Adobe Releases a Lot
From Keith Peters…
In the last week: Digital Editions, Flex Builder 2 for Mac, Soundbooth, Flex Scheduling Framework, Flash Lite 2.1 Authoring Update.
That’s quite a week for any company. And so much more in the works…
Player 9 Updates (including Linux)
Adobe has released a beta of Player 9 for Linux. Info here.
I don’t use Linux – but, I think it’s important for adoption – especially w/ the free Flex compiler.
Performance-wise, it appears the Linux version is 20% faster than Win, except for font rendering – which is quite slow.
There are also updates to player for Mac and Windows as well. So, current official release is 9,0,16,0 – and new beta is 9,0,21,75.
I have no idea what has changed in the latest players (but I installed Mozilla and it seems to work fine) and haven’t done any benchmarking.
New Yorker Article
Interesting article on using artificial neural networks (and some visualization – although no pictures) to predict the monetary success of songs and movies.
Data Widgets
Sometimes I need to url-encode some text for a static xml file. And sometimes I need to know the millisecond value of a date (converting millisecond values to dates is the fastest way to create date objects from XML in Flash. Get millisecond values in Flash by using millisecondValue=new Date().getTime()). And sometimes I make widgets to do this for me and then forget about them.
Flash Developer Job at Visual i|o
Visual i|o (where I work) is hiring. If you’re interested in data visualization and love to program in Flash, this is the job for you. We are located in Somerville, MA. The work environment is relaxed. And we make cool stuff.
Job description here.