SWF It Good

So I love being on the computer and I love exploring the world of flash. Sometimes that poses a problem because I like watching tv (my tv is not near my computer) and not having to wait for it to download through torrents. So I found through Mashable, hulu.

Hulu is nice all around. It works 10x better then ABC’s player. The interface is nice, it gives you the lots of info on the video like when it aired, and who was in it. I enjoy the face that you can gray out everything on the page to focus your eyes on the video not the dumb banner ads.

Lastly the best thing is you can embed it anywhere. Why? Because somebody smart though let’s not restrict where the video can play and allow the ads to stream in no matter where it’s embedded. I have a Simpsons episode from last week on my myspace.

Check hulu out.

Update at: How to Add and Remove Mediators in an Actionscript 3 PureMVC App

So I have been working alot w/ PureMVC, well everyday for the last month to be exact. I’m going to try to explain PureMVC the best way I know how. It may not be the best, but I hope it can get you started. And when you learn something let me know.

So the example I am doing is a simple one using Lee Brimelow’s code from the ActionScript 3 Advanced XML example. The only difference between his and what I changed is some method name changes and putting it in PureMVC.

So if you don’t know what PureMVC is or you are quite confused on how to use it…well so am I . I’m still learned and hopefully can teach some stuff. I’m not going to go into the specifics of this framework but think of it as a way to introduce a lot separation of code using the Model, View, Controller. I’ll explain what I see as the benefits after I explain the example.

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I didn’t think this was going to happen with Yahoo Maps going Ajax and the maps hack they released last year (Yahoo! Maps API Flex 2 Communication Kit).

Check it out: http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/