dpdk Open Source

We have made a great step for Dutch interactive agencies by releasing some of the source code we work with (flash actionscript 3) to the general public.

The announcement was just made at the newly launched website of the dutch adobe user group and on our website (dutch).

By releasing the source code we aim to give something back to the community that we have learned from, in the form of usable, robust and tested code. We also strive to provide some insight in our kitchen where stuff is cooking.

At the moment, the media agencies in Holland that are into code development are not very transparent, especially so on the level of releasing libraries and frameworks (with some exceptions, but worth mentioning are lostboys with their in house developed asapframework). This is in sharp contrast with the whole opensource community where a lot of the developers themselves are active, and they are working for some of these agencies. This reluctance to share code may be because agencies feel that by giving away their in-house libraries, frameworks and or toolkits they’re losing their key advantage above other agencies.

While this may be true for actual and concrete applications written for clients, it does not have to be true for toolkits, libraries and frameworks. We feel that the knowledge and skills to create something out of noting have their home in our team at dpdk, not necessarily so in code itself. Therefore, we do not want to be overly protective with some of our generic code and routines. The logical next step was to release some opensource material to the world.

We are providing really useful material, such as our collections library with lists and trees, our flash remoting package that definitely rocks, flash media server (multiuser) related matter, knowledge about how we work and what we think are good patterns, designs and additions to good coding in general, stuff for tracking what a user does in your application, knowledge about domain objects and lots of other good things that give you the ability to incorporate it in your workflow, together with lots of other great source code that is out there.

We hope you will appreciate some of our work released here. Create and Enjoy