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Microsoft DRM part 3

Tom Barker
November 17, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Next in my series describing my implementation of Microsoft DRM I will detail how I refined the work flow to a single process. This process is portable, can be run on any machine, so it negates the need to...

Microsoft DRM part 2

Tom Barker
October 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)

In my previous article I talked about setting up an installation of Microsoft DRM, and some of the pitfalls encountered with the base set up. In this article I will detail how I refined that process. As I described previously,...

Microsoft DRM part 1

Tom Barker
October 26, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)

When I worked at Music Choice - almost five years ago - one of my responsibilities was to architect our implementation of Microsoft DRM. In fact my very first day with the company my boss, Stu who was and still...

A Treatise on Social Networks

Tom Barker
October 19, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Maybe I'm just an aging curmudgeon, or a classic DiSC C-type personality but I'm not a fan of social networks. I've tried to get into them, I gave them a chance. Years ago I tried MySpace and Xanga and just...

On Continuing Education and Eating My Own Dogfood

Tom Barker
October 3, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

So after writing in one of my early articles about how once you've found a company that you consider a home that you should invest your time wisely and take advantage of the company's tuition reimbursement benefits, I decided to...

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 2

Tom Barker
September 25, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 2

In a previous article I outlined why I needed to inject JavaScript into a page from ActionScript, now I'd like to show the implementation. Essentially I created a new class called JSInjector. Within JSInjector I created a static function...

O'Reilly Training - JavaScript the Good Parts

Tom Barker
September 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)

We just brought in Douglas Crockford to do a department-wide training for all of our front-end engineers, as part of the O'Reilly Training Master Classes, and it was a phenomenal experience. Douglas Crockford is a master level engineer able to...

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 1

Tom Barker
September 7, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)

In some of my recent articles I detailed the architecture and some implementation of a video player swapper - that is a video player that can play different kinds of videos, assuming that the videos required specific unique players. After...

Memory Management with the Dictionary Object

Tom Barker
August 31, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (4)

In my previous article I detailed the architecture for a video player that would switch between multiple players, using composition to support the same interface across each layer of the architecture. The architecture worked out really well, but when I...

Composition and the Player Swapper

Tom Barker
August 17, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Around a year ago I was given the task to create an architecture for a syndicatable video player, capable of playing any video that might be served up by our different products. The first thing I had to do was...

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Using Flash Remoting for Authentication to your AFCS/Facebook AIR Application
Russ Ferguson

If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Decorator Design Pattern
Sean Moore

Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
Flash to iPhone
Veronique Brossier

The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading
AIR 2 Enhancements Complete Overview
Elad Elrom

Adobe just released public information about AIR 2.0 and added new capabilities that better tie with the operation systems which gives your application more control while increasing performance. The new version will be deployed on Flash player 10 using Flex... Continue Reading

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Microsoft DRM part 3

Microsoft DRM part 2

Microsoft DRM part 1

A Treatise on Social Networks

On Continuing Education and Eating My Own Dogfood

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 2

O'Reilly Training - JavaScript the Good Parts

ExternalInterface and Code Injection Part 1

Memory Management with the Dictionary Object

Composition and the Player Swapper

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