Let me start by providing examples of Flex Framework Frameworks (FFF): Cairngorm, PureMVC (I know, it’s not just Flex), Mate, Swiz. You get the idea. All these frameworks provide ways to deal with Event Handling, Command or Action handling, ease separation of concerns so you can code in MVC, some provide inversion of control, or [...]
Categories: Software Design, flex, technology
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The March 2009 issue Adobe’s NewsFlash is out. This is the monthly newsletter for Flash Platform Developers that used to be called RIA Buzz. I like the new name, as it points out that we’re talking about the entire Flash platform, including AIR, Flex, PDF, server side, Ajax, and more.
Check out the issue and sign [...]
Categories: air, blazeds, flex, technology
The winners of the 1st round of #tweetcoding have been announced. #tweetcoding is a contest where you submit to twitter a bit of AS3 code that does something interesting in 140 characters or less. @gskinner, @adobeted, and @NeoRiley had to comb through 250 interesting entries and decide on the winner. It came down to a [...]
Categories: flex, social web, technology
@gskinner started off a little contest where the object is to create an interesting SWF in 140 characters or less of AS3 code.
I went ahead and wrote a server side script that scans the tweets submitted to this contest and compiles the entries then makes them available here: http://tweetcoding.machine501.com/
There are already some interesting pieces submitted [...]
Categories: flex, python, social web, technology
While running the Los Angeles Flex Users Group I got a lot of questions from people about how BlazeDS could fit into their existing infrastructure.
Typically, they will have an application container, such as JBoss, or maybe just a servlet container, like Tomcat, and a SQL backend. Usually MySQL or PostgresSQL. JSPs are [...]
Categories: Software Design, blazeds, flex, java, technology
Update: The “start”-method-not-getting-called bug is now a filed in the adobe bug tracker: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/BLZ-190
This post is another baby step in getting acegi/spring security and blazeds to work together. The whole purpose of these exercises is to for acegi to handle authentication/authorization and destination security. Even bypassing container security.
In the last part I talked [...]
Categories: blazeds, flex, java, technology
In an earlier post I talked about BlazeDS and Spring Security and gave a high level overview of how to get a BlazeDS destination to be secured with Acegi security instead of BlazeDS’ security. However, I overlooked a simple thing that would make the whole system play nicer with Flex. That is, [...]
This is a component that mimics the text finding functionality in Safari. When you do a search it dims out the text field and highlights the currently found fragment of text. Other fragments in the text are currently set apart by a black rectangle, but I plan to change that. This is kind [...]
Categories: air, flex, technology
I was recently invited to the Microsoft Technology Summit, a two days worth of sessions on MS technologies. My guess for why I was invited is because I run the Los Angeles Flex Users Group. I looked around for criteria for invitees and found a blog post here:
“The event is specifically for [...]
Categories: flex, technology
This is a quick utility class I came up with that will keep track of a set of Validators and change a bindable property to true if all of the validators it tracks are valid and false if any of the validators is invalid.
I wanted this so I could quickly say something like:
<mx:Button label=”OK” enabled=”{compositeValidator.valid}” [...]
Categories: flex