February 2009
5 posts
Creating a REST API for a Flash application
We have been working hard to implement an XML-based REST-style API for Floorplanner and some of our partners are using it already to access their users and plans. We now have started to use this API ourselves.
The Floorplanner Flash application communicates with our servers to load and save projects and designs. The backend for this functionality used to be written in PHP. Eliminating this PHP...
Umair on Constructive Capitalism
This might be a little off topic, but I found it interesting enough to share it with you all. It’s about the future of capitalism: Constructive Capitalism through the principles of Renewal, Peace, Equity, Meaning and Democracy.
It’s a presentation Umair Haque gave at Daytona Sessions last month. Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that...
Write JAVA, publish SWF
Ted Patrick (Senior Manager Developer Communities at Adobe Systems) has posted an interesting article about the first milestone of the Eclipse E4 project.
It seems that the SWT project has added compilation support for SWF from JAVA. Write your app in JAVA and publish as SWF to Flash Player. The cool part is that you get full JAVA development in Eclipse with all debugging and tooling but you get a...
Wii Boxing
Gert-Jan is on the left side and Jaap on the right.
Nico is on the left side and Willem on the right.
Floorplanning in the Cloud, EC2
There is a lot of hype these day about being in “the cloud”. However, “the cloud” seems to mean a lot of different things. Tim O’Reilly sees three types of cloud computing. His first type, utility computing, is the type I’m talking about here.
Utility computing. Amazon’s success in providing virtual machine instances, storage, and computation at...
