Christophe Herreman

I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2 and changed the theme of the blog. If it looks weird in your browser please let me know so I can change it.

 Here’s a Christmas card for all you guys. The little fellow is Thomas my 11 month old son. The text is in Dutch but you’ll get the meaning.

 

I hope the coming year will be as good as 2005. A lot has happened and I can only say it was awesome. Getting married and becoming a dad were the most remarkable events in my personal life. On the job I had the chance to be working on a pretty large e-learning project which is completely build in Flash. I’ve had tons of fun playing around with some the new OSFlash projects and enjoyed contributing wherever possible.

My resolutions for the new year (and thinking out loud):

• read more non-tech books: I’ve been reading the Da Vinci code by Dan Brown and I love it. I should read more of this stuff. What about reading one for every tech book I read? If anyone has some interesting titles, please leave them in the comments.
• go back to the gym: no comment
• finish what I start: ok, I’m just terrible at this point. I have so much things I want to do and I have so little time. The result is that I tend to leave stuff in a 80%-90% state and I never manage to finish them.
• pick up the guitar more often: …and play some Megadeth and Dream Theater tunes. I bought myself one of those PodXT amps to play at home and it is very cool. Just connect it to your pc through USB and you’re done. Now turn the volume to 11 and “metal up your ass”.
• decide wheter to learn ASP.NET or not: I just can’t decide…

Have fun celebrating the new year. Don’t drink and drive ! See you in the blogosphere in 2006…

A quick post to let you know that the Flash Remoting presentation files from last thursday at the MMUG Belgium are online. I covered Flash Remoting with AMFPHP and shared some project experiences, tips and tricks and showed a bunch of examples.

You can get the files here. The zip file includes the presentation slides, all the examples, the database dumps and the AMFPHP classes.

Many thanks to MMUG Belgium (Serge and Peter) and MultimediaCollege for the venue.

Macromedia has released an updated version of the Flash Remoting components.

September 20, 2005
This version of the Flash Remoting components supports Flash Professional 8 and Flash Basic 8. It is currently available in English; French, German, and Japanese versions will be available shortly. The English version can also be installed with other language versions of Flash.

The installer available includes:

• Flash Remoting Component
• Support files for Flash 8
• NetConnection Debugger
• HTML content that can be viewed within the Help panel in Flash
• ActionScript 2.0 API class source code

Download page: here
Release notes: here

Direct Windows installer link: here

Through RocketBoots

After 6 years and a lot of intense moments together, Isabelle and I finally got married. We spent the day in the company of our family and friends and had a really good time. Besides the rainy weather later that day, everything went alright. We went to a restaurant in the city, Cyrano de Bergerac, which is now owned by an old friend of mine. And boy can he cook! The evening couldn’t have been beter.

I’m really looking forward to spending the rest of my life together with my wife and son. They are the flames that keep me going. Thank you for everything guys, I love you!

Just in case you missed the news, ServiceCapture is a great tool for debugging Flash Remoting applications.

What is it?

ServiceCapture runs on your pc and captures all HTTP traffic sent from your browser or IDE. It is designed to help Rich Internet Application(RIA) developers in the debugging, analysis, and testing of their applications.

ServiceCapture is the only tool of its kind to deserialize and display all Flash Remoting or AMF traffic in a simple-to-use interface.

ServiceCapture also has a unique bandwidth simulation feature. This allows engineers to throttle their bandwidth to simulate dial-up, dsl, and cable connection speeds, even when your entire application is being served locally.

I’ve been using it over the last week and really enjoy it. I personally replaced it with Charles HTTP debugger. It does not have that many features (yet?) as Charles, but the Remoting support is what I needed the most so…enjoy!