Apple-ism

For all you appelites out there (yes I am a convert myself), Check this video out.  Pretty creative.

Patterns, Patterns and more Patterns!

I was reading through some blogs this morning, some how I managed to read a July 2007 post on Sean Corfield's site nearly a year later... which sent me to Brian Rinald's blog and Matt Woodwards Blog about Design patterns in CF  (both are good reads, why I didnt see …

Searching for a flex component that does this...

I Googled and checked out flex.org for a component that has already been built that mimics the functionality provided in the two links below.  I have seen it on quite a few sites today and I like how it flows.  I think this would be great as a flex component.  Before I …

Yahoo using CF?

A colleague of mine sent me a couple links on Yahoo's site that actually had ".cfm" extensions.   My first thought was, wow.  My second thought was I wonder if they plan on using CF in other areas besides the press room and in job post? 

Contact Manager Part 2 - Cairngorm Example

This example uses the Contact Manager, a (very) simple flex application, that I talked about in Part 1 "Contact Manager Part 1 - Remoting Example".   I took that application and modified it to use the Cairngorm framework - "Microarchitecture is a lightweight yet …

Avoid creating.....

Just ran into this the other day and I thought I would share it.  I have a application that I recently converted over to CF8 and ran into a small snag.  I was using Illidium PU-36 Code Generator and had a table called roles, user and an associate table called …

ShoppingAds Custom Tag for Mango

I created a new custom tag called "ShoppingAds".  I am not a fan of using custom tags in Mango, I prefer the plugins.  Why? Well with the custom tags you have to insert them into your skin templates and I honestly dont like doing that.  What if the skin template gets …

Recommend - "Top 10 Mistakes when building Flex Apps"

I was browsing around the Adobe Dev Net sites this afternoon during lunch and read this article "Top 10 Mistakes when Building Flex Applications" by James Ward & Jon Rose I agree with about 90% of what they were talking about.  Except for #5) "Trying to hire experienced …

blip.tv Plugin for Mango Blog

I created a new Mango plugin, now you can add blip.tv videos easily using the Mango Post tool in the admin by adding a simple tag [bliptv:postId].
All you need to do is pass in the post ID when creating a new post in
Mango and the video will display in the position of …

PHEV - Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles

I am considering converting my 2007 Prius to PHEV.  The cost is still a bit high, I have seen numbers of $6k+ depending on the batteries you use.  I hope that data is old and the kits are cheaper now.  Looks like Toyota and Ford have created a couple prototypes and …

WebOrb - Universal Connectivity for RIA's - and it's FREE

I know the title sounds like I am a sales guy for Midnight Coders, but I was pretty impressed with what I saw and felt the need to share this.

I was at a Boeing Flex User Group meeting yesterday that is hosted by Mike Kollen and a couple folks at Boeing.  Mark Piller …

Flex Frameworks - get your digest

I was browsing through my daily digest this morning and found two things that I thought are worth listening to.  There are two new podcast on Flex Frameworks, one is from The Flex Show w/ Thomas Burleson talking about Cairngorm and Universal Minds Cairngorm …

Flex/AIR Developer Rates -- check this out

So I did some research this weekend on the going rates for Flex/AIR Developers and I found this through a couple different blogs (Mazharharhasan & SeanTheFlashGuy).  HotGigs shows the average billable rate @ $100 bucks an hour. 

So I am a simple mid-west guy living in a …

Adobe Reorg Announced

Interesting read from Flex Developers Journal, I was able to find a related Adobe press release to back it up, here is the link to the article "Adobe Reorgs: Mandels and Ramadan Gone, Lynch in Charge of the Whole Magilla". 

The move from a strategic stand point makes …

Digital Camera & Aperature vs. Lightroom - seeking advice

I am in the market to buy a digital camera to support my new photography hobby.  I currently own a very old Canon AE-1 Program that I started to use to learn photography.  I feel I could learn faster with a digital camera because I can see my pictures a bit quicker …

Flex Builder 3 and Charting w/ Flex 2 SDK

I ran into a small problem today with Flex Builder 3 / Flex 3 Eclipse Plugin.  I have a project that is currently using the Flex 2 SDK when its compiled I don't have a lot of time on this project and we are not making it compatiable with Flex 3 (just yet). 

The problem …

Flex Builder 3 and the VSS Plugin

Quick note -- hopefully it will save some of you some time.  The VSS Plugin on sourceforge.net does not work in the standalone FB3 IDE.  It only works in Eclipse.  So if you want to use it for your Flex projects, make sure you use the Flex 3 Eclipse Plugin.  Once you do …

CFDocument - text cut off during page breaks

I have been working with a lot of dynamic reports lately and I decided to use CFDocument because I am not a fan of the Report Builder.  CFDocument has all sorts of issues as well and I am working through them as they come up.  For instance If you ever run into the …

U.S. Airforce Tanker Decision

Greetings, I didn't blog about this right off the bat, mostly because I was so ticked off at the decision and I would of just ranted on and on. Also because I work for Boeing and wasn't exactly sure if I could or not.  Than I thought, I can express my opinion first most …

CFChart Issue - Pie Chart

I have a customer who wants some charts in a PDF report they already get from an application. One of the charts is a Pie Chart and displays the dollar breakdown.  I ran into an issue with the value labels overlapping each other so I did some research and found this in …