Blog Tag – Stickfight has thrown down the gauntlet (well fingerless glove)
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 12:26p Mark Barton As part of our preparation for polishing our Adobe Flex skills Mark Myers has suggested a Blog Tag – where we set each other an Adobe Flex technical challenge in which we have 2 weeks to write a blog explaining how to solve it.
Here is my first challenge to Mark.
Your challenge is to create a custom component which has no external dependencies i.e. a black box which utilises the inbuilt internationalisation features of Adobe Flex to display popup help in the users currently selected language.& [read] Keywords:
Problems Debugging Flex apps in the latest build of Firefox
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 7:22a Mark Barton I use Firefox and firebug to help debug Adobe Flex applications – firebug is a lot cheaper than paying for the advanced version of Flash Builder for the network monitor.
The problem is in the latest version of Firefox they introduced process isolation for plugins – this just causes any flex app to freeze when I am trying to debug it and the only way to kill Firefox is to end the task.
The solution (work around) is here. [read] Keywords: applications
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LCTY Manchester – Presenting Flex Notes Integration (possible freebies)
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 11:25a Mark Barton If you can make it to the LCTY Manchester on the 13th May I will be giving a presentation on integrating Adobe Flex and IBM Lotus Notes.
I will be covering:
Why Flex & Notes – the business case / the geek case?
Building Notes 8 Sidebar widgets.
Leveraging Notes Security.
Best practices for exposing Notes data and business logic to Flex.
Configuring environments to use Flex apps / widgets on non Domino web sites.
Lessons learned – e.g. Code Structure, Logging & Debugging, SSL & I [read] Keywords: domino
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ILOG Elixir – v3 Beta now available
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 9:26a Mark Barton The next version of the excellent interface components produced by ILOG, now owned by IBM, for Adobe Flex is available as a Beta here.
You can tell its now an IBM product as the name has gone from ILOG Elixir to IBM ILOG Elixir Enterprise 3.0
Features:
Supports Flex SDK 4.0 & Flash Builder 4.0
New: Diagram services for custom display creation as flowcharts, network topologies, process modelers etc. (Spark)
New: Timeline components (Spark)
Improved: Gantt charts for planning and sch [read] Keywords: ibm
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HTC Desire Good – Vodafone Bad
Fri, Apr 16th 2010 7:24a Mark Barton I have an iPhone 3G with O2 and decided it was time to try something a little more open as my contract was up.
I decided to settle on the HTC Desire which gets good reviews and go with Vodafone as they offer a Pico cell (Sure Signal) – living in the sticks we don’t get a great mobile signal so thought it would be a good investment.
I picked up the phone yesterday and my O2 sim was still active as the number hadn’t ported yet. I manually added the APN for O2 and bang we were off. [read] Keywords: iphone
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Loving XPages101 Training Videos
Wed, Mar 31st 2010 11:22a Mark Barton Got to say very impressed with Matts Xpages Training Videos.
I have been putting off learning XPages because I wanted to concentrate on Adobe Flex and I haven’t been that happy with the training resources that have been available for XPages. As a contractor my limited down time to learn new stuff means I need quality concentrated material.
I am at the early stages but I do have a production product to build so that helps
My biggest fear with X Pages is the concept of auto generated cod [read] Keywords: domino
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