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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]

New tutorial from Macromedia: Using the Google web service in Macromedia Flash MX. A nice tutorial of how you can implement Google search with Flash MX and ColdFusion MX. There are several things that bug me though. First, why is it that Macromedia is only able to provide the tutorial as a PDF file? I can’t see any good reason why the tutorial couldn’t have been delivered online by HTML with the PDF download optional. And, why is it that the files are distributed as “windows source files”, I get

Den Ivanov of Shockteam.com has released a Video Greetings service based on Flash MX and Flash Communication Server. I am sure we will see a lot more of these kind of services popping up. Check out the cool card I got from Jensa of Flashmagazine.com today, it shows how you end up looking when working from home. (Lets not talk about me looking even worse, at the office) I hope Macromedia has made sure to make good agreements for kickbacks from web-cam producers, because I can see how the easier

Greg Burch has a great tip when developing Flash Remoting apps: Debug Flash Remoting outside the IDE (yet in it at the same time) I build smaller remoting components that hook into a very large system. And it is nearly impossible to get that whole system running and kept up to date to test my small pieces. So I noticed that as long as I leave NetDebug.as included in my little pieces that if I have the IDE open and the NetConnection Debugger panel open it will catch Flash remoting