Yahoo! has released a beta version of their web messenger. Mike Potter of Adobe gets in a shot at Silverlight over Yahoo!’s choice of Flex over WPF/Silverlight:
Of course, the application release comes hot on the heels of Michael Arrington saying that Silverlight from Microsoft was going to make “Flash/ Flex look like an absolute toy”. [...]
The majority of work I do is Flash/Flex and Rails so ActiveRecord, which is the M in the Rails MVC, is really the only part of Rails I use. I’ve always wished I could get ‘Rails Lite’ (In this case Camping doesn’t count) and just use ActiveRecord to pass data back and forth. My wish [...]
March 27, 2007 – 11:06 pm
The release of Apollo has renewed my interest in Flex, I was on the Flex Builder Beta for OS X but don’t do enough Flex work (yet) to shell out for Builder so… I Googled around for the best open source solution.
It was my lucky day as Todd Sharp updated Darron Schall’s 2005 post about [...]
December 21, 2006 – 11:59 am
I’ve been messing around with the FlexOnRails Cairngorm/WebORB app and wanted to add some more fields to the flex form for projects (I’m building a construction project tracker so I need to add the project’s address). However as I’m a lazy programmer I quickly got tired of typing all the values to be passed in [...]
December 20, 2006 – 9:03 am
FlexOnRails have two (first, second) detailed posts on using WebORB for Rails with Flex. The demo app uses Adobe’s Cairngorm a framework for Flex and it’s Value Objects which can be mapped (through WebORB) to server side objects. Make sure to read the comments on the second post as Derek Wischusen explains the value of [...]
November 14, 2006 – 11:01 am
There’s a good introduction to using WebORB for Rails in Web Developer and Designer’s Journal. It gives a basic overview for the uninitiated while also highlighting some lesser know features such as retrieving Rails session objects and authentication (setCredentials), the latter being a fairly recent addition to WebORB.
November 13, 2006 – 6:06 pm
Sephiroth have a couple of useful plug-ins for Firefox for debugging Flash. One is FlashTracer which will output any trace actions in a SWF. The second is Flash Switcher which let’s you switch between Flash Player versions.
Go get’em.
October 31, 2006 – 11:37 am
Go grab it from Adobe Labs
I’ve been using it for a while now and can say that it has helped me be more productive compared to my old method of using TextMate and the Flex SDK, mainly because the build times out of Flex Builder are a couple of seconds while the SDK takes 10-30 [...]
October 6, 2006 – 11:22 am
The number one search on here is for “flex example apps” so I know it’s not only me looking for some guidance to get started with Flex 2.0.
I didn’t get into Flex the first time round, the price point was just a bit too high for a small business like mine to buy it. Now [...]
October 5, 2006 – 1:46 am
Or RoRRIASDK, say that ten times fast!
The kit features six examples – and growing – of Flex/Fash with Ruby on Rails goodness including my Flash Remoting with Rails MP3 player tutorial. Big Ups to Mike Potter of Adobe for setting up the SDK and allowing me to contribute to it.
There’s also an Adobe PHP SDK [...]