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I'm sure you've all heard... the new flash player beta supports H.264 video on playback. This means aac audio and mp4 for video stuff.. oh and of course you could play mov as well. Way cool. And for all of you wanting to know.... no real time encoding from the flash player in mp4... we still have the beloved spark encoder with nellymoser. But hey.. we're stepping in the right direction!

Here is a blog post from the horses mouth that explains a ton.

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UPDATE: For those interested in setting up Flex 3 SDK and Eclipse without ant, I have posted a new article outlining this process. Honestly I prefer the new way without ant, but because you can do either one choice is king. Here is the new article.

I just got around posting this.. but Silverlight.. the supposed flash killer now is running on Linux. Well.. it's running through mono on Linux so Microsoft didn't do any diligence in getting it there. Novell stepped up and got things running. Kindof cool.

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Just wanted to let everyone know that the product I am the developer on just got a huge facelift. The site is http://www.livehuddle.com . Now the web site hasn't gotten quite the face lift it needs but the tool it self looks much improved.

We have also added event tagging for sorting and organizing of events.... quite the nice feature.. and much needed as well.

This is very good news! Flex builder and flex data services are not being open sourced at this time... bummer. :)

"Adobe announced strategic plans to move the development of Flex to an open source model."

"This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also includes the Java source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, the ActionScript debugger and the core ActionScript libraries from the SDK."

I just got done reading a great, but biased.. :), review of Microsoft Silverlight. I laughed a bit and think he has some very valid points.. should be an interesting run.

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If you haven't heard yet Adobe has been working on and now as officially released news around a new Media Player. This is built on Apollo which is a great demonstration of building an enterprise application on Apollo.

I am excited about the potential and power of Apollo. This media player will bring to the table some drm for flash video. Good or bad?.. you decide. It'll be interesting see where this goes.

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Today is the day that has been long awaited by programmers and developers alike.. as well as "Provelopers".

Interestingly enough Go Live is not in any of the bundles. But that is not a sad thing... this is a joyous occasion. I'm excited about all the integration between the products, however adobe did not fail in passing along it's price tag on the new packages.

Anyway... this will open the doors to yet another internet revolution.

Check out all the details here.

Adobe's site

Adobe just posted another article I wrote... ok I actually co-authored this one. Very informative. The article is entiteled "Performance-tuning Flash Media Server 2 for live webcasts using Linux". It's a great read even for those who are just tuning apache without the Flash media server.

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It all started last week when the company I work for hired a new developer. This new developer inherited an old dell with winXP on it. The developer who gave up this machine received in return a brand new, shiny Windows Vista machine.

As curiosity would have it we all crowded around his machine to see first hand the latest achievement of Microsoft fully hoping to be blown away. After all, Microsoft does have a lot to answer for with all the 'pomp and circumstance' around Vista.