Monthly Archives: December 2007

Hacking attachment_fu to work with Flash/Flex uploads and crop square images

December 28, 2007 – 1:19 pm

Rick Olson’s attachment_fu is my favorite file upload plug-in because let’s you use three different image manipulation tools [rmagick, mini-magick, image science] and storage options [file system, database, amazon s3]. However it doesn’t yet support two features I use on every CMS I build, Flash/Flex file upload (images will upload but won’t be resized) and [...]

By Alastair | Posted in Flash, Flex, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (10)

Flex Builder 3 Beta 3 is out

December 12, 2007 – 10:06 pm

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/
UPDATE: and stuff compiles waaaaaay faster nice!

By Alastair | Posted in Flex | Comments (5)

Rails 2.0 is go

December 7, 2007 – 2:00 pm

Tons of new stuff, my favorite is Cookie store sessions

The default session store in Rails 2.0 is now a cookie-based one. That means sessions are no longer stored on the file system or in the database, but kept by the client in a hashed form that can’t be forged. This makes it not only a [...]

By Alastair | Posted in Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (1)

Akelos PHP framework apes Rails

December 6, 2007 – 11:40 pm

Monkey see monkey do. I’m usually wary of PHP frameworks that are ‘inspired’ by Ruby on Rails but the Akelos folks have done a really good job with their port. They even have a screencast narrated by guy who’s funny accent you can’t quite place
Every now and then I get a project that [...]

By Alastair | Posted in PHP, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Two new ways to load data into Flash

December 4, 2007 – 11:15 pm

SWX Ruby is a port of SWX (originaly PHP), which claims to be “Ruby’s fastest library for exchanging data with Flash” I haven’t tried it because it doesn’t yet support Flash player 9 but I wouldn’t doubt it’s the fastest as many other methods aren’t too speedy (Although RubyAMF is much quicker lately).
as3yaml, you guessed [...]

By Alastair | Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Flash Remoting, Flex, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Want a job working with Flex and Rails?

December 4, 2007 – 3:01 pm

Jobs that combine Flex and Rails don’t come down the pike too often. Even more rare is one from a start up with a lot of buzz like Blist.
Speaking of pikes the job is in Seattle so all you Northwest Flex/Railers send in your resume and the solution to Blist’s programming challenge.

Without using any built [...]

By Alastair | Posted in ActionScript, Flex, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Hints of big AMF news this month

December 3, 2007 – 12:43 pm

From Ted (on flex) and Ryan Stewart.
Most are guessing AMF will be open sourced, anything that makes AMF more popular will be good news.

By Alastair | Posted in Flash, Flash Remoting, Flex | Comments (0)