My good friend Scott Fallin has enlightened me a little on how to super charge AJAX: The rich internet experience brought to you by AJAX pales as I bring COMET to bear on each RIA issue that arises. My components are blindingly white! I liberally shake my technology onto the porcelain of my tub and do a little soft shoe, scrubbing as I shower. But I won’t rest until I bring the pulling power of 20-Mule Team BORAX to the issue of...

Yahoo just announced they will be given away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail. The Yahoo team has already done a good job at creating a nice Flex API for their Yahoo Maps (made for Flex 1.5). Will we see an internal or external Flex 2 API for Yahoo Mail. I saw a Flex 1.5 mail sample application on IFBIN a while back (I think last year). I also read posts today where people are using sockets in Flex/AS3 to connect to SVN directly or MySQL...

I went ahead and downloaded the newly created AutoComplete Input component from Adobe.com Flex exchange. This component will be one of many to come from the Adobe’s Flex Team. There are a couple included examples which where very easy to follow. In my example I’ll show how to use the AutoComplete Input component to search and filter the data in a DataGrid. The combination of the AutoComplete Input component and the DataGrid...

I have not been following who is providing the latest ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 hosting, but its important if you are trying to use Flex 2′s RPC services. I picked up a google news alert that says “CrystalTech Offering ColdFusion MX 7 Web Hosting With Adobe Flex 2″.  You can find the news article at http://www.tophosts.com/articles/003859.html The real question is will people understand Flex 2 hosting.  It is Flex Data Services...

There is true power in creating and extending Flex components.  As Flex progresses we’ll see more and more components.  The interesting thing is a lot of components are created for a specific need a developer has.  The slightly smaller set of components being made are ones that allow developers to create new components and applications more easily. Creating components takes alot of engery and time, I know I have created a few...

There is a create Presentation on “Flex Performance & Tips” by David George at the link below. http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p71169528/ The main areas of performance consideration for your Flex applications are Object creation, Measurement/layout and Rendering.  I found the object creation section to be the most helpful for my past experience but the whole presentation is worth viewing and reviewing for any heavy Flex...