Archive: February 2007

11 posts

I hate computers

by kai on 20/02/2007

...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, right? Rebooting showed an interesting behaviour - it tooookkk aaaaagees…

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The Jedi is coming...

by kai on 15/02/2007

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, Auckland, New Zealand)

Other interested CF folks in NZ could either tune in via Connect or watch the recording later on...

Flex transparency in HTML pages

by kai on 15/02/2007

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 place the swf on your page. Don't forget to do that also in any JS code you might use to embed the…

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Flex 2 Rich Text Editors (grrr...)

by kai on 13/02/2007

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 HTML editor that could be stripped down to create "evil" Flash-compatibel HTML formatting - usually it's…

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Flex Data Services on OSX

by kai on 12/02/2007

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 .ear or .war file containing FDS that was created on Windows or somewhere else and deploying it on the Mac OSX…

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Mike Downey @ DEMO 2007

by kai on 08/02/2007

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.

Bruce Eckel on Flex

by kai on 07/02/2007

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 in his points: Neither Java nor AJAX can really provide that type of easy-to-install and easy-to-manage Rich…

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Ramping up my dev environment

by kai on 05/02/2007

I really rather not touch my development environment unless it's really necessary. Yesterday it was necessary: the CFEclipse team has released CFEclipse 1.3 final (which I really, really, really recommend to each single CF developer - I can't imagine going back to Homesite or even Dreamweaver), Adobe has released Flex Builder 2.0.1 earlier this year (and one of my customers needed to have some…

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new phone: Nokia n93

by kai on 02/02/2007

I've got myself a new mobile the other week: it had to be the Nokia n93. It's an awesome multimedia machine with a 3.2 MP camera, 3 x optical zoom, video close to DVD quality and WLAN. It runs s60 3rd edition and I really love it ;) Pretty awesome is also that Nokia finally got the Outlook/Exchange sync right and it syncs way better than all the Nokia phones I used to have (6630, 8210, 6310i,…

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Flex talk at Java User Group Wellington

by kai on 02/02/2007

I will give a presentation about Flex 2 at the Feburary 2007 meeting of the Java User Group in Wellington. The meeting details are: February 21st 2007, 5pm for a 5:15pm start - 6:30pm Location: Foundation for Research Science and Technology, 15-17 Murphy Street, Wellington - Meeting room, 11th Floor. The building is the AT&T tower in Thorndon. Title: Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and…

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