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Developing Scalable Mobile Video Chat Applications

I’m making the assets and workbook from my lab at Adobe MAX available for download. The attached ZIP contains the following: L2709_Presentation.ppt L2709_Workbook.pdf FlashP2PLib.fxpl MAX2011MobileVideoChat.fxp EyeChat.fxp EyeChatDesktop.fxp The last two projects are completed versions that you can use for testing or to skip ahead. I plan to follow up with posts related to the P2P …

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Running Android on an iPhone 3G

Ran across this video from the iDroid team @ linuxoniphone.blogspot.com that demonstrates an iPhone 3G dual-booting iOS and Android. The demo covers several typical usage scenarios like web browsing, music playback, SMS and making phone calls. Looks stable enough for me to turn my 3Gs into a pimped out iOS/Android test device in a couple …

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Apple vs. Adobe – Hero’s Perspective

After reading Steve Job’s dismissive stance on Adobe’s Flash technology, I felt compelled to add my two cents on the subject by penning my own letter to Steve. Dear Steve, After reviewing your recent comments regarding Flash and the recent amendments to the Apple Developer TOS, I decided to share with you my response to …

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Simpl UML Modeler

Simpl is a tool to quickly build UML diagrams that depict the complex relationships between various entities involved in a system or systems. It currently includes support for ActionScript 3, PHP and Java class and relationship modeling, as well as SQL table schemas. View some of the quickstart screencasts to get started or the online …

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Using a Custom AdvancedDataGridHeaderRenderer to Display a Custom Image

You decide to use an AdvancedDataGrid to display your data and for one of the columns you would prefer to use an icon instead of a text label to indicate the kind of data this column represents. First step is building the renderer. You can use either MXML or ActionScript but for this example we’ll …

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