Flex Framework Source Code

I just learned about some ways to get at the Flex Framework source code (mostly with 1.5). The code is not there to be reused but you can learn from it to help extend the framework classes. Here are the links I found: Find the source files in your mx_debug.swc Viewing the source while debuging I am seeing chatter about Flex 2 framework source code, they say it will be available upon release of Flex2. Read the FlexCoders Posts...

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Flash Media Server on Fedora Core 2

I tried getting a Flash Media Server installed on a Fedora Core 2 box. I spent hours figuring out why after running the start script nothing would happen. It wasn’t until I tried running “./fmsmaster” by it self that I got an error back. ./fmsmaster: error while loading shared libraries: libnspr4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Then it took me some google searching to find that the libnspr4.so...

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The “Dynamic What Not”

There should be a term coined the “Dynamic What Not”. It would be whatever you want when you need it. It will also change its definition as you change you requirements. Logically it will work, but semantically it would change with the wind.

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Flex2 and AMFPHP 1.2 (revisited)

My first post here started the basis for simple Flex2 and AMFPHP. You can download some code here. This code uses a actionscript connection class and Flex2 Beta 1 Flex Framework (so things still can change).

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Flash and AJAX unite

Here is an article talking about Adobe’s development of Flex-AJAX bridge frameworks.Adobe Bridges Flash, Flex with AJAX FABridge This is a great move by Adobe.

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CakePHP DB_ACL install

In trying to install the new CakePHP DB_ACL functionality I ran across some issues with my php CLI setup. I was following the link here CakePHP ACL. My setup was created by the “xampp-win32-1.5.1-installer.exe” installer. Basically a light version of Apache 2.2.0, PHP 5.1.1, windows XP installer. I fired up the command prompt to run the command line code as outline in the CakePHP ACL instructions and came across some errors. First...

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