I have finally submitted my Flex2 application into the Adobe Developer Derby contest. It was built with Flex2 Beta3 and is pretty cool, well at least I think so. The Flex Barcode Reader What is the Flex Barcode Reader Component? The Flex Barcode Reader Component is a Flex2 component that can read barcodes through the use of a web cam and the flash player. The current implementation reads UPC/EAN (ie: CDs, Books, *DVDs) barcodes. The lookup...

In Flex 1.5 we would connect to ColdFusion by setting the amfgateway to “/flashservices/gateway”. In Flex2 things changed. With Flex2 and AS3 the remoting gateway and other RPC services implementation changed quite drastically. There is a new AMF format and it is called AMF3, where Flex 1.5 and before all used AMF0. The default gateway for ColdFusion’s remoting gateway is “/flashservices/gateway”, with Flex2 you...

I created a custom RemoteObject that works with AMF0 (the old style of RemoteObject before Flex2′s changes) a couple months ago. The code was created with Flex 2 Beta 2 and Cairngorm 2. Today I updated the code base to work with Beta 3. (It works in Flex 2 release version now.) You can find the example and source code here. Here is my disclaimer on this code: You have to keep in mind this is mimicing RemoteObject component functionality...

I have some 5 year old CRTs and decided to make a jump into the LCD world. The two major factors that have kept me from buying LCD’s have been screen resolution and price. These are related because I have become accustomed to 1600×1200 or higher resolution for the past five years and didn’t think I could go lower. The nice 1600×1200 LCD’s go for nearly $550-$600, but in the last month a ViewSonic 20″...

When looking over the Adobe Developer Derby on the labs site I had noticed some date differences. On April 22, 2006 my search was this: This page says “Submit your application by 11:59 p.m., Pacific Time, May 31, 2006.” http://labs.macromedia.com/showcase/special/flexderby/ This page says “Entries must be received by May 1, 2006.” http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=flexderby_submission I sent an...

Flash Player 8.5 will be move to version 9, mostly likely because of all the major changes it entails. New VM new AS version etc… The other interesting thing is the Flash authoring tool buzz. The next generation Flash authoring tool is code-named “Blaze”. Here is a snippet from the macromedia dev center. However, we will be releasing an alpha version of Blaze in the spring of 2006 that will include ActionScript 3.0 support....