Yahoo! India has launched a job-search website. You can search jobs in India as well as international locations. It looks quite neat, clean and usable site. It allows you to see jobs available in different categories(finance, information-technology etc) as well as locations (cities, countries etc).
Link: http://web.careers.in.yahoo.com/index.html
Things like AJAX, Web 2.0 etc get so much hyped? Aren't these better way of solving some existing issues. The way different sorting algorithms, network algorithms did. They way GUI(graphical user interface) replaced CLI(command line interface) years ago. The way bandwidth increase/Internet connectivity solved some existing problems (slow videos, less rich websites, slow access to information) etc..
Is it because now we have better Internet, information spreads faster than ever? I think, It's good but sometimes it's not so good.
Just some thoughts, an era of information overloading has started. Most of time, we are just reading same information over and over without much value added, just locations of content keep changing from one blog(site) to another.
If you are AJAX, Javascript or Web Developer, you should look at the posts of Philip. Quite interesting stuff.
Jonathan Boutelle and some other folks(Amit, Gaurav, Manik) are organising a BarCamp in Delhi, venue is Adobe office, Noida. The scheduled date for this event is March 4th, 2006.
The topic would be "Next generation internet: Web 2.0, mobile applications, and other cool stuff".
Check out Jon's blog to know more about this event and about BarCamp.
If you are around Delhi, you should try to attend it. Unfortunately, I would not be able to attend, wish I could.
Brad Neuberg talks about speeding up ExternalInterface in Flash Player 8. Quite interesting post.
Link: How to Speed Up Flash 8's ExternalInterface
You can use VideoDisplay with live streams from Flash Communication/Media Server using following code.
<![CDATA[
import NetConnectionClient;
private var nc:NetConnection;
private var camera:Camera;
private var microphone:Microphone;
private var ns:NetStream;
private function initApp():void
{
camera = Camera.getCamera();
microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone();
}
private function publish():void
{
var streamName:String = "live_stream";
nc = new NetConnection();
//object where callbacks are defined.
nc.client = new NetConnectionClient();
nc.connect("rtmp://localhost/flex_live_streaming");
ns = new NetStream(nc);
ns.attachCamera(camera);
ns.attachAudio(microphone);
ns.publish(streamName);
//subscribe to live stream, by assigning the RTMP url to VideoDisplay.
videoDisplay.url = "rtmp://localhost/flex_live_streaming/" + streamName;
}
]]>
//NetConnectionClient.as
package
{
public class NetConnectionClient
{
public function NetConnectionClient()
{
}
public function onBWDone(... rest):void
{
}
public function onBWCheck(... rest):uint
{
//have to return something, so returning anything :)
return 0;
}
}
}
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If you notice the highlighted NetConnectionClient class in mxml code. Why do we need it?
We need it because main.asc invokes some functions(onBWCheck, onBWDone etc) on NetConnection.client while doing bandwidth-detection. If your NetConnection instance is missing these callback functions, you won't be able to publish/subscribe streams. It works fine with VideoDisplay because VideoDisplay seems to be having those functions defined.
If you are using Macromedia Flash Player's NetConnection and VideoDisplay together in your Flex application, you need to have those callback functions defined on NetConnection's instance, as shown above.
Note: This is workaround for current version(Beta 1) of VideoDisplay. Adobe Flex framework is still under development, so things might change later.
Hopefully we don't need any workaround. I wish, if there is a class in Flex framework which encapsulates NetConnection and all these callback so we can use it instead of using NetConnection.
Yahoo! has released it's User Interface library and Design Pattern library under an Open-Source license(BSD). I believe, Yahoo! has been using these internally but now they made it public.
I have had a chance to look at UI library which consists of utility classes and widgets(ui controls). Things like Drag-Drop, Custom Event, AJAX handling etc are so cool to use; few lines of code and you are done. Similarly, widgets like Tree, Slider, Calendar are also very easy to use...
If you are into eLearning domain, you would love this cross-browser library to make eLearning interaction. Which require drag-drop, animation etc.
If you are into RIA development and looking for AJAX as an option, you should look at the Connection Manager along with other classes.
Update: You can also look at Y! UI Blog.
I posted about my last day in Adobe but didn't mention where I would be joining. So just wanted to let everyone know that I have joined Yahoo! Bangalore as Web Developer.
I hope, I would learn lots of things in Yahoo! and would do some cool projects. I would post more when I learn or do something new.
I am bit late to blog about the announcement that Adobe has made about free Adobe Flex framework SDK and FES . But I wanted to express what I feel about this announcement.
I think, this is another great move by Adobe after labs announcement.
I think, there would be some limitations in free FES, you can read details on Mark Anders' blog.
Today is my last day in Adobe. It has been a wonderful time working here among great people. I have learnt so much about product development, quality assurance and many more things.
I met people and worked with them, whom I always wanted to see, talk to. People, who have been a source of inspiration for me. I worked in a company which made Macromedia Flash Player and ActionScript, my love :)
It's mixed feeling today, I am sad and emotional because I would miss a great company with great culture, people/friends in Macromedia and many other things which I would probably realize after sometime. But at the same time I am excited about future.
I would like to thank everyone inside Adobe(Macromedia) and outside, who have helped me and supported me to do my work well. I hope to keep working with Adobe Flex/Flash/ActionScript in future with same passion and enthusiasm.
I also hope to be on flexcoders and other mailing-lists. I also wish, I blog some interesting and useful stuff more often, I know this has been my wish for a long time but somehow not able to do :(