I’ve been trying to figure out how to use Acegi security with BlazeDS, hopefully working it in with Spring MVC and this is what I ended up with. If anyone has other suggestions please let me know. This is a topic that really needs discussing.
The way you secure a destination in BlazeDS is [...]
Categories: blazeds, flex, technology
Just a quick note on SQLite in AIR and slow writes: using transactions will speed up multiple inserts/updates.
haven’t had a chance to do any performance tuning or testing when using SQLite in AIR. But just today I finished writing some tests for writing some stuff into a SQL db and noticed that the writes were [...]
With the recent news about Google possibly using Adobe’s Search SDK to index text in swfs I thought I’d post a quick howto for downloading the sdk and testing out your swfs to see what they look like to the link extractor.
First, download the SDK:
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/
Scroll down to where it says “SEARCH ENGINE SDK”
Click on “Begin [...]
Categories: flex
A new site dedicated to everything RIA by O’Reilly, with posts from people like Rich Tretola of EverythingFlex.com, Andre Charland from Nitobi, Andre Trice from Cynergy Systems, and many others.
http://www.insideria.com/
There’s already some good leads there like a post about Google possibly using Adobe’s Search SDK to index swfs.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2008/01/google_swf_sdk.cfm
Categories: flex, technology
Someone in our chat pointed me to this great article by Yakov Fain, of Farata Systems. This is a must read for anyone evaluating Flex, either as a developer or as a product manager. Here is the article in summary:
1. Flex 2 is not a RAD tool
2. The pool of Flex developers is [...]
Categories: Software Design, flex, technology
Hey everyone, Tom and I are demoing our SearchCoders/Dashboard app at max. We are one of five winners of the Adobe AIR derby and so we have a booth in the community pavillion where we’re showing the app. There are other derby winners, like Ed Finkler, demoing their apps here too. So, come [...]
Categories: air, announcements, flex
I’ve put a little chat widget for chatting about python on my blog sidebar.
I use IRC to chat with other programmers and I’m used to showing my code using a pastebin. But when Tom and I started writing this flash chat widget I decided to come up with something that would let me paste code [...]
Categories: announcements, flex, python, technology
When you tried to open an AS file in FB did you suddenly get this message?
An error has occurred. See error log for more details.
Or maybe this message when you tried to open an MXML file:
Unable to create this part due to an internal error. Reason for the failure: The editor class could not [...]
Categories: flex
Not just eye-candy, but useful too.
Saffron is an AIR-based UML app that looks phenomenal.
Check it out.
You’ll also find a good-looking showcase of Flex/AIR apps over at scalenine. I’m amazed at the creativity and concern for the user shown in Flex and AIR apps.
Design is important, just look at the iPod [i don't have an [...]
Categories: Software Design, air, apollo, flex, technology
Hey everybody,
the next Los Angeles Flex Users Group is all about using Flash CS3 and Flex. Check out the announcement on the laflex site for more info:
Flash meet Flex: Los Angeles Flex Users Group Meeting: June 12th, 7-9
Hope to see you there.
Categories: Los Angeles, announcements, flex