Re: [Flashcoders] Backend compiled Java or scripted PHP?
Answering about where you draw the line: usually nowhere. The technology you'll use is decided upon your own skills/experience/existing assets and setup you have on the server. Key is interoperability. You can actually have a mixed PHP/Java solutions, and write C++ extensions for PHP. If it works, and the performance/features are sufficient for your task at hand, then it works, there are no other conditions and no hidden obstacles. All of these technologies scale with the proper architecture in place. - the dividing line seems to be scale. (How big is the project, how much traffic will it generate, how computationally expensive and or complex). There are many situations that don't affect the scalability or maintainability of a site, scripting is too useful a tool not to have available. That being said, while more complex things can and are built with PHP, there's a point at which the advantages of Java overcome it's disadvantages (taming tomcat, longer development times, etc...). The big question is where do you draw the line? Weldon ___ 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] Adobe Interface.. (was: Flash CS3 over 400 MB! and 25 minutes to install!)
Please also have a meeting on the entire Adobe Interface concept. Maybe you're aware of those things internally, but I want to let you know that they're quite visible on the outside too: the Flash Authoring's implementation of Adobe's interface is patched in on top of the old GUI (and Flash CS3 specifically has some new GUI issues introduced in the process because of that). If Adobe believes skinning and sharing the interface is top priority for their application suite, at least I'd suggest that you share it right (share the code and the controls themselves, don't just share specs, images and have everyone implement their own version). Since that'd be even more work than patching it in on the old GUI, I personally preferred the approach DW/FW took for this release, which is: keep their current interface (for now at least). How does Adobe plan to tackle this one in the future? Regards, Stan Vassilev That said, I'm in a meeting right now where we're talking about improving the installation experience for the next generation... the installation *is* pretty big right now, and we're looking for ways to provide similar capabilities at lower cost in the future. jd ___ 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] Challenge: open YouTube FLV in your own SWF
I've been desparately trying to figure out a way to do so, you can't do it since YouTube's crossdomain XML features *.google.com and *.youtube.com. I want to experiment with a "mashup" which requires direct access to the FLV. So I started looking at the various Google services, in the hope one of them serves from a *.google.com domain. Google Pages? Maybe pages.google.com ? Nope, googlepages.com Google Widgets? Maybe widgets.google.com? Nope, gmodules.com Google Code Projects? googlecode.com... There's nothing on YouTube about uploading direct files I found, so my little experiment is doomed to fail.. unless I'm missing something? Does anyone of you know a service/idea/trick/API to open a streaming FLV somehow from YouTube? The only thing I could think of is, of course, screen scraping the FLV url (keepvid.com style) and downloading it to my server to play. But that's not really what I wanted... Regards, Stan Vassilev ___ 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
