I just had a talk with a reliable source (a high-placed developer at IBM) concerning a failed partnership between Macromedia and IBM, about 18 months ago, before the Adobe/Macromedia merger:
“IBM and Macromedia were in discussions to open-source the Flash player. It was down to signing the contracts when MM pulled out of the […]
With amfphp 1.2, it’s possible to test your Remoting services directly through your web browser using the service browser. Fluorine, openAMF and other Remoting users rejoice, however, as it is in fact possible to use the same service browser to test any Remoting gateway. Here’s how you can do it:
Create an amfphp service with a […]
I’ve been testing amfphp with PHP4 and PHP5 lately (PHP5 supports try..catch so the error handling is different), and got tired of switching between both manually, so I whipped up a little python script to toggle php versions:
import shutil;
f = file(”C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\conf\httpd.conf”) content = f.read() php4 = False if content.find(”#LoadModule php4″) != -1: php4 […]
cinqetdemi.remoting.RemotingService is a tiny layer designed to run on top of Remoting that wraps mx.remoting.Service and adds quite a few useful features. RemotingService works well with amfphp but can work with any other Remoting implementation, ColdFusion, Fluorine, OpenAMF, etc.
Notable features:
Timeout and retry on failure. If a packet gets lost, or there’s a temporary hickup, oftentimes the […]
This may be old news, but if you haven’t seen it yet, Allessandro’s image gallery is a gorgeous application featuring all kinds of neat effects: a resizable interface, photo transitions, panaroma view with motion blur, etc. The source is available here as well. Powered by amfphp.