So today I see that Microsoft has a new Technology preview for a web application called “Photosynth”. Being a curious person I go to the site to check it out. First of all it doesn’t work on the mac or firefox. Not to be deterred I opened Parallels and went to the site in IE. When I get to the site I get an error saying my video card doesn’t support the website and the dialog asks me if i want to educate them on what went wrong (wouldn’t even know where to start). Anyway, I chose to click on “Nevermind” and then received the following message from the website “Nothing to see here; move along”, so I did but not before a good laugh. Although I probably shouldn’t be laughing I’m sure I have a few of these lurking out there as well.
As I’m getting into flex2 more I decided to upgrade my multimedia classes to ActionScript3. I use VitalStream for streaming media Not far into it I received the following error:
Error #2126: NetConnection object must be connected.
This would happen whenever I tried to connect to the VitalStream Server.
After digging a little I saw that it was an object encoding error.
After pulling out some hair I started looking around on LiveDocs I found the following:
Connecting exclusively to a server that was released prior to Flash Player 9, such as Flex 1.5 and FlashMedia Server 2. In this scenario, set the static defaultObjectEncoding property to ObjectEncoding.AMF0.
var netConnect:NetConnection;
netConnect = new NetConnection();
netConnect.objectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0;
Setting the encoding correctly upfront will fix your problems and save you some hair.
Thats it for now.
-s
I’m not a designer but in my first attempt to give back I’ve cleaned up the Flex Builder Beta OS X icon.
Download the ICNS Icon File & PSD (If you make it better please send my way)
Hey this giving thing feels pretty good.
-s
fyi
You can not just copy and paste the icon via the “Get Info” on the Flex Builder.app. You need to “Show package contents” and replace the icon in Contents/Resources as well. I know… I know… seems like a lot of fuss, but man is it worth it!… 
*chuckle*
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My name is Steven Gemmen (AKA Steve Gemmen for the search engines) and i’ve been developing for the last 10 years or so. Enjoy.
