Sti Media: The Source

An excellent article on producing video for Flash

Another great article (that I've finally found some time to look over..) from Jan Ozer about producing video for flash. Holy cow it's long and detailed, go grab a big coffee and settle in for lots of info.

Check it out here for the print version and the original link to the site.

Interesting article about a connect pro and the extras it has over the normal flash player

Here's an article that I finally found some time to get around to reading:

SystemProduct and connect pro article

I liked it in that the author talks about the age old problem that the connect pro plugin is a MUCH cooler version of the flash player and that Adobe is taking advantage of their full control over it to have a one up on their own customers of Flash/Flex that also use the flash player to make money. Whew.. that was a long sentence.

Anyways, good to see that there are those that will take the time to find out what is going on behind the scene and post about. I hope one day us lowly public developers will be able to take advantage of the features like audio enhancement and screen sharing.. those are items that are requested over and over again.. and yet no real response from Adobe. *sigh*...

Some OT: First place in a class in a car show

Just a bit of OT here that I thought I'd brag about, I'm rather proud that my car got first place in it's class in a car show here locally.

We have a local car show for Pontiac that runs every year called the All Pontiac Show and Shine. This is the first year I've put my car in (in any show for that matter..) and I wasn't sure how it would all turn out but it seems quite a few people thought my car rather nice and voted it into the #1 spot for the class. I own a 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT which is pretty much in mint and stock condition other than the leather seats I put in. Here's a quick pic just in case you're not aware of what these things look like:

Neato :) This has a bit more meaning to me than normal because the car was in a minor hit and run a month ago which made me have to replace the entire door! Without the help of a few friends and the encouragement of the car club I belong to, I don't think I would have bothered to get it ready in time to get it into the show. A big huge public thanks to all involved! There is no price you can put on solid friends that come through for the pure reason of making sure things go well. Makes me proud.

On another minor proud note I'm a bit of a gardener and have a large vegetable/fruit plant patch in my yard. This is from a recent harvest!

Those strawberries are 2 bowls of an already large count of 8 now.. I have no idea why the strawberry patch is putting out so many strawberries, but I can assure you that myself and pretty much every one of my friends are enjoying them :) Absolutely delicious and don't even compare to the crap we get from California that are picked far too early and left out to ripen in our local grocery stores.

Little bit of OT there with a couple of my hobbies (it's not all work with FMS around here), thanks for reading.

RTMP Specs availabe on Adobe's site

Very slightly old info but important to post I think just in case. Adobe has gone and finally released the specs to RTMP (not that those that are implementing it now don't already know), but the fact they are making it public and out there is a good thing.

Check out Kevin Towes' blog on the subject and a straight link to Adobe's site.

There's lots of discussion going on in the flashmedia list that I recommend checking out if you have some time. Mainly around the RTMPE, RTMPT, RTMPS and RTMFP protocols. The specs above don't cover any of those.. which doesn't help much does it?

Anyways, good info all around.

A good project management application?

I'm hoping somebody can point me in the direction of a good project management application. I'd like it to work for multiple users, have the option to install a PC and/or MAC client side or a web based module for "on the go". A mobile version would be cool too.. but that might be asking for a bit much. I've done a search on both fullasagoog (it came up with nothing...) and Adobe feeds (it came up with lots of results of nothing to do with project management.. what the hell good is that kind of search???) and didn't find anything. I know I've seen some postings though so I'm going to keep searching around. I'll post my results here when done.

If anybody can steer me in the right direction a bit quicker though, that would be great. Lower the price the better. We have experience with OnTime, but it's quite pricey and I'd like to move away from it.