Update on iLite

Can you believe another week has come to an end. It seems as if this year is flying past. The good thing about it is that we are busy and have lots of projects keeping us on the go.

It seems as if putting a blog together for iLite has been a success. We are starting to get a couple of visitors who seem to be interested in our little endeavored.

We have several little projects that are keeping us busy as well as our everyday routines that have to be maintained. Currently we are developing a new site for our F1-2008 mobile application. Yes, its really exciting, we have got the f1mobile.co.za domain and are working on a kick ass site that will demonstrate the F1 mobile applications that we build.

Our developers are in the building stages of a Flash Game for the mobile phone, and are in the planning stages of a 3D Flash Game as well as getting a couple of new releases of some mobile applications.

So we are having a busy couple of weeks, so this long weekend coming up is going to be put to good use. We get to knuckle down and get some work done.

The only headache that we have had recently is our Vodafone modem deciding to give us problems. One minute it is working and the next minute its down. It took us two days to get a new modem out of Vodacom, but lets just say, I am glad to be back on line.

Of course, Murphy’s Law, when you are down, you need to be online and working. So yesterday was very frustrating for me. I wasn’t on line and I needed to be. So on the hour I check my mail by connecting to the internet using my cellphone… not the most economical means of doing business. But when you have to work and keep your clients happy, you have to make a plan. But we have our little white monster back, and its working fantastically at the moment. So hold thumbs that it doesn’t decide to take a vacation anytime soon.

-Kirsten

Flash Lite 3 Bug

Yesterday we sold four mobile applications to users around the world (Denmark, Mexico, UK and Germany). that was the good part. The bad part was that these were the first users to buy our software with Flash Lite 3 pre-installed on their phones.

So now you would think that because our software is built for Flash Lite 1.1 you would think that Flash Lite 3 would play it. Right, that is what we thought too. But of course…. this is not the case. Flash Lite 3 has new security issues that decided to cause us a major headache.

The problem was this, our software requires network access for authentication Flash Lite 3 prevented the software from creating the connection. Without the connection the user can’t authenticate. If they can’t authenticate they can’t get access to the content in the application.

Long story short there are two possible solutions to the problem

1. Have the user create a Trusted folder in C:\Data\Others, and then load the application into this folder. This will play any Flash Lite 1.1 content.
2. Recompile the Flash Lite 1 application and change the Local playback security when publishing to Access network only. By default it is set to Access local files only.

For good measure we added in a crossdomain.xml file

So there you have it. If you have been plagued by this bug and still not sure how to solve this issue, please feel free to contact me.

-Kirsten

New Version of F1-2008 Available…

I hope you all enjoyed your break… All this break did for us, was show us just how much work there really is.

I was hoping to spend a relaxing long weekend on the beach with Sean, but as you can well imagine it didn’t work out that way. My brother-in-law came to visit for the week and it was one of the busiest times for our little company. We were hoping to spend some time with him and take him around Durban.We thought, it’s easter and things will be quiet and we will have the whole week after easter to spend with Terry and ease back into a busy schedule. Yip, that’s right, plan something and things don’t work out the way you plan.

So far, we have sold more F1-2008 applications than last year and it has only been two weeks since the first Grand Prix. We have decided to release a second version that contains race results as well as championship standings for both the drivers and the constructors. Initially we decided not to include these two features in the application due to the lack of RSS feeds available, and after careful consideration we decided the best thing to do is put the feature back in the application.

There has also been a chance that we needed to develop a Flash game for a company, but were never too sure when they would like to begin and they had no clear idea where they wanted to go with the game. It seems that now they know and we need to start planning our resources around this.

So it is very exciting times here at iLite and lets just hope that things go according to plan.

-Kirsten