Comments on: Boston, a new camera, iPhone, and SWX Ruby

By: Boston IT Support

Boston IT Support — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:13:22 +0000

yea i was checking out that program recently to and it seems to work well and i love the iPhone

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:59:50 +0000

:) Nice video, Aral

By: david

david — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:39:06 +0000

thanks for best advice :)

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By: Michaël Boué

Michaël Boué — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:50:16 +0000

I know you don’t have to change the ActionScript, only the gateway, but if you change the gateway you should recompile the project (unless you save the gateway in for instance a XML-file).
Therefore it would be easy to use one gateway, which is the same for all server sided languages. In that way you can hardcode the gateway, but it could run on any of the supported server side languages, automatically.

By: Aral

Aral — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:33:38 +0000

Hi Michaël,

You don’t have to change any ActionScript when switching between SWX RPC implementations in different languages (that’s the whole idea) :) All you need to change is the URL to the gateway. The ActionScript code stays the same otherwise.

Neil: I can’t find a place to change the time manually. I heard last night that it gets the correct time from the network and I haven’t hacked it yet to use my t-mobile sim. Will look into it in the next few days!

By: Neil Ford

Neil Ford — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:38:16 +0000

Gratz on the new camera, even if it is a Canon! :)

You need to set the date on it though, all your flickr shots are showing as having been taken in January 2006.

As for the iPhone, the next time I see you…..

Have a great trip.

- Neil.

By: Michaël Boué

Michaël Boué — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:19:51 +0000

Hi Aral,

Maybe now is the time to create one single SWX-gateway, which automatically redirects the requests to the right (i.e. the default server) language. Perhaps with an option that you can tell SWX which language to use.

I think this might be handy, because when you’re creating a project with SWX, and you have to transfer it to an other server, with another server side language, you only have to adapt the service-class, and not your ActionScript, thus no recompiling.

Just my thought.

Anyway, enjoy your iPhone! And have a great time at FlashForward!

By: Aral

Aral — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:22:22 +0000

Hi Steve,

Yeah, t’was the same with movies, etc. Alas, Apple being a US company, it’s to be expected. If anything, Apple understands it’s core (US) audience well and satisfies its needs. Not always so with the International market but, hey, we can drool :) (I got the Apple TV when it first launched in the UK and it was a very expensive and fancy doorstop until very recently when I plugged it back in after TV shows and YouTube *finally* became available on it after months!)

@James: Yep, it’s really exciting to see (and even better that I didn’t have to write a single line of Ruby code — you rock, Jed!) :) There’s interest from multiple people in creating .Net and J2EE versions and I’m going to be making the coordination of these efforts one of my main priorities.

Regarding Flash on the iPhone: I’ve heard rumours, that’s all at this point. I just can’t believe I didn’t order one sooner just to play with the amazing interface. Oh well!

By: James Urquhart

James Urquhart — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:03:31 +0000

SWX for Ruby sounds like a great step forward for increasing the adoption of SWX. I can’t wait for SWX implementations in other web programming languages. :D

Interesting that you should get an iPhone. Is there any impending Flash support for it yet?