Only a day after the release of BlazeDS, Nicolas Cannasse (Motion-Twin) has just released haxeVideo:

haxeVideo is an opensource video streaming server entirely written in haXe
Features include :

* FLV streaming using RTMP protocol
* Webcam and Microphone recording to FLV file
* Live streaming for web conferencing
* light and fast scalable server
* only 50 KB of server source code : modify whatever you need !

Finally the multiuser/conferencing thing is taking place?
We will ever see affordable (T)RTMP hosting services?

PS: This can be the right answer to those interested in a web-radio solution

This week were released:
AMF3 specification

Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to
ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized an AMF encoded object graph
to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or
endpoints to communicate through the exchange of strongly typed data.

And Java-Remoting BlazeDS Beta

BlazeDS is the server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR applications for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.

Previously available only as part of Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES, Adobe is announcing its plans to contribute the proven BlazeDS technologies to the community under the LGPL v3. BlazeDS gives the rapidly growing Adobe developer community free access to the powerful remoting and messaging technologies developed by Adobe.

The source code will be available for download in early 2008.

In short: more AMF servers for free, other than RED5

I’ve not blogged too much lately, however, there was some strange “activities” on my blog…

Today someone in a comment warned me that I have some spam links in the footer visible only with javascripts disabled.

I’ve updated wordpress some days ago because I’ve noticed some spam links in my sidebar, but as it seems this wasn’t enough to fix the problem.

Luckily, I’m using subversion to manage wordpress updates, in this way I can see what happened to my wordpress:

? wp-includes/class-mail.php
M 6377 wp-includes/default-filters.php
M 6377 wp-includes/wp-db.php
M 6377 wp-includes/gettext.php
M 6377 wp-includes/pluggable.php
M 6377 xmlrpc.php
M 6377 index.php
M 6377 wp-admin/admin.php
M 6377 wp-admin/index.php


There was a new file class-mail.php and the others were modified.
Luckily nothing that a few svn revert commands couldn’t heal

If you want to check if you blog has the same “guest” links:

1. disable javascripts
2. look at your footer.

If so:

1. replace those files marked with M
2. delete class-mail.php

More info on this exploit: Phentermine attack
This episode is the proof of how useful is to install/update wordpress with subversion: Install wordpress with subversion