I’m taking a moment to highlight the Visual Media Center at the University of Denver and the relatively new weblog maintained by its Director, Leslie Trumble.
The VMC works very closely with those of us on the DU VAGA development team and most of the feedback we receive about the application originates with users from this area. This week, Leslie writes about two pretty large additions to the application environment; the inclusion of PicLens on digital object search results, and a standalone application that I’ve been heavily involved in this summer called the DU VAGA Projection System.
What may be of interest to most of my readers is that the DU VAGA Projection System [VPS] is written using Flex and ActionScript 3 for deployment via Adobe AIR. Though it is not the first application from the university built for the AIR runtime (see the Fridlyand Kiosk software), it is certainly the most complex.
The software takes advantage of a few AIR-specific capabilities including the ability to integrate with the operating system in terms of hardware discovery (and the flexibility to adapt to various configurations), the power to read and write files to a local hard drive, and extensive use of windowing technology. This application also makes heavy use of Coldfusion 8 and Flash Media Server 3.
I may be writing more on this software and other efforts at the university in the near future. In fact, many of my recent posts were born directly from work on this specific project.
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Thanks, Joseph!