I’ve just been playing around with jQuery. It’s an amazing framework. It really speeds up development, and make RIA development for the web very easy – much easier than Flash. The only drawback is that browser compatibility becomes an issue. I created a friend manager and avatar builder using jQuery, and after launch I got a lot of reports from users of IE7 on Vista. It seems that jQuery was crashing their browser.
With the upcoming new Flash Player 10, stricter crossdomain rules are breaking Amazon S3 for those of us who wish to load content using the Flash Player. It seems that Amazon will need to do some work to make sure that the new Flash Player will work with Amazon S3, specifically they will need to define new meta-policy files to allow us to continue to use policy files within our buckets.
I’m pleased to announce that we just completed the redesign of the Mochi Media web site and pushed it live! I welcome you to come on over and learn more about the company and our products. We’re growing fast and having a great time building an awesome platform for Flash game developers to push it to the limit!
Amazon Web Services made big news yesterday with their six or so hours of mid-day downtime. I didn’t even notice until I logged in to check my MochiBot stats. I use Amazon S3 for Slideroll, both as a storage and hosting service. It’s a great service that’s allowed the site to continue growing without having to constantly worry about upgrading to add storage space and hosting capacity.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the privilege of working with Daniel Jacobson of NPR.org in developing a Flash widget that utilizes their newly-released API. The result of these efforts is the Reverbiage World Widget that plots stories on a 3d globe. The widget is written in ActionScript 3.0 using my own 3d engine currently in development.
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