Those who've known me for a while have no doubt heard me talking about a rich media framework a friend and I have been tinkering with for the last few years and the wait is over: I'll be showing off a rough alpha version at DemoCampGuelph.
In the beginning, there was MultiRez. It was born of a desire for an efficient way of viewing extremely large images at high quality while allowing full zooming and panning without requiring a several megabyte JPEG to be trucked around. It was basically some file management baked in to an extremely clever PERL script, but it could take any image in any format and turn it into something useful.
A short time later, MultiRez begot Panda. Panda took the from everything philosophy of MultiRez and made it possible for HTML, audio, video and even ANSI to join the party. Panda, however, was still nothing more than clever file management and there was no real back-end to speak of, so managing media soon became an extremely difficult task.
Enter Fluid. Or, at least, an alpha version of Fluid. The clever file management is now hidden behind a temporary backend that's a hybrid of Drupal and AMFPHP, Panda's migrated from Flash to Flex and everything can be used without performing esoteric Vulcan death pinches on the keyboard. As of yet it’s not quite ready for public consumption, but that milestone grows closer and closer with each new build.
This will be the first time I’ve ever shown off a personal project to more than a couple people at a time and for the ones of people who read my blog and haven’t already done so, sign up, come out and see how much free beer it took to calm my nerves.
For those who can't wait, check out www.fluid.io to see the beast in action.
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