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If you are interested in the MASAPI project, you can see the presentation slides made by Cédric Tabin about it on the website of AUGG (Adobe User Group Geneva). |
Ahmet
Tonight at AUGG Cédric Tabin presented us his “massloading API”, (MASAPI project) for AS3.
The target of the Masapi is to provide a complete framework dedicated to the management of the massive loading into a flash/flex application. It is designed to be as easy as possible to use but also to be as flexible as possible.
There are the main features that the framework supports :
- Multi files download (Global\Sequential MassLoader)
- Overall progress
- Parallel files management
- Priority of a file
- Cache management
- Supported load managers : URLLoader, Loader, Sound, URLStream
- Pause/Resume the massive loading
- Application file dependencies
The API is composed of 27 classes and 13 interfaces, all done by Cédric!
In two words: manage a large amount of files to be loaded, manage their dependencies in one well done API.
Great work Cédric!
More information about his API on Google Code as the MASAPI Project
Soon the video of his presentation will be uploaded on AUGG
Ahmet
Sep 182007
Adobe Systems, the world’s largest maker of design software, reported quarterly results and targets ahead of Wall Street expectations on strong sales of its updated suite of products.
Net income for the fiscal third quarter ended Aug. 31 rose to $205.2 million, or 34 cents a diluted share, compared with $94.4 million, or 16 cents a diluted share, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue rose to $852 million, from $602 million a year earlier.
“It was a very solid quarter with very strong Creative Suite adoption,” said Brad Reback, an analyst with CIBC World Markets, referring to the design software. “And a very solid outlook.”
Via Times
Ahmet
Sep 152007
At the beginning of this week, I’ve received my first check from Google for using Adsense. Since the start of this year I’ve been using it, to see if it could pay my hosting. I nearly have my hosting completly paid by Adsense, what surprised me is the difference between Adsense and Adwords (that I use for my work). For what I’ve noticed, please tell me if I’m wrong, an Adsense user will have 1/10 of what an Adwords users will pay.
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My experience with Adwords is mostly negative, it asked me a lot of times to define Adwords to optimize the little money we were investing. Here are 5 tips that i find out for a more rational use of Adwords.
- Find our your keywords, synonyms and position (can use my seo position tool)
- Use the keywords tool from Adwords to have multiple keywords with advertiser competition, choose the lower (it will be cheaper)
- Find out website strong on your important keywords and place add on them. Do not just buy keywords, I did and most of the website displaying my adds where spams blog in China.
- Depending on how much global your business is, define the Countries and Territories where your adds will appear.
- Make several campaign, but never forget that adds are for ROI not for popularity, so do all possible to improve your website landing page.
Ahmet
Sep 132007
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Good news from Emmy Huang , Flash 10 is now officially codenamed “ASTRO”. The changes were so impressive with Flash Player 9, I’m wondering what they will do this time to free up our imagination. |
My wish is to be able to load HTML via an AIR application and to display any Flash (or Silverlight why not?) contained in the file.
Ahmet
Sep 132007
This result surprised me, really. I thought that it would be much higher. I understand that it is not a worldwide statistics but app. 1/5 of top 5000 sites using Flash is really not a good sign or is it?
Hard to find information to compare Flash against other technologies, maybe because Flash is quite alone on this market? Silverlight, want to compete with Flash but it represents only 0.08% of the top 5000 website (ok they are too young on the market). We could also think about Javascipt / Ajax to build the same user experience but I couldn’t find any stats about the use of Javascript on top websites.
We could try to analyze this from the user point of view. Adobe claims that 90% of the web users on mature market have Flash Player 9 installed (in June 2007) and 99% got Flash Player 7 installed. That might lead us to think Flash is very commonly used on the web, but cannot inform us about the top website. For Javascript, the penetration is 96% (4% don’t have Javascript in September 2007).
Final conclusion, with a so deep penetration of the Flash Player we can only be happy to develop for the Flash Player ;)
Ahmet
Sep 122007
Finaly it’s over!
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Now the worst part: wainting the results…
Ahmet
