July 2002

More information and examples of using Flash MX together with web services, this time from Jeffrey Hill of Flash-db.com. He has put together quite a few examples of code doing it with PHP and Flash MX. To quote him: Here’s my implementation (completed before the MM went up). Floogle MX The Download and Documentation The comparison between CF and PHP (use’s MM’s client for both CF and PHP) Some other web Service’s I’ve put up for download in the past couple weeks/months: Currency Conversion Language Translator By looking over the

I really like the Flash presentations Macromedia has made of its own history. Macromedia: The Story. Its even better than the Executive presentation (which is great too) IMHO. [Via Eric Dolecki]

FlashGuru has written a short tutorial about how to Access ID3 Tags in external mp3’s there is a good discussion following the tutorial. To me it seems like reading the ID3 tags with server scripts is probably a better way to go when building MP3 players with Flash and accessing external mp3’s.

Mike Chambers has an interesting posting with links to articles and discussions going on about the Flash Communication Server and bandwidth discussion. Mike has some good points and does a good job balancing the whole discussion. The problem is that this is something that the end product (connected flash movies) is something that can be done with XML today (and thus is not as sexy). However, it is much, much easier using the Flash Communication Server (no need to parse XML, send and receive ActionScript data types, etc…), as well

Nice to see Mario working on the Amazon Search, now is so feature full that its actually a better browser of Amazon then what you find at Amazon.com IMHO.

Robin Debreuil has started an interesting discussion of the Flash Comm Server and Bandwidth Costs. Its about the not so cool part of adding cool new broadband services to a web site. (Bandwidth cost). [Via John Dowdell]