Monthly Archives: October 2006

RemoteObjectAMF0 Update

I have updated RemoteObjectAMF0 to work properly with mx.rpc.IResponder implementation. I have also properly packaged it up as a component, including SWC, docs, example and source files.
You can find the updated code at http://renaun.com/blog/flex-components/remoteobjectamf0/.
There is a live demo example of the updated code running Cairngorm Store (Cairngorm 2.1 updated), AMFPHP and RemoteObjectAMF0.

Cairngorm Store Example Updated to Cairngorm 2.1

I went ahead and updated the Cairngorm Store example to Cairngorm 2.1. You can find the original example code download on http://www.cairngormdocs.org/.
Get the updated code here.
Here is my short list of changes:

Changed com.adobe.cairngorm.business.Responder to mx.rpc.IResponder
Changed com.adobe.cairngorm.commands.Command to com.adobe.cairngorm.commands.ICommand
Changed com.adobe.cairngorm.vo.ValueObject to com.adobe.cairngorm.vo.IValueObject
Deleted result and fault handlers on RemoteObjects components in the Services.mxml file.
Used Call.addResponder( responder [...]

Bunchball Job Description Mentions Apollo

With Adobe announcing $100,000,000 dollars of venture capital funding for Apollo projects it will be interesting to follow who might be getting the money. Although Bunchball funding has been in the works before the announcement a quick trip over to their Jobs posting comes up with “desktop (Apollo)” in the job description for [...]

Is “Digital Editions Add-In” the Apollo framework?

Adobe Digital Editions is a new downloadable application on http://labs.adobe.com. But it requires you to download an Add-In to make it work. Here is the text straight from the FAQ:

Why do I need to install the Adobe Digital Editions Add-In?
In order to use Adobe Digital Editions you must install [...]

Video Conference with Flex & FMS, Live Demo and Source Code

I wrote an article called “Video Conference with Flex & FMS” for the latest issue of Web Developer’s & Designer’s Journal (Volume 4 Issue 10). This article was available in the printed version of the WDDJ during MAX at the ColdFusion Developer’s Journal booth. I am not sure when the article will be [...]

Apollo Every Day

Well, this has been a very interesting week, I have seen Apollo ever day this week.
Friday night we had the privilege to keep Adobe Evanglist Richard Galvan in Vegas and present at the local Adobe Dreamweaver User Group. He started off by talking about Apollo, showing a clock, panel transparency, and the Mike Chambers [...]

Flex Profiler Sneak Peak

In the “End-to-End Dubugging Flex” session we got the chance to preview a Flex profiler (it’s not definite that we will ever see it but is known that developers want it).
With the Flex 2.1 update they fix it so you can breakpoint Flex Framework source file. You can actually do this now with no [...]

Just Received My Copy of ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook

I received my copy of O’Reilly’s ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook, by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith Peters.
It covers all the basics of the language as well as touch on some of the more advanced features of AS3. Looking over the Bitmap filter section shows some hidden gems that I think will find there way [...]

MAX Sneak Peaks

Here at MAX’s thursday keynote we get the peak into possible furture features/products.
First was a Yahoo IM plugin connecting to Adobe Connect. Part of the demo was PDF files integrated into Connect also with SyncSDK contorls of viewing the PDF’s.
Next, Tim Bruntel with the ColdFusion team demonstrated the new Scorpio features through an elebrate [...]

Improving Actionscript 3 Performance

Ted Patrick is giving the session on improving AS3 performance. The one thing he is making sure we take with us from this MAX session is that strong typing optimizes bytecode.
Ted showed examples of strong typed versus weak typed code, the measurements showed at least 3 times faster execution speed.