{"id":56,"date":"2007-12-08T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2007\/12\/08\/report-flexcamp-boston-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:13:08","slug":"report-flexcamp-boston-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/report-flexcamp-boston-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Report:  FlexCamp Boston 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/img_8987.jpg\" title=\"img_8987.jpg\" alt=\"img_8987.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/> I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexcampboston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FlexCamp Boston<\/a> yesterday.  It was for Flash developers (which I&#8217;m not), with lots of code examples and live shots of dev tools.  It was a good way to get immersed in what Adobe&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>I think Flash is extremely interesting &#8212; it&#8217;s got a chance to attain the client-side, interactive, Web-component vision that Java never seemed to reach.  Flash has succeeded, in part, because of great vector graphics and video support.  Also, unlike Java, Flash came under Microsoft&#8217;s radar.  By the time Flash became effectively ubiquitous, it was too late for Redmond.<\/p>\n<p>The new Flash 9 Player puts Flash squarely on par with Java (technology-wise),  with a high-performance JIT VM (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/productinfo\/features\/#vm\" target=\"_blank\">AVM2<\/a>), a real programming language (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/actionscript\/\">ActionScript<\/a>), and a mature tool set.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe&#8217;s working further up the stack (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/livecycle\/\" target=\"_blank\">LifeCycle Data Services<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/coldfusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">ColdFusion<\/a>, etc.), but the server-side technologies seem much less relevant.  Adobe&#8217;s clearly trying to monetize the Flash franchise (in part) through server-side tie-ins, but there&#8217;s tough competition there from open source offerings.  Of the examples I saw and developers I talked to, most &#8220;rolled their own&#8221;, using low-level protocols to connect to a simple, custom server-side infrastructure.  Plus, a $20k single CPU license will be a hard sell, when the underlying hardware only costs $4k (or $100\/month).<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:   I think we&#8217;re going to see Flash used more and more.  If you&#8217;re working on a project with a high-interactivity component, you should take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to FlexCamp Boston yesterday. It was for Flash developers (which I&#8217;m not), with lots of code examples and live shots of dev tools. It was a good way to get immersed in what Adobe&#8217;s doing. I think Flash &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/report-flexcamp-boston-2007\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}