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YouTube say Flash is key for Video. Longtail video agree.

mattjpoole — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:32:38 +0000

After the dust of HTML5 vs Flash settles, key sites for delivering video while recognising the importance of HTML5 are now publicly endorsing Adobe Flash as the primary vehicle for consuming video on the web. In a new blog post YouTube cite Quality of Service, Syndication, Fullscreen and encoding formats as the main reasons that [...]

BBC iPlayer v3 goes to public beta

mattjpoole — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:08:10 +0000

A brand new version of the BBC iPlayer website has gone to public beta. Go and check it out: http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer Other than the swanky new carbon fibre design other features include: * Socialisation * Personaliation * Better Navigation It also includes updates to the BBC’s Media Player and the iPlayer desktop AIR app (which goes to version 2.0). [...]

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions: Part 3

mattjpoole — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:18:41 +0000

Previously I took you through some of my thinking and decisions as I created this LinkedList implementation. In this post I’ll give you the final unit tested source along with the unit tests and give you the results of a performance test using Grant Skinners PerfomanceTest framework Originally this was a fun challenge for myself, but [...]

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions: Part 2

mattjpoole — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:40:26 +0000

In my first post on this subject I discussed the pros and cons of using an interface for typing list elements versus using a concrete class. I opted for a interface for greater flexibility and argued that a concrete link node class could implement the interface and overcome the drawbacks of just using an interface. Today [...]

AS3 Linked List implementing Array class member functions

mattjpoole — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:41:53 +0000

Linked List implementations are not new in AS3, but I hadn’t got one yet in my library and using them came up at work so I figured I use Bank Holiday Friday to whip one up. To make it a little more fun I decided to try and mimc as many of the Array class member [...]

Safely reusing Singleton classes in multi-instance apps

mattjpoole — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:12:03 +0000

Wisdom seems to have it that in general Singletons are mostly bad. The actual usecase where you need “one and only one” instance in an application are few are far between. The web is awash with opinion about the pros and cons of using Signletons, that is not my aim here. This post is aimed at [...]

Flash Player 10.1 will kill HTML5

mattjpoole — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:08:02 +0000

I’ve never made a habbit of link blogging (ie just posting links to other blogs without making any sort of intellegent comment), but this one is too important to be missed and speaks well enough for itself. Fabio ftw.

SystemClockChangeWatcher

mattjpoole — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:29:19 +0000

When dealing with time sensitive applications (pretty much anything that needs to compare local times and/or remote server time) changes in the system clock can at best make for a bad user experience and at worst provide a means of circumventing critical business logic. Consider the situation where a user or system event is scheduled for [...]

Forgive me Father…

mattjpoole — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:17:12 +0000

Its been 6 months… make that 7 months since my last blog post. Its not like I’m a prolific blogger at the best of times, but I set out to come up with at least one interesting post a month. So much for that. I still have a fire burning in my belly for the [...]

Adobe AIR is dead… long live Adobe AIR.

mattjpoole — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:44:55 +0000

I’ve read a couple of posts today about Adobe AIR suggesting that the honeymoon period for Adobe AIR is over. Sarah Perez Over at ReadWriteWeb asks “Are you over AIR Applications?” citing AIR apps like TweetDeck, Seesmic and DeskTube as apps that have no good reason to be desktop apps saying “there’s no reason why [...]