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Study of Flash Media Server

Release Date: 2009-05
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  • Free Issue to download 05/2009

  • Putting “Brains” into Flash Apps

    Add Unique Interactive Decision-Making Logic to Your Flash Applications


  • News Digital Media Toyota Tarago Campaign Driving a Difference

    News Digital Media leveraged the GLU Platform to power Toyota’s Driving a Difference campaign, with User Generated Content Moderation, Content Delivery, and Flash components.


  • Working with MySQL Database from Flash Media Server Server-Side ActionScript

    When working with Flash Media Server sometimes it is necessary to negotiate with a server side database. There is no API inside Flash Media Server to work directly with databases such as mySQL. That’s why we will use XML class for this purpose and learn how to handle PHP calls and replies inside Server Side ActionScript asynchronously.


  • Adobe Flash Media Server 3.5

    The web is constantly evolving. With so many people online and with access to broadband connections the world over, Flash developers are starting to realize just how the Flash platform can shape our future. The question is whether Adobe has empowered developers to help make this happen.


  • Streaming to Flash and iPhone with Wowza Media Server 2 Advanced

    The Flash payer is undoubtedly the video king of the desktop. But in the mobile space that title belongs to the iPhone.


  • Wowza Media Server

    If you’ve ever walked into a clothing store and asked for a pair of pants you’re going to be asked a series of questions regarding the type of pants you are looking for.


  • Options When Planning a Video Application With FMS

    It sometimes happens that you are the person in charge of designing and technically deploying the architecture of a video application with FMS or similar servers working with the RTMP protocol. Your client may not be sure how much the solution will cost, and will ask for your consulting skills in order to decide the project direction.


  • A Journey into Adobe Flex Charting Components Part1

    Data visualization not only facilitates prompt interpretation of data, it also delivers information in an eye catching and captivating form. Visualization also empowers the viewer to effortlessly comprehend and interact with the information by displaying data with diverse perspectives and techniques.


  • Flex and ColdFusion Services

    If you were asked to create a cutting edge website that would be feature rich and easy to use, what technology would you use to create it? If you said Flex, then you are off to a good start.


  • Flex Remoting with AMFPHP – in depth

    In this article I hope to show you how easy and efficient coding dynamic & intelligent applications can be using Adobe Flex 3 and AMFPHP.


  • Word of the Day Application Using Yahoo Pipes and flickr

    In this article you will learn how to create a word of the day application that will load a flickr photo based on that day’s word. The word of the day will be retrieved from Dictionary.com and will be processed by Yahoo Pipes to create a clean feed, which will be loaded from Flash.


  • Multiple File Upload Using AMFPHP

    In this article we will learn how to make use of AMFPHP, to create an upload web service and how to integrate it into a flex application.


  • Personal TV: A Simple Personal Television Broadcasting and Television Network

    Have you ever wanted your own television station? With Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5, you can do that. You can broadcast live feed and at the same time give your audience the option of selecting a recorded video. So the viewer can watch a live show of you (your dog, cat, or gerbil) or choose something recorded. From your room, you can reach a worldwide audience!


  • Unconditional Patterns—The State and Strategy Design Patterns: Part I

    Writing programs with conditional statements is a fundamental part of development. However, conditionals can get in the way when you want to add or change elements in your program. Here are two design patterns that don’t use conditional statements at all but still handle everything that conditionals typically do.


  • PureMVC for haXe

    Within the modern world of Internet applications development, speed and ease of production are key. haXe already provides a solid platform with which to promote code reuse across development tiers, while strong architectural understanding and knowledge of patterns are still required see this through. By using the PureMVC framework, developers can now ensure that producing reusable code within a short timeframe is both easy and enjoyable.


  • Interview with Charlie Good

    We sat down recently with Charlie Good, CTO and co-founder of Wowza Media Systems, to talk about his industry background, architectural philosophy and the Wowza Media Server, a highly successful interactive Flash media server software that he created. Charlie also talks about how his company is expanding the Wowza Media Server platform beyond Flash by adding streaming to iPhone, Silverlight, QuickTime and IPTV set-tops.


  • About Influxis. Interview with Wes Daggett, Influxis Sales Manager

    As Flash developers, we see the Influxis green ‘X’ logo almost everywhere. It is nearly ubiquitous in the Flash developer world – see the bright green ‘X’ on many Flash related blogs, see it at conferences where they sponsor industry parties, see it advertised on social media news sites sporting glossy black and shiny chrome servers highlighted by that glowing ‘X’, and even find it on the cover of our own FFDMAG. But what do they do? Who are the people behind Influxis? And what is their vision for the future? We decided to contact Influxis and do an interview with them to bring you some insight into this fast growing company, and what they offer to the Flash developer market. We were also given the exclusive interview opportunity with a couple of their top developers about the cutting edge applications they are working on.


  • About Influxis. Interview with Joe “Bear” Lopez, Developer of VStation 2.0 Beta

    Joe is the Lead Senior Developer and VP of Flash Development at Influxis, and works tirelessly day and night on new ways of manipulating Flash code. Being mostly self taught, he continues to combine various code languages into his application creations, and has been responsible for bringing many new apps to life at Influxis including the various incarnations of the TVStation, PresenterChat, VideoBlogger, and several of the chat applications. Although his passion is code, his competitive nature involves him in tennis, bowling, darts, and an almost insatiable love of video games and a coffee addiction.


  • About Influxis. Interview with Sean “SeanTron” McCracken, Developer of Massiva3D

    Sean “Seantron” McCracken is currently Head of Research & Development at Influxis where he invents new interactive applications and explores the capabilities of all the latest technologies surrounding FMS. Recently, he has been focusing on creating new 3D applications for FMS using Papervision3D, Away 3D, and other new technologies. Prior to coding, he was an Audio Engineer at Warner Music Group. Understanding the data sequencing that music and code share, he easily transitioned into the world of coding. Seantron is an Official Contributor to the Away3d team. He’s also a libra that enjoys long walks by the sea, hanging out with his family, the number 31, pizza, Clifford Pickover, Haruki Murakami, and mastering the space time continuum.


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