There will always be new platforms and new paradigms to learn. The best we can do is to understand where each one came from, and to embrace the positives and overcome the negatives as quickly as possible so we can ship some awesome features before everything changes again.

thanks for your interest in Onyx-VJ, MidiModule is now written by Stefano,
and Tim has done a great job in the past
1. Onyx-VJ 4.2.1 is enabled for Midi, it needs the java application called
MIDI2 ( on http://www.stefanocottafavi.com/en/downloads/category/3-java )
2. Launch MIDI2, it should be easy to setup, then launch Onyx-VJ

Project Darkstar is a software platform that simplifies the development of horizontally scalable servers for online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. Its revolutionary design will eliminate serious problems like zone overloading, data corruption, and inefficient server utilization, while enabling new dimensions of play such as evolvable virtual worlds and very large scale battlefields.

Here's another add-on for SWFObject. This one allows you to create a full-window flash movie, but when the browser window is set below the specified size, the div containing the flash is kept at the minimum size and horizontal/vertical scrollbars are displayed.

swffit (formerly know as FitFlash) is a smart script that resizes your flash movie automatically if your browser window size is smaller or greater than your flash minimum desired size keeping it accessible independent of screen resolution.

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.

J2ME Development using Eclipse, "From zero to mobile in minutes"