Posts Tagged ‘Flash’

Flash application development,makes software solutions easy

October 26th, 2010

Flash games development has seen some massive changes over last couple of years in the way it is viewed. If experts of industry are to be believed, sudden spurt in its user-base has come to foray ever since online gaming joined the gaming market. Flash has evolved as the most preferred choice among developers of Flash games. It gives these developers the option to choose some user-friendly features that are not cumbersome at all. For example, creating a derivative work within a very short span of time becomes easy when these developers are able to know their developer code. “First impression is the best impression.” With numerous options present in Flash, it allows them to prove the famous adage correct.

Most Flash game developers keep in mind, these developments of games should have ability to leave an impact in minds of those playing the game. When a developer try’s to develop a game, he normally looks forward to better monetary emoluments. Flash allows him achieving this with better medium of applicability and plenty of avenues which most developers are known to explore. Developers have always found it easy to use Flash in many different circumstances because of flexibility it offers. For instance, they can get commission from game advertising, can fulfill demands of clients who choose these developers to develop games for them, strike lucrative sponsorship deals, take part in design contests that are held by numerous games portals, do in-game purchases with sole motive to sell them to gamers with an expectation to make commercial gains, etc.

It is interesting to note, Flash application development process involves use of some simple charts, data entry widgets sound, graphs, animation, video, etc. The simplicity of features present in Flash has led to growth of powerful online applications to cater varied needs of business. That is the reason why it has benefited education, entertainment, e-commerce and online retail. Presence of successful retail based Internet applications (RIAs) such as Airtreks Trip Planner, Timberland Boot Configurator, Concept Retail and RbkCustom are testimony to this.Flash is believed to have plenty of similarities when it is compared with other application development languages such as Java, NET, and C++.

Source:http://www.articlepinch.com/flash-application-development-makes-software-solutions-easy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flash-application-development-makes-software-solutions-easy

Bad computer software caused may’s ‘Flash crash

October 2nd, 2010

Remember back on May 6th when the Dow dropped around 1,000 points only to bounce back to a mere few hundred point loss? The cause of the so-called “Flash Crash” has finally been identified by the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was a problem with some computer software that automated futures trading. Ben Rooney at CNN/Money reports that some large unnamed investor was using the a program that sold future contracts quickly and in large numbers:

The selling was initially absorbed by “high frequency traders” and other buyers, the report said. But the algorithm responded to an rise in trading volume by increasing the number of E-mini sell orders it was feeding into the market.

“What happened next is best described in terms of two liquidity crises — one at the broad index level in the E-Mini, the other with respect to individual stocks,” the report said.

In other words, the lack of buyers and the rapid selling of E-Mini futures contracts began to affect the underlying stocks and the broader stock indexes.

Source:http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/10/bad-computer-software-caused-mays-flash-crash/63925/

Time for the Flashblock browser extension

September 14th, 2010

The Adobe Reader and Flash player currently have critical unpatched bugs.

Yet again. Been there done that, way too often in fact.

Defending against the Adobe Reader is easy, just un-install it and use alternate PDF viewing software. Not much else to say.

Avoiding Flash is not as practical. The current Flash bug, for example, exists under Windows, Macs, Linux, UNIX and even the Android operating system. Flash is also included in the Adobe Reader, another reason to seek out an alternative.

The good news is that it is fairly easy to defend our browsers against Flash. Doing so, requires installing a browser add-on/plug-in/extension.

Writing in The Register Dan Goodin suggested using NoScript in Firefox, a recommendation that was echoed by Brian Krebs. I disagree, for two reasons.

For one, NoScript does not run in Chrome, Google’s up and coming browser. Then too, NoScript does a lot, it is not just focused on Flash, and thus may be overkill and/or intimidating for non-techies.

In contrast, there are fairly simple Flashblock extensions available for both Firefox and Chrome. Each replaces instances of Flash in a web page with placeholders. The Flash does not run, by default. If you want it to run, you simply click on the placeholder. An example is at the end of this posting.

The Firefox extension has been downloaded over 9.4 million times. Below is a cheat sheet for installing it.

You can get Flashblock for Firefox here. To install it click the green “Add to Firefox” button.

Source:http://blogs.computerworld.com/16952/time_for_the_flashblock_browser_extension?source=rss_blogs

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes