We’ve been working with Beatport.com for the last month on a downloader for their music.
The downloader is build in Flex with the Adobe Integrated Runtime. Lots of custom skinning and some cool File API stuff going on behind the scenes, as well as custom settings. Here are a couple of screen shots:
ApolloRanch is a mini-conference similar to ApolloCamp. Thanks to Xylem CCI (Xlyem and Creation Chamber merged on April 30th) for putting together and hosting the ApolloRanch, they’ve done a great job so far! ApolloRanch is at the Fisk Planetarium (shoot for the starts Apollo!) on the CU campus in Bolder.
Mike Chambers gave the keynote as well as a “creating your first Apollo application” presentation.
Here is a frew of the highlights:
Apollo Beta to be released on Labs around mid June (keep an eye on Labs)
Many of the missing APIs will be in the beta; drag-and-drop, clipboard
Philo (Adobe Media Player) Preview: Very interesting media player. RSS feed based “channels” for video contnet delivery (FLV).
Some more of the release timeline:
Apollo 1.0, Moxie (Flex 3.0), Philo 1.0 - late Fall early Winter
Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their
existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and
deploy desktop RIA’s.
Well, I tried to get up a post about the rest of the ApolloCamp presos the next morning, but my connection was crap, and the post seems to have been lost, so here goes the rest.
Kevin Hoyt – Nice Presentation on the File API. One huge bonus is the ability to read and write ActionScript object directly. I’ve played with the file IO stuff a little so this was cool to see.
Daniel Dura – Awesome “cookbook” session lots of good. Quick examples, of the Apollo’s windowing etc.
EUI – Gave a presentation on a desktop application they have been working with Ebay on. The cool thing here wasn’t really the application, although some of the features of the app (data filtering) were right up there, but the Java Bridge framework that EUI has been working on. Codenamed Artemis, it allows for access to low-level system functions through Java. Think a wii-mote controlled light saber on the big screen. You can learn more at http://artemis.effectiveui.com/.
Finetune – Showed off their media player that they have been working on. Very cool features like recognizing a playlist on someone’s site and keeping it playing in the desktop application when you leave that persons site!
I’m sure I’ve forgotten quite a bit of all the cool stuff that was presented. I do want to give a big thanks to all those involved with ApolloCamp. It was a great event, and I’m sure a ton of work. Good job everyone!
Lots of cool stuff with JavaScript and HTML integration. The HTML component, being able to load in both Google and Yahoo maps at the same time. Nice stuff, but it seems to me like it is just asking for spaghetti code. Of course that is up to the code management of the developer. Pretty cool presentation, but not a whole lot of meat as far as what I’m interested in.
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We’ve been working with Beatport.com for the last month on a downloader for their music.
