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The perfect crossfade

I find it hard to describe this problem in words, which is why I made a video (45 seconds) to illustrate it. Here's a preview of the questions, please have a look at it on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/epologee/perfect-crossfade The issue of creating a…
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How to talk a client out of a Flash website?

I have recently been doing a bunch of web side projects through word of mouth recommendations only. Although I am much more a of a programmer than a designer by any means, my design skills are not terrible, and do not hate dealing with UI like many…
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In a legacy codebase, how do I quickly find out what is being used and what isn't?

I've been asked to evaluate what appears to be a substantial legacy codebase, as a precursor to taking a contract maintaining that codebase. This isn't the first time I've been in this situation. In the present instance, the code is for a reasonably…
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Is Flash really superior to Java applets?

I'm still a student, without much real life experience in programming. I've never written anything bigger than ~5k lines of code. I've written code in both Flash and Java, and I just can't understand why people are writing web applications like…
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Is HTML 5 good enough for developers to switch from Flash?

Just curious, because many developers use Flash to do many things that HTML 4 (correct me if I'm wrong) or below cannot or had a hard time doing, like for example the rounded corners (Canvass) and that Video Thing and many more. I have not actually…
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Facebook authentication with an Authoritative Server for a Flash Game

I'm working on a multiplatform game in Flash. This game utilizes Photon Server for authoritative physics and user statistics tracking. I'm looking to leverage Facebook authentication as an alternative to creating a domain specific account. I'm…
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Where did Java go wrong on the client?

Not talking about the recent Java/Oracle debacle here, but something I've been wondering recently. When I first started programming, Java was the big thing client-side, however these days you hardly ever see a Java applet whereas Flash and…
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Is it better to have C developers learn Flash, than hire Flash guys?

Last year, my department developed web based gaming, and needed Flash. It was difficult to manage. The Flash guys didn't fit in regardless of skill or popularity in the office. Maybe it's prejudice from the AS 2.0 days, or C programmers do things…
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How does enterprise level Flash development work?

I started working at a PHP shop and occasionally we have to go and tweak some legacy Flash and actionscript code. It's a small shop; we have about six developers. It seems almost every time we pull a flash file down from SVN, we run into some…
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Help me understand how to stream video

I'm an experienced PHP web developer that is looking to understand the options available for streaming video. What I have: a video processing system (this one) that can provide output to various streaming servers / CDNs / HTTPs. What I want: the…
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Best event based architecture for Linux to GUI

I've looked around a bit and probably haven't found the right medium for this question so let me know if there's a different forum I should bother. First, there is an application managed by another group that does some simulations and communicates…
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is requiring a video player download acceptable

Our site currently is going to require our users to download a player to view videos they will want to view on our site. The videos get uploaded by users from various sources (smartphones in 3gp format for example). However most people have Flash…
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Strategies to find memory leak in AIR app with native extension

Background: I'm working on an Adobe AIR app that has many facets. I'm looking for strategies to find memory leaks. Broadly speaking, the EXE contains an embedded JVM, and an AIR Native Extension for Windows (using C). So there are many moving…
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open source flash environments

I have been looking for a really good open source flash development environment with no success. The best I could find would help in the development of pretty much everything, but I still needed to have Adobe Flash Professional in order to compile…
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Code and intellectual property

Years ago I developed a website in Flash for one of my clients. I was in charge of code/animation and also maintaining Hosting and Domain. I also have a basic contract with my client and in the contract it does not mention who is the owner for the…
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