Developing Flash Apps to Run 24/7

Matt Pollitt & Juan Delgado

Tips and tricks to develop Flash/AIR applications that are meant to run 24/7, most of the times unattended and facing the public. Fail and recover gracefully, error logging, automated updates, avoid memory leaks, remote access, crash forensics…

This session will involve AS3, AIR 2 (including the new NativeProcess API and monitor the file system for changes), building little “helper” utilities in haXe + Neko, setting up cron jobs (with SSH!) and let the world know via Twitter.

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One Response to “Developing Flash Apps to Run 24/7”

  1. [...] The studio I work at has some seriously brilliant developers working in areas such as C+ and Android and Flash etc, and a couple of the Actionscript developers decided to make a Flash/AIR application which runs 24/7 on a flat screen television in a display case outside our studio. This application is designed to draw in images and video content from a public folder on our server and display the media on the screen at all times as a kind of up-to-the-minute media display. The work was very well received and one of our guys even gave a talk for the London Flash Platform User Group! [...]

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