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Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer Home About Ryan Contact Presentations Projects Resume Fun with Flash and SAP’s NetWeaver Platform January 27th, 2009 by ryanstewart Mrinal twittered today about a project he’s been working on and it took me on a pretty cool tour of what’s going on with SAP, NetWeaver, and Flash. NetWeaver 7.0 supports something called “Flash Islands“, which are basically SWF files inside of Web Dynpro interfaces, which is the user interface for SAP’s NetWeaver platform. Using ExternalInterface interface, you can pass data from Web Dynpro and a Flex/Flash application. What’s cool is to see the most cutting edge parts of the Flash Platform being used in an enterprise setting like SAP NetWeaver. Mrinal has an example of Ribbit working, letting you make phone calls from NetWeaver, and there is an example of Cocomo collaboration by Mogens Enevoldsen, which shows off building a social network in SAP. 2009 is going to be a gigantic year for real-time data and collaboration. This is something that, arguably, the Flash Platform does better than anyone else, so I think it’s going to be an exciting year for Flex developers as they get to show real world examples of things that most people are just starting to think about. Posted in Flash, Flex having 3 comments ? How Do You Use Fireworks and Where Does it Fit in your Workflow? January 23rd, 2009 by ryanstewart Doug Winnie is looking for feedback on how teams and individuals use Fireworks. I know a bunch of designers in the web and Flex space use Fireworks exclusively for their work and it’s one of my favorite design tools out there. There are some very cool ideas afoot for Fireworks, so if you use it, I’d really encourage you to head over to Doug’s blog and give your feedback. Posted in Adobe having no comments ? The Day Has Come - Adobe Opens up RTMP January 20th, 2009 by ryanstewart I’m really happy to be able to blog that Adobe is opening up the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) spec. As a lot of you probably know, RTMP forms a core part of the Flash Platform ecosystem. It is the backbone protocol for delivering real time data and rich media to the Flash Player. Now it will be available for any developer to implement in their own tools, server technologies, or projects. As the Flash Platform has grown, Adobe as a company has pushed harder and harder to be both more innovative and more open. You see this in everything from open source Flex to open specifications like AMF and XMP and PDF. Part of the reason we can continue to open up is the fact that we are able to build value added services to our customers on top of our open technology. RTMP is no different. The Digital Media group at Adobe has done some great things with RTMP. Over the past couple of years they introduced a variety of secure RTMP measures including an encrypted version of RTMP called RTMPE which enabled content providers to protect their content while allowing it to be consumed by the 98% of computers that have the Flash Player. These types of secure RTMP measures are what makes sites like Hulu possible - because the people that create content feel confident they can protect it while making it freely available. These security measures are examples of technologies that Adobe built on top of RTMP, and they aren’t part of the core spec that we’re opening up. In general, this is even better news for developers. Adobe spent a lot of work creating those and we think we have a great solution to protect people’s content. But there are no rules in how developers should implement things like security or peer-to-peer functionality in the open RTMP spec - we’re leaving it up to developers to decide how they want to implement it. That helps Adobe’s offerings by expanding the entire RTMP ecosystem and fostering healthy competition for the best solution. Any user of the Flash Platform, from developers to the end users, is going to benefit. So today Adobe is expanding the community around RTMP by continuing to be as open as possible and foster both innovation and healthy competition. When you think about everything RTMP provides - the data, the video, the audio - and think about all of the possibilities that now exist for 3rd parties and developers, it’s hard not to get excited. This is going to provide an explosion of innovation for the community around the Flash Platform. Posted in Adobe, Flash Player having 3 comments ? Create a Pixel Bender Filter - Win Awesome Stuff from Nvidia January 19th, 2009 by ryanstewart This is really cool. The folks at Nvidia are running a contest to see who can come up with the best Pixel Bender filter. NVIDIA wants to see what you can do to make use of their GPU, so they figured a great thing to do would be to give Pixel Bender a spin. They seem to be focusing on Pixel Bender in Photoshop CS4, but what’s great about it is you’ll be able to use that same filter in After Effects CS4 or the Flash Player. If you’re looking to get started, Lee has a couple of great Pixel Bender tutorials. Posted in Flash Player having no comments ? Congrats to the Eco Zoo - Winner of the FWA Site of the Year Award January 19th, 2009 by ryanstewart I was lucky enough to be a judge for The FWA Site of the Year awards. If you haven’t seen it, ou should spend some time on the FWA site. It’s far and away the best collection of Flash content out there and you’ll come away feeling inspired. This year’s winner was The Eco Zoo by a few agencies: McCann Erickson Japan, ENJIN Inc, and ROXIK. The site uses some great PaperVision effects and is a really, really fun use of Flash. I’m hoping those guys are going to be at MAX Japan next week. Posted in Flash Player having 2 comments ? Obama’s Inauguration: Brought to you With ColdFusion and Flash January 16th, 2009 by ryanstewart Nice. There is a very good roundup by Andrew Nusca on where to watch the Obama Inauguration next week online. I blogged about this earlier, but what I thought was interesting is that Andrew mentions the site for the folks that are “in charge of all the inaugural activities at the capitol” - the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies - and they have a .gov address, so they mean business. They’re offering closed captioning of the entire thing. How are they delivering it? Flash. And what’s that extension on their site? That’s right, it’s ColdFusion! Posted in ColdFusion, Flash having 3 comments ? Flash Catalyst Slides from my San Flashcisco Presentation January 16th, 2009 by ryanstewart I just uploaded the Flash Catalyst slides from my presentation last night to the San Flashcisco user group. You should be able to download them from that link. It was a very, very fun event, and I got a lot of questions - some easy, some a lot harder. I hope I answered all of them to some level of satisfaction and everyone had fun. I’m still embarrassed I can’t always remember how to make a motion tween in Flash. I need to spend more time with Lee. I didn’t actually get to many of these slides because I dove into the demo and answered questions, so if you were there, they probably won’t look very familiar. Hopefully they provide some extra info/context to the demo. Thanks to everyone who came out! Posted in Flash Catalyst having no comments ? Making Money with AIR - TweetDeck Gets Funding January 16th, 2009 by ryanstewart Congrats to Iain of TweetDeck! According to TechCrunch they have secured about $500,000 of angel funding in a very, very tough economy from Betaworks. According to TechCrunch: TweetDeck is the work of one man, British programmer Iain Dodsworth, who says the TweetDeck Adobe AIR-powered and hence cross-platform desktop application has been downloaded 250,000 times since he launched it over last Summer, and that users are pushing 120,000 messages a day to their Twitter followers using the software. Iain and TweetDeck are a great example of how you can quickly and easily create a desktop application with a great user interface and make a big impact. Iain did a superb job with the UI, and chose a great platform. I continue to be really, really excited about what AIR means for developers and end users. Great programming model, powerful runtime, and all of it is cross-platform on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It’s cool stuff. Posted in Adobe AIR having 10 comments ? Flash Video Powering The Presidential Inauguration January 16th, 2009 by ryanstewart On the podcast today Coté and I were talking about the inauguration as an online event. There’s a ton going on. Almost every major site is going to be streaming the inaugural ceremonies. But there are many different ways people are doing it. For the most part, as you’d expect, it’s being done in Flash. Basically all of the major media sites - CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, etc. - are all going to be using Flash. CNN is even going to be inserting ads into the live stream which is pretty cool. Oddly, just like the Olympics, the “official” site is going with Silverlight. But like we saw with the Olympics, I’m pretty sure most of the viewing is going to be done in Flash because ultimately the barrier to entry is so small, everyone has it, and Flash just works. As I told Coté, I think this is going to be fascinating from a number crunching standpoint. With so many options to watch the video, where are people going to go? And how will penetration of the technology used to stream the content affect that? With the Olympics, there was just one way Americans could watch the event - with Silverlight - but for the inauguration, people will be able to select any news media outlet and any format they want. I think it’s going to be a great mini experiment in how much penetration really matters as well as how much the brand of various media outlets matter. Anyone who has watched Hulu in HD knows Flash has fantastic quality, and the install numbers for Flash Player 10 have been amazing, so our ubiquity isn’t slowing down. The combination of innovation and ubiquity add up to a pretty ideal experience and I think the numbers coming out of the inauguration are going to show exactly that. Go Flash!! Update: Hah, I don’t actually think this is the reason they went with Silverlight, but I thought it was funny: To note: The list of donors to the inaugural committee does not include any contributors who list Silverlight-rival Adobe Systems as an employer. As we have reported here before, it does include several high-profile Microsoft executives, including CEO Steve Ballmer. A Microsoft spokeswoman has said, “These donations are personal contributions from the named Microsoft executives, and not representative of Microsoft the corporation.” I am really curious to hear the real reason, so if anyone sees it, please let me know. Posted in Adobe, Flash having 7 comments ? Perform Adobe LiveDocs and Development Help Searches Right From your Browser January 14th, 2009 by ryanstewart I was talking with John Musser today about OpenSearch and the ability to add various search engines to your browser. I had assumed there was some special sauce that made it possible to use Google/MSN/Yahoo/Wikipedia directly from your search bar, but in talking to John I discovered that it’s pretty easy to do. I was going to create one for Adobe’s developer help and get a whole lot of kudos, but we’ve already got it! If you want to add Adobe’s community search to your browser search bar, just search for something on the Adobe community site and you should get a popup offering to add it to your browser. If you don’t, in Firefox you can just click the little down arrow in your search bar (on the right hand side) and there should be an option to add Community Help to your search bar. Easy access to help content! Posted in Uncategorized having no comments ? ? Previous Entries About Platform Evangelist for Adobe About the Author ZDNet Check out my ZDNet blog covering Rich Internet Applications: The Universal Desktop Dopplr Where am I? 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