IFBIN 2.0 Begins - IFBIN is OPEN and FREE
Starting today IFBIN 'Flash by Example' and 'Flex by Example' products are open source, open to contribution, free to download, and free for commercial and non-commercial use. These changes are the foundation of IFBIN 2.0.
IFBIN is one of the best projects I have ever worked on. Working with a team of 42 developers we attempted to redefine learning by example as a service. We delivered a solid platform for publishing, created over 500 examples for Flex and Flash, and earned the trust of over 100 customers worldwide. We were poised for success and were gaining momentum when personal legal matters intervened in January 2006. Divorce and a legal custody battle over the company brought development and progress to a grinding halt. After 5 months of legal matters, I recently obtained full control and ownership of IFBIN and intend to rebuild the service from the ground up.
Today we begin a new chapter at IFBIN that starts with embracing the concepts of open and free. These changes are the foundation on which we plan to rebuild the IFBIN service within the development community. This new development will allow us to fulfill our promise to our existing customers and grow the market for Flash and Flex.
What does open and free mean for IFBIN?
1. All code is free to download and use for any purpose.
2. All code is licensed under a BSD License.
3. IFBIN will add support for example publishing within IFBIN 2.0.
4. IFBIN 2.0 will be a free service.
IFBIN 2.0 will be released as an Adobe Apollo desktop application for secure publishing and installation of software examples. Adopting Apollo will provide seamless access to file installation services and cross platform support. The client application will allow anyone to publish and download software examples easily. We will also be adding support for other software and design products within the Adobe product family.
I look forward to working with everyone on IFBIN 2.0. It is my sincere hope that IFBIN 2.0 will return the value promised to our founding customers. I want IFBIN to becoming the leading desktop learning service for Adobe design and development products. More to come...
Regards,
Theodore Patrick
IFBIN Networks Founder and CEO
http://www.ifbin.com
posted by Ted Patrick @ 9:00 AM
12 comments
12 Comments:
When can we expect to see the Apollo Ifbin 2.0 application?
Cheers
Gareth.
Gareth,
When Apollo appears on Adobe Labs, you will see a fully functional IFBIN Client.
Ted :)
Do you have example for TreeTable implementation using Flex 2.0?
Dear people at ifbin,
I am a flash developer using flash 8 professionally in our company . Both my colleague and me, spend 90 % of our time coding flash. We would like to use your ifbn. Sadly our system administrator won't allow to install the connection - which is acutally a server - on a number of machines.
My question is: How can we install the server only once and have multiple access to it?
can anyone help on this?
yours
Jerry
When I go to the IFBIN home page all I see is the message about being open & free and the download link...I actually had to do a Google search to find the news and other sections of your web site. User friendly -?
Hey Ted, does the IFBIN service work with a http proxy? I've installed it and when it launches in my browser I just see
http://localhost:5505/
and a blank screen.
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I have similar difficulties - the company here ties down the systems such that something like IFBIN cannot be installed.
It's a really nice idea, providing open source examples - but why the weird installer for this? The only thing I can thing you can achieve by doing this is to cut out a lot of potential visitors - mostly from corporate environments, I imagine.
Jamie.
I am unable to use ifbin in my corporate network behind a proxy server. I works fine at home where I connect directly to the internet. Do you plan to introduce support for proxies ..
hi
IFBIN works really good for me , but is this project no longer mantained ?
at the section "flash by example" and "new" the latest files are from 2006.
Also i will like to contribute with some files.
Intriguing yet weird site. From the home page, can't find out anything .. only option is to download a SERVICE onto my PC! Umm, I'm NOT going to install some service from someone I don't know, without seeing more details. Managed to find a link elsewhere to this page, so posting this comment. Recommend: Browser-based access that lets people peruse abstracts of the stuff you've got. Then if you really insist on requiring a downloaded service (weird weird weird), at least a potential user has some evidence of why this might be worth doing. I guess I would download the service onto a sandboxed machine then ... But I still think you are WAY off base in your approach here.
guys, this is a great idea but I must add that the website is very strange. Its hard to figure out where to get from there...it really took me a while to get to this page on Google. I suggest that you atleast have pointers on the home page to help direct users to the information.
Besides, installing the service on my machine just opens up a blank page. There are no examples, or any information to suggest otherwise. Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong here (although I suspect that a simple installation couldn't have gone wrong) ;)
Siddharth
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