Whilst I was working at Massive I was introduced to the idea of applying finite state-machines to the management of an RIA's application model or state. The idea whilst not new was being used by James Mc Parlane in a project of his called ThumbWhere. James had written a JavaScript based finite state-machine engine to control the application state of his HTML based RIA.
Several years ago, when Adobe was getting ready to release Flex 2.0 they held a developer derby to entice people to play with their new toys. Unfortunately the competition was restricted to US citizens. The kind folks at www.rocketboots.com.au started their own competition for those outside of the US. As luck would have it my entry of a barcode scanner won and I scored myself an ipod nano.
I spent a couple of hours tidying up a batch file I had started for encoding video to Mp4. The output can be used for progressive downloads (Should work for FMS etc. hosted videos as well) in the later versions of Flash player that support H264 and AAC encoded videos.
