…at least sometimes. Today was one of THOSE days…
1. While I was talking via Skype with someone I work with pretty closely on a cool CF/Flex project, we started to get connection drops and finally my laptop was getting slower and slower and Windows totally froze.
Well, it’s Windows after all – but that shouldn’t happen, [...]

David Harris has done a great job convincing Ray Camden to spend his night giving a live presentation to the CFUG Auckland (via Adobe Connect) on how to use Spry together with ColdFusion.
Date and time: 01/03/2007, 5:45 pm NZ DST @ Straker HQ in Auckland (Straker Interactive Ltd, Suite 5B Cathedral House, 48-52 Wyndham Street, [...]

Just in case there are some more Flex developers out there who haven’t spent the last 5+ yrs coding Flash apps … To get a fill transparency of your Flex app sitting in an HTML page, backgroundAlpha is not enough.
You also need to set the wmode attribute of the object/embed tag you’re using to [...]

In one of my current Flex projects we need to capture formatted user input that has to be displayed in the Flex application. Well, as you might know the Flash Player is somewhat limited in its HTML capabilities, so it turned out to be some sort of an interesting situation to find a rich text [...]

Earlier today I was having a chat with Toby about how to install Flex Data Services on (officially not supported) Mac OSX. Well – with not owning a Mac myself but knowing that CF runs fine on top of JRun on Mac OSX – I immediately thought of a similar solution: Why not grabbing an [...]

Mike Downey presented Apollo at the DEMO 2007 conference. Here’s a video recording: http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2007/91259.php. Very interesting to watch.

I’ve just came across a recent blog post of Bruce Eckel (he is the guy who wrote the famous Java book “Thinking in Java”) on Rich Client Technologies.
It is a very good read – not just because he says good things about Flex. It’s a very good read in particular because he is totally right [...]