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Just as a comment for begginers

when you test a movie from Flash IDE wich connects to AMFPHP or with Red5 (RTMP)  it can connect to that server even if its an external server and send receive data because it is not using http wich is restricted by the flash sandbox (unless you change the publish settings to "network access") .

But if you open directly that same swf from your desktop it will prompt you to change your flash security settings because the movie is attempting to send/receive data from an external server .

I have been always a big fan of linux and shell commands,
so i created a red5 app wich works similar to the linux command "tail" this command is commonly used to continuously watch a log file in the linux system for changes in it .

Using red5 i was able to extend the functionality of "tail" to watch changes in any file in linux/Windows server and use "flash player" for the viewer wthout the need of opening a ssh client or root access to watch log files , look my smile

Here is a video demo of my app listening for changes in apache access_log and error_log:
red5+flash live log viewer

By the way its for sale if any one is interested

This is a video i made to show the steps to install the red5admin app created by Gallo_teo:
red5admin install

Note: the sound is very bad because i didnt know the mic was on , so just turn sound off.

this is the link for the red5Admin app : red5Admin

Well this is just a sample of what it can be done using pure Open Source projects:
video streaming hancock
it took me just some minutes to find out how to use the flowplayer with my local red5 server.

Today adobe officialy launched the version 10 of the flash player so i think it will be no longer to anounce the CS4 suite.

to download or updgrade your flash player you can go to : flash player 10

i found an interesting article about using openCV library from intel to detect faces in pictures , what it comes to my attention is that the implementation is php based so it could have a lot of practical uses .
I will have to experiment with this to see what are the possibilities but i can think at least in 4 ways to use this for a very cool web user experience.

I hope to find some time to test it , and will get back with news .

the link to the article : Face detection with PHP

i dont have anything against snap.com , just dont like that javascript pop that jumps out when i do a mouse rollover in a blog link.
i dont think is a good idea to have a pop to block the text you are reading just because accidentaly you placed your mouse over a link , its so confusing , just dont use it please .

Estaba leyendo noticias de flash en blogs y me he topado con 10 o 15 noticias diarias acerca de conferencias como FOTB (flash on the beach) y otras pero ultimamente mas de FOTB y me pregunto si algun dia tendremos conferencias/talleres de verdaderos expertos como ellos en Mexico.
Si alguien sabe de conferencias como estas sobre todo en Jalisco espero que dejen un comentario sobre fechas y lugares.

PD: ojala existiera una comunidad flash mexicana (por lo menos yo no conozco ninguna)

I use to create my own trace function when working with actionscript i do it declaring a function called "tracer" using prototype, the advantage of using this custom trace function is that you can scan an objects properties or maybe use a custom output format , this is just a basic example of it :

MovieClip.prototype.tracer = function(message,object){
var movie = this._url + "-->"
trace(movie+message)
if(object != undefined){
trace(movie+"scanning object")
for(var p in object){
trace(movie+p+" :: "+object[p])
}
}
}

Adter declaring this you should be able to call it almost anywhere in your movie like this:

tracer("hello",{a:"propertyA",b:"propertyB"})

I use this function with cygwin to create custom output , you can see my post about using cygwin to watch flash log :flash trace in IE , Firefox, Safari and Opera (watch flash traces)

Maybe not very common but usefull post with instructions on how to get the difference in days between two dates : dreaminginflash.com