The now so often quoted “first half of 2006″ is growing closer to the end. What does this refer too, well Flex2 of course. If you have been in a hole for last 6-8 months you might not know about this (or if you don’t like Flex2, but that isn’t anybody reading this). It should be a very interesting week. Whats your guess on when it will come out? Tuesday the 27th? wikipedia says! 1893 – Crash of the New York...

If you have not tried already, it is possible to have CFEclipse installed into the standalone version of Flex Builder 2. Instructions for CFEclipse located here. Start by installing the latest standalone Flex Builder 2, which is based on Eclipse 3.1.2 as of now. Continue by firing up Flex Builder 2 and follow the instructions in the CFEclipse link above or read the quote below. Installing the Stable Build The best way to get CFEclipse is to use...

I have had my 2 new Viewsonic VX2025wm monitors working nicely with my eVGA 7600GT video card. The 2 monitors where hocked up through the DVI connection, but little did I know about DVI connections and the problems with devices. It happened after I played some games over at my cousin’s house. While there I had to hook up my computer to an old samsung CRT. I had to go into Windows VGA mode that night to get that working. When I came...

The MenuBar and Menu components of the Flex2 framework are nice tools in creating standard business applications. As you look through the examples located in the documentation you might find some issues with the <menuitem/> model attributes. You can define the menuitem’s nodes with the ability to show a check mark or radio dot next to the menuitems. This is done through the attribute “type”. If you click on these...

I am posting about this old issue because of the number of times I have to fix this problem. Windows Server 2003 does not have a mime-type for the extension “.flv”. This causes a lot of headaches when you believe your Flash video application should work but doesn’t. There is a Adobe tech note located here. In the Adobe tech note it tells you to use “flv-application/octet-stream”. This will work but if for some...

(updated 2006.06.16 thanks to Mark) I just finally put all the recent codenames together. I have known of Zorn since Flex Builder 2 was first talked about. But I did not know that Flash Player 9 (and previously 8.5 betas) is called Zaphod. And the next version of Flex (Flex 2) is called Mistral. So we have: Zorn – Flex Builder 2 Mistral – Flex 2 Zaphod – Flash Player 9 Blaze – Flash 9 Check out what the wikipedia...