hates the internet

Almost a year ago I became involved with a Web 2.0 startup called Fundfindr which aimed to be a social network of entrepreneurs, VCs and angels.

Panda is a canvas based rich media portal supporting multiple resolution image zooming, multiple bitrate Flash video and various audio formats.

One of the sweetest things about FLV is the way it handles it's cue points. With Windows Media you're limited to a command type and some command data, but with Flash each cue can contain an object with as many properties as needed. Seeing as my MetaData patches have found their way into trunk (revision 2288), I thought I'd do a quick writeup on how it works.

The project I’m working on now started life as a generic LAMP project with a Windows Media drop in. Now that Red5 is nearing its 1.0 release, I decided I should start evaluating moving to a Flash-based solution and, to use a cliche, there was no looking back.

Firewalls are a necessary evil in today's world and, although some corporate firewalls may be severely restricted, it's fairly trivial to get Red5 and your ActionScript project to work within their bounds.