« FOXTEL Remote Record»
- Published on › 02.01.07 | Filed under › Work
This has to be one of the most structured Flash project I have ever delivered. Basically it’s a online TV Guide for FOXTEL - ho hum. But more than just that you can record programmes using the intermanet to your home set top box. I was the solo Flash Developer on this project and I think I used up every Design Pattern I know of - geek. I will post up the class path shortly. Bradman did some excellent work on the designs and kept me inline so it was pixel perfection. Anyway this project drained a good 2 1/2 months out of my life, the techy backend was done by the guys at Oakton.
The data communication is all done by SOAP (and not Soap where I work 
) and 1 down side was the requirement to send all the data by HTTPS which means the data is bloated due to encryption. In any case they (Oakton) did a good job at these dynamic XML queries coming back as fast as they do. For later releases I hope we can take advantage of at least Gzip to bring down the size of these XML packets that will be phase 1.1 as they say. As well hopefully some cool shit like video previews …. Anyway there has been alot of positive PR which is good.
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