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 [...]
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?
Merb was originally created by Ezra Zygmuntowicz to avoid some Rails upload issues.
This is one of the things that Merb was written for. Rails doesn‘t allow multiple concurrent file uploads at once without blocking an entire rails backend for each file upload. Merb allows multiple file uploads at once.
I’ve built ‘multiple’ file uploaders for Rails [...]
Yes every new framework sets my heart a flutter, but this time it’s for real.
Developing Flex/Flash on top of Rails? What if you could get ActiveRecord and RESTful routing at almost eight times the speed with 75% less RAM? How about all that and real concurrency, including true multiple file upload? All of the above [...]
I just registered for the LA stop of the Adobe AIR Bus Tour. It’ll be cool to meet some other Flex/AIR developers in SoCal.
SWFObject (formally know as FlashObject) is a javascript file that unobtrusively embeds flash in a web page. It works by replacing a holder div with Flash content, if the end user doesn’t have Flash or the targeted Flash player SWFObject will ‘fail’ silently and keep the original div. Here’s a Rails helper that let’s you [...]
Ted on Flex is previewing enhancements in the next version of Flex. First up is a look at better tools for designing/laying out your Flex app. I currently end up with a chain of HBox VBox components embedded together to get my layout ‘just’ right so the new advanced constraints sound great:
Advanced Constraints:
There are 2 [...]
My Flex DateChooser to JavaScript example didn’t solve my date selection problem entirely as the project I’m working on requires a project to have a start week rather than a start day. The Flex DateChooser has built in selectable ranges so it’s pretty easy to set that up (right click on swf to view source).
The Flex Ajax Bridge, which for some reason you can only download with Flex Data Services (a 150mb+ download for a 16k file), isn’t the only way to send data from Flex to JavaScript there’s also the External Interface API. I’m working on a Rails project tracker application for a construction company and need to [...]