Happy Birthday to me!
The actual anniversary was last week but I was in the Redneck Riviera on vacation.
My blog turning one is much less exciting than everything that’s happened since I started it. A year ago being an ActionScript developer on Rails was a lonely and frustrating time (so frustrating that my first post was [...]
If that title had any more buzz words my blog might explode.
Apple is holding a series of one day events in August on getting your app to play nice with the iPhone.
Of course if said 2.0 application is Flex you’re out of luck, for now.
There are some new RubyAMF screencasts up, Aaron Smith walks you through tutorials on…
Flex with stand-alone RubyAMF
Flex with the RubyAMF Rails plug-in
Flash and authentication
Flash and custom fault objects
RubyAMF is also now 1.2 with respond_to functionality, so you can use one controller action to return anything your heart desires RHTML, AMF, XML, JSON you name it.
def [...]
Tom Bray of Search Coders on stage
Here are my notes from the LA stop of the tour.
[Getting There]
The large orange juice before the drive up from OC might have been a mistake. Finding a rest stop in East LA is a potentially a pant wetting experience with an empty bladder, so having an Austin Powers’ [...]
RubyAMF now can be used as a Rails plugin or you can run it as a Mongrel process. There’s a nice screencast on Rails integration here.
The one-man RubyAMF show that is Aaron Smith also has a Super Simple Remoting class to get you up and running super simply.
Ruby has gone from no AMF support to [...]
Looking for some Rails like scaffolding for Flex and PHP? Try clicking the purple eclipse logo at the top left of Flex Builder 3.
You’ll be greeted with a database connection wizard that helps you set up a REST CRUD service, it even builds a mini-app for managing records.
There’s a (well hidden) screen-cast on Adobe labs.
Pretty [...]
The Midnight Coders have released A new version of WebORB for PHP. There’s a bunch of new features which equal, if not leap-frog, thos in AMFPHP. Their post runs through the top ten new features, but my favorites are #6 client/server class mapping
Client/server class mapping configuration. Since this is one of the most common tasks [...]
There are too many candidates running for presnit in ‘08 so as a weekend project I made Whackapol to ‘thin’ down the field. After a mere two days online it got a mention on CNN last night.
***UPDATE***
Here’s a link to video of the segment (1:50 min in).
And you think someone ought to crack the candidate’s [...]
Out of curiosity I put my Flex Builder 2 serial number into Flex Builder 3 and got 120 days added to the beta trial. Does this mean we get the final version in four months?