Flex 2: When the big boys pull out the guns

Filed under: Flash, Flex — Wrote by Campbell on Saturday, October 29th, 2005 @ 12:45 am

Wow is all that left my lips when I happend across Darron Schall's post about Flash VNC. He doesn't get into alot of detail but basically it is a swf interface to a VNC server. If you not sure what VNC or Virtual Network Computing is check out the Wiki HERE but basically its controling another computer from a remote location. What you see on screen is pretty much what you would see if you were physically right infront of the remote controled computer.

The cool thing (which I cant wait to see but probably cant justify the cost of) is the source of his encryption class and socket protocols. Nun the less its early days so Im sure well see all the diferent network related technologies emulated in flash.

This is the point of this post really. It has only been 10 days scince the release of Flex 2 and the 8.5 flash player but we are begining to see all the oportunities open up in peoples little tests. I think its safe to say that AJAX will have its place on the web (Googles RSS Reader) but Flash will be taking it 2-3 steps futher.

So go check out Darrons blog post which outlines the project in a little more detail, and get a glimps of what to come.

Bring on the next generation of web applications, but the sad thing is I have to go back to work on Monday and enter the mundane world of .Net and  again emoticon  anyone want a Flex developer in New Zealand ? I bet that will be the wish of a few hardened flash developer (the uber geek kind ) all over the place.

In other news I have been playing with Remobjects .net remoting server to see what possibilities there are for intergration with flash. If I can prove that it will be a preformer then I may be able to swing some Flex work with my employer when the 8.5/9? player is released. Be a whole lot cooler then. By the way I work for RightHemisphere creating web interfaces to thier 3d processing server. Might be time for an about page on this site me thinks. And I could stick something up in the flash site.

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  • Comment by Campbell | October 29, 2005 @ 12:48 am

    P.S. I am preparing myself for Flash this, and AJAX that, this is better blah blah comments. Remember these are just my opinions :) and are by no means reflect the opinion of a sane person :o P

  • Comment by Campbell | October 31, 2005 @ 10:34 pm

    Just checking the antispam

  • Comment by Campbell | October 31, 2005 @ 10:40 pm

    Hahaha it apears that the spammers didnt like my javascript comments and decided to start spamming me. Hope the font in the comments isnt too hard to read :)

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