For the second year running, Wowza Media Server Pro has won the Reader’s Choice awards for Best Server Hardware/Software (with 43% of total votes versus Adobe’s 22% and Microsoft’s 12%) and Wowza Media Server 2 Advanced was the top choice for Best Streaming Innovation of 2009, above Adobe’s and Microsoft’s entries.
YAY!MEDIA provides a range of Wowza application development services and we’re pleased that Wowza remains a popular and powerful platform for streaming and collaborative application development.
For Wowza streaming services, we recommend streamingwizard.com.
Congratulations to the Wowza team!
The Wowza IDE is a great way to start coding Wowza projects. It’s based on Eclipse 3.3 but unfortunately it’s also missing a few core components that most people would be used to or require, an important one being the CVS Repository Exploring perspective that allows you to connect and synchronise projects with a CVS repository. However it’s fairly simple to get it back (once you know how). Here’s a quick guide to getting the CVS Explorer back into your Wowza IDE. These instructions are for OSX but it’s pretty much the same process on Windows:
- Download the CVS client package from the eclipse.org site and unzip it somewhere
- Start the Wowza IDE and select Help > Software updates > Find and install
- Select the option that says ‘Search for new features to install’ and click ‘Next’
- On the next screen select ‘New local site’ from the right hand side
- Navigate to the folder you just unzipped above and select it
Eclipse will then proceed to install the CVS Repository client. Restart Eclipse after the installation and once restarted, go to the Add Perspective button and the CVS option should be there in the list. And that’s it!
The next Midlands Flash Platform User Group meeting is tomorrow, at Warwick University, Ramphal Building room R.0.21. Hopefully it’ll be a good one as I’m helping organise it and we intend to run more over this end of the Midlands in future, possibly in September and November. I’m going to demo some of the apps we’ve built with the marvellous people in the web-dev team at Warwick University during my secondment there, including our AIR Media Converter Client, the Files.Warwick Desktop Client, a nice combination of MySQL, BlazeDS, Lucene, Spring, Flex 3.0 and Cairngorm by Rob O’Toole and maybe if I get time, our media recording applications in Sitebuilder, the University’s CMS.
Our MOO cards arrived today and very swish they are too. This means I can now go to all the cool places and not be the only one without a business card to put in the prize draw bucket.
MOO is a great service as well – the easy upload and design process is one thing I think is well-executed, but most of all I just like the language used on the site and in all its communications, warm and friendly without being patronising. Take ‘Little MOO’ for instance, the bot that confirms your order that freely admits it’s a piece of software, but says it will look after your order while it’s processing:
Hello, I’m Little MOO – the bit of software that will be managing your order
with us. It will shortly be sent to Big MOO, our print machine who will
print it for you in the next few days. I’ll let you know when it’s done
and on its way to you.
and when the order was done:
Hello, it’s Little MOO again. I thought you’d like to know, the following items
from your order are now in the mail…
I don’t know why, I just like that. Maybe that approach is dependent on your company persona to some extent but for me it felt more fuzzy and friendly to get an email like that from what is in fact just an automated system. Positive vibes, positive experience.
