I have updated the Cairngorm Store multiple backend example. Along with the updated source code I have deploy a live running example. The 4 backends it supports now is ColdFusion Remoting AMF3, AMFPHP AMF0 using the RemoteObjectAMF0 class, AMFPHP 1.9 AMF3, and ColdFusion WebServices. See it live here! Get the source here! To change the backend of the Cairngorm Store example just select the backend you want from ComboBox and then click on the...

The big news of the day is the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta release on http://labs.adobe.com. There was also two other updates on labs that are still quite important for Adobe’s engagement platform. Spry is up to prerelease 1.4 and a new addition of JSEclipse. JSEclipse is a new plugin for the Eclipse environment that helps developers code JavaScript faster and with no errors. With JSEclipse, you can complete a variety of tasks, from...

I have created a very basic Flex 2 RolloverImage component that allows you to define the up, over, and down images through CSS. Here is the guts of how to use the class: <mx:Style>   .firstRollover {     upSkin: Embed(source="/assets/arrowGreenUp.png");     overSkin: Embed(source="/assets/arrowBlueUp.png");     downSkin: Embed(source="/assets/arrowBlueDown.png");  ...

Note: Just found about about the Flickr deal, it got moved to http://api.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml I must have missed Flickr shutting down their crossdomain.xml, here is a post by Chris Shiflett. I found the issue when looking at some old Flex Flickr mashup I wrote a while back and realized it was coming back with a security error. Then I noticed the http://flickr.com/crossdomain.xml is gone. Just recently youtube.com changed their...

Patrick Mineault has created an alpha update of AMFPHP that now supports AMF3. He is looking for people to test it out. To help with this I have created two simple examples that I have running live on a PHP4/Apache server, as well as have tested on a PHP5/Windows box. Basic Example Return Array of VO’s Example You can download the source for both examples by right clicking on the apps or get it here. Note: To make the amfphp 1.9 alpha...

UPDATE: see comments, the skin class works with any UIComponent and checks for many exceptions of different backgroundImage style values. Note backgroundImage values of embedded images only work, embedded SWF’s with symbol names throws an error. I created a RepeatingImage component last month that works nicely for applying repeating images any where in your Flex application. But most repeating image usages are typical implemented as...