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Archive for April, 2005

ColdFusion, event gateways and RTMP:: FlashComm server for ColdFusion

( Remoting and Misc. and FlashComm )

Many Remoting developpers would appreciate being able to send all of their remoting calls through RTMP, the protocol used by FlashComm server. The advantage would be obvious: virtually no lag when sending calls to and from Remoting, because the connection is already made. Now the remarkable thing about Remoting and FlashComm is that at a […]

Don’t forget your cross-domain policy files

( News )

You’re probably already aware that you can’t load xml from another domain when your movie is viewed in Flash player 6 and above. For Flash player 7, www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com count as different domains. Therefore if you’ve hardcoded your domain in your actionscript and someone accesses your site from yourdomain.com instead of www.yourdomain.com, your visitor […]

Consuming the MXNA web service using AMFPHP

Tmeister shows how to consume the MXNA web service using Flash and the AMFPHP 1.0 beta. He promises (from what I understood from Google translate) to offer a tutorial on the subject in the following weeks. The post is here, in Spanish, and in English via Google Translate.

Using JSFL to generate alternate XHTML

( JSFL )

In order to get better search engine rankings, I regularly duplicate the text in my Flash content, place it in a semantically correct XHTML structure, and use it as alternate content on the corporate site. Now Flash can drop the raw text in HTML comments but I hate it as it has no structure, and […]

[OT] New look for the blog

( News )

I had previously been running a modified version of the Kubrick theme for WordPress and it was superb but the WordPress guys decided to use it as the new default theme theme in 1.5! It’s popping up all over the place these days and I quickly became very, very sick of it, so I switched […]