following the previous post, we have completed installations of our favourite IDEs, so now time to do some work. What we will be doing here is create a simple vector based rounded rectangle in Adobe Flash and Microsoft WPF , and compare the file sizes. (more…)
This seems to be a very sensitive topic over the net these days. So instead of trying to tease dot net programmers ( as i have once liked dot net myself 🙂 ) or triumph flash/flex developers, i will just keep the facts in front of you and let you decide on which is what. First we get started by getting our development environments up and ready (more…)
Well.. last night when i was browsing through youtube , i came across what i term “pure google AdSense” in flash. It seems google is coming out with a new mode of advertising for flash only content. youtube’s video player is showing “google ads” as we know it in its html version. Though am not sure if this is to be public soon, but i can be rest assured that if i see it with google they might as well be planning it. This could be a blast for the entire internet as flash templates can now carry the weights of AdSense earnings too. So designers may as well be busy with building the right kind of layout to support this rather than just the i-candy. Strangely though i dont seem to see this in every youtube video. May be its still alpha or somethig. 🙂 Who knows..
I have always found it very difficult to understand and build java applications. Hence i always used to run away from the sound of it. But believe it or not now i find, a person who has worked well with flash/flex will find java to be very understandable. You can say flash added a expression to java over the few years. So anyway to quench my thirst i decided to work on a java GUI application this week. And here it is – “SwfMetaDataInjector”. Flash has supported metadata even before Google / Yahoo started indexing swfs wit their special algorithms. This meta data is stored as a markup, in RDF (Resource Description Framework) format. To know more about this you can read a very intuitive article by Robert Reinhardt
SwfMetaDataInjector lets you write back meta information into swf files even without their fla sources. currently it supports swfs published for flash player 8 and below. i hope to do better with it over time. The application will require you to have the latest java runtime. I this works out forthcoming versions will have batch processing capabilities and better UI. Currently this application is at version 0.01 .
You can download the application here
