Monthly Archives: November 2006

Flex Builder – What do the Icons in Variables View mean?

Take a look at a typical Flex Debugging perspective Variables view. There is a lot of images with other symbols on top of them. From red squares, green circles to yellow diamonds with (), C, S etc… icons on top. What do they all mean? Well I am not totally sure myself, but some are [...]

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 didn’t play nice with RedHat ES4

I have been fighting to get ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 on a RedHat ES4 box. I did a typical install straight from the download (coldfusion-702-lin.bin) to the integration with Apache. Everything seemed fine until I started trying to connect with my Flex 2 applications. I received this error messages, which don’t show up any where on [...]

My FMS on RedHat ES4 Installation Experience

Just got a new dedicated box with Redhat ES4 on it. I needed to get Flash Media Server up and running on it and had a little bit of an expereince. Here is my steps with dependencies and quirks when trying to install and then run the server. 1. Downloaded FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz 2. tar -zxvf FlashMediaServer2.tar.gz [...]

Flex 2 Namespacing Methods and Properties Example

I came across the Namespace class while looking up some information about ActionScript 3.0′s E4X and XML. I didn’t know, will lets say, I didn’t make the connection between the Namespace class and using it with methods and properties of components. This example is very basic and is not meant to be a good use [...]

Video Conference with Flex & FMS

Learn how to use Flex 2 and FMS 2 by creating a basic video conference application Video over the Internet and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are the latest craze. With Flex 2 and Flash Media Server 2 (FMS), developers can easily create interactive media Web applications. In this article you’ll create a basic video conference [...]

Adobe and Mozilla, AS3.0 VM now in Tamarin

A news release from Mozilla just released, “Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine“. Adobe has contributed their source code for ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. The project is called Tamarin. The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, [...]

Flex2 and SabreAMF article on Adobe Dev Center

I am excited to announce the release of an article on Adobe’s Dev Center, “Using Flex 2 RemoteObject and SabreAMF”. I would like to thank Amy Wong, Adobe editor, and Evert Pot, developer of SabreAMF, for all the help making this article happen.

Cairngorm Store Example using ColdFusion RemoteObject as backend

I have created another port of the Adobe Flex Cairngorm Store example using ColdFusion RemoteObject on the backend. This example actually is created to show how to switch between different backends. The ColdFusion WebService implementation is not working at this time and I am trying to track down the Cairngorm 2.1 changes that has affect [...]