Tuesday, July 09, 2002

Flash Communication Server party I just got back from the Macromedia Flash Communication Server party. Lots of people showed up to see information and demos of the Flash Communication Server. The sound was messed up, but people seemed to be excited about the demos. We showed the Jeremy Allaire Macromedia MX presentation, authoring Flash Communication Apps with the Flash Communication components (not yet available) (imagine building full fledge text and video chat room in about 2 minutes), and a collaborative whiteboard application. Afterwards, there was a chance to meet and chat with everyone. I talked to Phillip Torrone, Christian Cantrell, Glenn Thomas, Branden Hall, Nigel Pegg, Eric Dolecki (met him for the first time), Natalie Zee, Steve Leone, Erik Natzke, Dave Yang, and Veronique Brossier (first time). Everyone was excited about the possibilities of the new technologies, and i could see them already starting to think up cool things to do with it. 10:56:03 PM    comment []  Google It!

Flash Remoting : Passing responder object with remote function calls. Branden Hall and Christian Cantrell are on the same DC - NYC train that I am. Branden showed me some useful Flash Remoting stuff he figured out. You can pass a responder object for a remote method as the first argument to the method call. This allows you to pass a separate instance of an object when you are calling the same remote method multiple times. The only caveat is that the responder function must have an onResult method. It will not work if your use functionName_Result. Here is an example: var result = new Object(); result.onResult = function(data) { trace("data received"); } //netservices code snipped service.functionName(result, "foo"); Pretty cool stuff. 3:02:30 PM    comment []  Google It!

I'm off to FlashForward NYC I am off for NYC and FlashForward. I will be posting FlashForward related information in the FlashForward section. I will be away from email for a couple of hours this afternoon. 10:58:17 AM    comment []  Google It!