see there's only one meetup that's left, so book your flight to London tonight.
Japan and Comics: Brightcove showed off the many customers in Japan, and Marvel was highlighted on NewTeeVee.
Blogs blogs blogs: Jeremy Allaire wrote about the many Brightcove blogs that can now be found on blog.brightcove.com. The blogs aren't just about Brightcove, and you can check them out for a number of insightful posts on video. There's other Brightcove blogs off of the site, and you can read about Flex and Brightcove from Oscar Cortes, Al Manning, Bob de Wit, and of course me.
March 11, 2009
Flex SDK Hackery
I presented at the Boston Flash Platform User Group (Brightcove office edition) tonight as a last-minute fill-in. I put together the following presentation which gives details on making changes to the Flex SDK. It doesn't have too much information in it, but people at the meeting asked for it to be posted for the links. And it should fit in well with my upcoming interview on The Flex Show.
U2's Flash Site
In honor of U2 playing in Boston tonight, here's some emails between my wife and me today. She's a big U2 fan and just found they're playing again in Boston in September.
Betsy wrote:
This is the stage- this is amazing!
Brian wrote:
They need to work on their programming skills, got a Flash error in the debugging version of the Flash player. :P
TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at Main/initSound()
at Main/init()
at Main/frame5()
Brian wrote:
Well that's cool though, that's some good Flash 3D. I bet they are using Papervision3D, what everyone is using for 3D in Flash.
Betsy wrote:
Could we talk about U2?
