This question comes from a *nix sysadmin (and all-around good guy):
“Jim, do you have a way to make flex handle a richer set of HTTP status codes in a portable way? Without that, I’m hesitant to recommend it for REST deployments.”
This is certainly a reasonable concern. The fact that Adobe still has not addressed this [...]
It has been a year since I wrote my first PureMVC vs. Cairngorm post, and in that time I have had the opportunity to build more applications in both frameworks for some pretty diverse organizations. Studying the official Adobe training materials for Cairngorm has also brought some points that I had not previously considered. Perhaps [...]
In the second Flex/Alfresco webinar, we showed the Flex side of how to get content from an Alfresco repository and display it in Flex. In this video, we show you the Alfresco side - how to create and deploy a custom JavaScript web script. You can watch the video and download the Alfresco source code [...]
In January I had the opportunity to visit the Queen City to provide some Flex training to a great team of developers under the queen’s crown, and to spend time with some dear friends as well. They (the developers, not the friends) had a requirement to produce bubble charts that had labels inside the bubbles. [...]
In my first Flex/Alfresco webinar, I showed how you can log in to Alfresco from a Flex UI using Alfresco’s Flex SDK. That was nice, of course, but it was also sort of a tease: it left folks wanting to see the next step. Well, it took a while, but I finally recorded a new [...]
I was delivering Cairngorm training to a client’s development team, and the team lead mentioned that the old Cairngorm Diagram Explorer really helped him get a feel for how the various moving parts of Cairngorm work together. After browsing through it, everyone on the team agreed that it was a great tool, but that since [...]
I’m on The Flex Show this week, talking a bit about Flex/Alfresco integration. Jeff and John were great, and I think I managed to get some useful information across in spite of the fact that I was recovering from the flu when we recorded it (back in December). There are a couple of items that [...]
I’m in the process of developing a new Flex 3 RIA, and the server code is not yet written, so I’m using static XML files to provide data while I build out the UI functionality. The XML files are stored on my development machine in a subdirectory of the folder that holds the main SWF. [...]
About 15 months ago I released the initial version of CheckBoxGroup, and I was very happy to see that a number of people found it useful. However, like most developers, I can’t stay happy with my creations for very long; I always seem to think of things that I could do to extend and/or improve [...]
In August, I posted a simple application that shows how the Flex 3 AdvancedDataGrid handles XML data. What I did not discuss in the accompanying blog entry is the fact that binding the XML from the server directly to a UI component is not generally the best design for a real-world application. Unless you’re building [...]
