Monthly Archives: July 2006

AdvancedForm Component

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I have updated the AdvancedForm component. Along with the update I have packaged up the swc, docs, source code, and example code for everyone to download.
You can find it on Adobe's Exchange for Flex area or here.
The documentation is ASDoc styled and powered by Teoti Graphix :: DocumentFX.
Thanks Mike for the documentation.
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我把AdvancedForm成分更新了。更新同时, 我也把swc,文件,代码程序,和代码例子包起来, [...]

Flash will turn the big One Zero (Happy 10th Birthday)

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Flash will officially be 10 years young on Wednesday, August 9, 2006. It just happens that it will be around my own birthday. Now I am a little older than 10 years but time sure does fly by.
Well I decided to provide a link to one of my first Flash creations. It [...]

RemoteObjectAMFO update to latest Cairngorm

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The RemoteObjectAMF0 class and sample code have been updated to reflect the latest Cairngorm package. You can find Cairngorm for Flex2 on the labs.adobe.com site. I will not be packaging Cairngorm with my RemoteObjectAMF0 samples any more.
There are now 2 examples in the RemoteObjectAMF0 package. The first is the updated Cairngorm login [...]

Flex AMFPHP and VO’s (RemoteObjectAMF0 update)

Thanks to the help of some people on the Flex coders list, I have been able to update the RemoteObjectAMF0 class with some examples of how to use AMFPHP and PHP/AS VO's. I got this to work with PHP 5.1.1 and PHP 4.3.11.

Flex default bgcolor is it a color or an image?

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By the docs it's covered by an image, so its a color. Let me explain what I am getting at, I was reading Ted's post on preloaders. If you download the source and run the code from a new project in Flex Builder 2 you get a background flicker. The flicker I [...]

My Adobe Flex Ad Idea

Adobe recently ran some ads Federated Media sites that did not go over well on winning brownie points with Flex coders. You can pick up the post by Ryan here.

The cool thing was Jeff Whatcott of Adobe picked up on the blog and decided to ask the Flex community for ideas. Good job on Adobe's part for that one.

I decided to give it a try, I am a Flex Developer not a marketing guru so don't laugh, please (hehe).

Java in the RIA space, comeback or always there?

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Ryan's article about Java making a comeback was interesting. But it made me think of a key figure in the Java RIA space that has been competing way before Adobe Flex. Its called Nexaweb. A big part of the RIA space is timing. It just now that the internet as a [...]

ColdFusion Query of Queries Order By Case Sensitivity Fun

Have you ever tried using ORDER BY in a query of queries in ColdFusion, well come to find out its case sensitive, and I need it to be case insensitive. Read on for me solution to the problem.

Updates to Car Example (Interface and ASDoc Comments)

The Flex object composition car example I recently created got some updates. I changed CompositionBase into a interface instead inheriting the class (thx Marcus for the heads up on that one). I also went through all the code and

Flex Object Composition Car Example

I read a post called "Getting a bunch of components that work together to know about each other" on "The Joy of Flex" blog by David Coletta and figured I would share how it settled in my brain. First off cohesion and coupling of classes through inheritance or composition are very fluid things. Many modeling of the real world can be described differently through objects depending on your prespective and usage. Composition, David calls it "containment", is a very basic part of Object Oriented development. I will use a Car for my example and try to example David's thoughts as I understood them. Now my take on this might be off but thats the joy of software engineering.