Re: [Flashcoders] Adobe Open Screen!
All well said. One other nugget to add to this conversation: Adobe is not open sourcing these proprietary formats, but rather removing certain licensing restrictions and opening the format itself to certain selected partners for the improvement and advancement of the platforms. For more on this topic: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/developers/ Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Glen Pike wrote: I am not sure I agree entirely with you here. Whilst I believe that Open Source software has so much to offer, I cannot believe that an Open Source version of the Flash IDE would provide such a rich feature set AND work as well as the IDE without a significant investment in time and effort. If you think about the time and effort invested into the IDE itself to get where it is today, how many open source projects with IDE's have that sort of longevity or investment? Eclipse, the various flavours of OS and Open Office spring to mind, but I think one of the driving points behind this factor is the demand for these tools. Even with it's popularity, I don't think Flash has the same level of demand. I think you are speaking from a programmers viewpoint. The Flash IDE is not just for programmers and has primarily evolved from a visual tool. Whilst some of the programming features may not be upto scratch with other systems out there, look at the way the actionscript panel works - it has always been aimed at getting stuff working and making it easier for non-programmers to achieve some of their ideas. As ActionScript has got stricter, the ActionScript panel has possibly not kept up with this. But, Adobe recognised this and came up with Flex Builder, which is aimed at developers. On a tangent, I personally feel that Flex Builder takes a lot of ideas from Dreamweaver, but because of Eclipse, has a better underpinning of tools for developers. However, it is not possible to satisfy everyone, especially hard core developers, animators, etc. who often pick big holes in the IDE, (and other tools), because the IDE works for the majority. Already there are alternatives that offer what people are looking for. Look at Flash Develop for the PC - I know that this is not Cross Platform, but there are tools for Mac users Linux people that do similar stuff. And there are other tools which enable people to produce SWF's that can be used in projects too - Moho is an animation tool that has had IK for a while and exports to SWF, I guess Adobe realised that some of the animation stuff needed work, because we are getting IK in the next version... What I do think is with this opening up of source / formats is that there will be more opportunity for developing specialist tools which cover some of the IDE's functionality, but I can't see a Flash IDE killer coming, although it would be nice to see some good quality Linux flavoured tools - personally I am not in a hurry to get rid of my Flash IDE, but I am not in a hurry to use Vista, so would welcome the chance to switch to Linux - not dissing Mac's, but pricing is an issue for me here. Anyway, a lot of what I have said is only an opinion, so I may be totally off base, but my point is that the IDE may have it's faults, but it's still probably the best tool out there for combining animation, graphics, video and stuff, but like you I also prefer to use other tools to write code unless I am spiking stuff that requires both graphics and code. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] ot : Flex RIA running on multiple servers
You could also use Adobe ColdFusion, which has native AMF support built-in, as well as a gateway for interacting with Flex apps. Then you have the power of a J2EE app server, the agility of RAD development with ColdFusion and Flex, plus the scalability of ColdFusion, with it's clustering support, etc. Yes, the server license costs, but when you factor in the support, the community information (which is extreme), and the time savings offered by programming in CFML over Java (or something else), plus the bonus of the native communication channels that Adobe has built into the two products, it really is a major win-win scenario. Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Jon Bradley wrote: On Mar 26, 2008, at 8:34 PM, artur wrote: the CMS webservice i want to build will be done in FLEX / AMF / MySQL. and i want to make sure that it can scale and be redundant. Ok but that doesn't have anything to do with Flex. Flex is just a different application to build an SWF file. It is only the front-end solution. Flex SWF == Flash SWF, plus a whole bunch of code for handling the UI. The Flex SDK is like using a framework (vegas, arp, etc.) for Flash, but on crack. If you're talking about your server solution scaling and being redundant, you need to be way more concerned with other things. You'll most likely need some type of J2EE server. Your best bet is to find a content management system that utilizes JSR-170 (Java Content Repository) and can use MySQL or PostgresSQL (or even oracle) for serious scalability and capability to handle clustering, etc. Check Alfresco.com as a nice, forward looking solution for that (it's open source and free, if you don't need support). You'll still need to write the API on the server with Java to allow the AMF library (GraniteDS or BlazeDS) to speak with the CMS services.Drupal or DSpace might be additional options but I don't know how they scalability and redundancy. There is also an open source project that wasn't started too long ago: Igenko The goal of this project is to act as a JSR-170 (with Apache Jackrabbit) with data services (GraniteDS at the moment). the link is: code.google.com/p/igenko Either way, your issue is server-side, not Flex/Flash. - jon ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] As3 Reccomended Book
Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns ActionScript 3 Bible The Essential Guide to Flex 2 with ActionScript 3.0 ActionScript 3.0 Essential Training Learning ActionScript 3.0: The Non-Programmer's Guide to ActionScript 3 Amazon is your friend;) (not all titles currently available, check website for listing information) Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Omar Fouad wrote: ok thanks i'll do it but any other recommendations??? On 3/26/07, Merrill, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS3 Cookbook is really great - I just picked it up last week and feel like I can write AS3 scripts without too much transition issues. I just recommend you buy it instead of download it from someone else. :) Jason Merrill Bank of America GTO Learning Leadership Development eTools Multimedia Team ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
