Aral Balkan

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• 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 Aral on 2007-09-18 11:22:22

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• I remember when all the great video games came out last in the U.S.. It's funny to see Aral holding a two month old iPhone and being so excited :) Sorry guys, Apple apparently some master plan that we are just capable of understanding.

  by Steve James on 2007-09-18 07:51:23

• 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?

  by James Urquhart on 2007-09-18 10:03:31

• 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 Michaël Boué on 2007-09-19 07:19:51

• 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 Neil Ford on 2007-09-19 08:38:16

• 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 Aral on 2007-09-19 11:33:38

• 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 Michaël Boué on 2007-09-19 12:50:16

• :) Nice video, Aral

  by Boris on 2008-06-12 11:59:50

• thanks for best advice :)

  by david on 2008-05-05 12:39:06

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

  by Boston IT Support on 2008-12-08 20:13:22