The Blog

  • AMFR.js Example

    February 8th, 2013 by surrey

    AMFR.js AMF.js is the javascript client for R-AMF server.  It uses a custom version of AMF, version 99.  The custom version was created in an effort to reduce the number of bytes sent over the wire.  On a per client … more

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  • Configuring R-AMF For Use with AMFR.js and AMF3

    February 8th, 2013 by surrey

    R-AMF R-AMF is the name I’ve given the no frills implementation of Adobe’s AMF server I wrote in an effort to improve efficiency and fix a few bugs that bothered me.  It stemmed from the requirement to move to HTML … more

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  • Amazon AWS Micro Instance Mysql Locking up

    October 26th, 2012 by surrey

    Just a quick blog entry here to help out those starting with Amazon AWS (cloud).  One of the easiest and cheapest ways to get started is with an Amazon AMI linux micro instance.  This is a small and fast instance … more

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  • Binary communication using AJAX and AMF

    October 16th, 2012 by surrey

    So we have moved on from Flex for the most part and taken up GWT and pure javascript to write our rich clients or fat clients or HTML 5 clients.  One thing we’ve wanted to do is retain our underlying … more

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  • What now for Reignite and Flex?

    November 16th, 2011 by russell

    You have probably seen the two big announcements from Adobe recently. 1. they are abandoning the Flash Plugin on Mobile Devices 2. they are contributing Flex to the Apache Foundation Basically Adobe is moving away from Flash and towards HTML5. … more

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  • An AMF client implemented in GWT

    September 30th, 2011 by surrey

    One of the biggest problems faced by any application is when you want to change front end technologies.  In our case we wanted to introduce a Google Web Toolkit generated interface into an existing Flex application.  While there are many … more

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  • HTML 5 Vs Flex

    April 19th, 2011 by surrey

    There are endless discussion flying around the ‘net regarding the match up between HTML 5 and Flash.  I thought I’d take a moment to give my view on the whole affair. Definitions First up, let’s get our terms defined so … more

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  • Blaze Push Messaging In A Cluster

    February 25th, 2011 by surrey

    The Scene: Imagine the scenario where you have two application servers behind a hardware load balancer.  Imagine that the load balancer uses “round-robin” style balancing.  That is, rather than using sticky sessions to associate a client machine with a single … more

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  • Editable Bullets, List Items with TLF and Flex 4

    February 24th, 2011 by Justin Pante

    So Everyone knows the story… Why oh why were there no bullets with TLF 1?! I Know TLF 2 is in development and around the corner but unfortunately we couldn’t wait.  We had the requirement to move to the more … more

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