If you're considering the purchase of a new digital camera, you might
want to read this
article from PC Magazine. The
Editors' Choice winners are:
For $300: Nikon
Coolpix 2500
For $500:
Fujifilm Finepix F601 Zoom
I'm planning on buying one in the next few months for the arrival
of the little one. Hopefully this article will make my
decision easier - more research needed.
Good news! On the install, when I didn't enter a serial number, I received the following message:
No serial number has been entered. Macromedia Flash Remoting MX for Java will operate as a full-featured 30-day trial and then revert to a Developer edition, allowing only localhost plus a single-IP to connect.
Swwweeeeeettt! About time they started giving out "Developer editions." The install includes a WAR or EAR file (with samples) - your choice. Basically, it's up to you to deploy - the choice is just which ones you'd like placed on your hard drive for deployment. As a service to my readers - download the war.
BTW, I tried to publish the samples to this site, and it appears that there are some hard-coded localhost references in *.fla files. I checked all the JSPs and fixed one, but it didn't help. Works great locally on Windows XP, Tomcat 4.0.4, JDK 1.4.1.
From theserverside.com:
Macromedia today announced Macromedia Flash Remoting MX for J2EE
AppServers (and also for .NET). Flash Remoting MX allows you to
connect any J2EE-backend (EJB's, JMX, Servlets, java classes) to new
GUI written in Flash; it was already used to create a new Petstore GUI
on top of the original Petstore EJB layer. [
press release ]
The interesting thing about this product is that it seems to
be app-server agnostic. Here are the system requirements:
Microsoft .NET Support
· Intel Pentium II processor or faster
· 256 MB RAM (512 recommended)
· 5 MB hard disk space
· Microsoft .NET Framework v1.0 SDK
· Windows 2000 Server SP2
· Windows XP Professional
· Macromedia Flash MX
· Macromedia Flash Player 6,0,47,0, or later
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Java Support
· 256 MB RAM (512 recommended)
· 5 MB hard disk space
· Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
· Windows 2000 Server SP2
· Linux: Red Hat 7.3 or SuSE 7.3
· Unix: SPARC Solaris 2.7, 8
· J2EE 1.2, 1.3
· Servlet 2.2, 2.3
· Macromedia Flash MX
· Macromedia Flash Player 6,0,47,0 or later
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A 5.64 MB Download. It troubles me that it's a trial
download though. That means that Macromedia is going to
charge me if I ever want to use this. In other Macromedia news, they
sent me an e-mail today asking me if I wanted to be a beta tester for HomeSite 5.2! My fingers are crossed for Java support.
Maybe we should use the Xopus WYSIWYG XML editor for Roller instead of Ekit? It's pretty cool - at least the demo (might be IE/Windows only) I tried. The demo allowed me to type directly on the page and to change formatting of text simply by right-clicking. This screenshot seems to indicate a different editing mode than the one I saw. Best of all it appears to work in Mozilla and is open source. Release date? Currently we are working hard to release the final version before the OSCOM conference end of September.
Bitflux Editor also appears to be very cool - same type of concept with editing of an HTML page like you would in Dreamweaver. See the demo here. The good news? It is another open source project. The bad news? It only works in Mozilla. Nothing like shutting out 90% of Internet users.
All this good stuff found originally at Gerhard Froehlich's blog, who appears to have found it from Slashdot.
Last week, after the shindig in Vegas, my parents met me and we drove from Vegas back to Denver - through Zion National Park, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde National Park. The photo below is what we dropped our jaws to on Saturday morning. Click on it to view President Roosevelt's speech at the Grand Canyon on May 6, 1903.
"the one great sight every American...should see" -- President Theodore Roosevelt
