Just noticed this, a nice tutorial on reading RSS in Flash is available here at GoldenMean, covering everything from the basics of XML handling to PHP proxying to XPath. Nice.
On the subject of tutorials, I’ve recently had the honour of winning the actionscript.org Massive competition for some of my tutorials on actionscript (they’re linked in […]
Allen Ellison and Jim Cheng of Architekture have created a nice set of tools to diagnose FlashComm video conferencing, available here. These were “were built to so that we could easily create reproducible test cases in a simplified video conferencing test environment without the additional complexity and overhead of proprietary or application-specific code.” The display is optimized […]
Met with a client who was worried about large-scale performance of AMFPHP. I showed him the idflux site, which I know is run on the 1.0 beta, and receives quite a lot of hits, and he was quite impressed. I also know that May 1st reboot is run on AMFPHP. Any site getting 10,000 hits […]
Maybe the reason why few people are making RIAs is they think they will have to program everything from scratch. What if you want to use a Flash interface for content management, wikis, bulletin boards, blog software? You have two options right: stick with HTML or rebuild everything for Flash. Everyone is going to pick […]
Dave Shea of Mezzoblue reports on the very visible clear-cutting of forests near Vancouver through Google Maps’ new satellite photo features. Those from Quebec will want to take look in Abitibi, near Amos for an equally frightening example on what’s going on up north right here in Quebec. Here is another example near Lebel-sur-Quévillon, also […]