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Flash Camp Chicago 2010 - Slides and Code

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:36:00 -0700

Here are the slides and complete code from my Flash Camp Chicago 2010 presentation - Accessing Remote Data.

Slides:
Accessing_Remote_Data_FCC_22262010.pdf

Code:
flash-camp-source.zip Feel free to ask questions!

FlexPMDPDF - A ColdFusion PDF report generator for Flex PMD!

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0700

I have been using Flex PMD on a project recently to validate Flex code and am really digging it. I have used Adobe's PMD viewer to view the violations. I needed to print out a report and there was no apparent way to do this from the Adobe tool, so I went ahead and made my own using ColdFusion! FlexPMDPDF is the result! It's available for download on RIA Forge! FlexPMDPDF takes a pmd xml file output by Flex PMD and creates a PDF report with several formatting and filtering options. You can choose to group the report by rules, files or priority. You further filter the rule and file groupings by priority. FlexPMDPDF ColdFusion 8 or later. Here is a sample call grouped by rule and only showing errors and warnings.

I've got complete documentation for the arguments in the CFC. Give it a shot and let me know what you think. If you have a feature request, let me know. And should you find a bug, please let me know and I'll get it fixed!

Flex Camp Chicago - January 22nd and 23rd...

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:23:00 -0700

Want to get a jump start on Flex? Come to Flex Camp Chicago! It's January 22nd and 23rd. It's just $25 for one day or $45 for both and lunch is included! The speaker lineup is great with the likes of Ben Forta, James Ward, the entire gang from Digital Primates, and many more! I'm speaking on uploading files with Flex on Thursday. It's a steal of a deal, so I hope to see you in Chicago! Find more information at flexcampchicago.com!

bFlex Slides and Code...

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:14:00 -0700

Here are the slides from my Cairngorm Jumpstart presentation at bFlex in Bloominton. Special thanks to Brian Rinaldi for help on the presentation slides. Slides
bflex_Cairngorm_Jumpstart.ppt

Code
CairngormShell.zip If you have any questions, comments, insults feel free to comment or email me directly.

360 Flex Slides and Code...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:20:00 -0700

Here is both the slides and code from my presentation on Using Value Objects in ColdFusion and Flex from 360Flex in San Jose. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Slides: 360Flex_KAS.ppt Code: 360Flex_SanJose.zip

Baby Showers and Flex....

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:58:00 -0700

So, what do baby showers and Flex have in common? Not a whole lot. But the Target Gift Registry and Flex have a lot in common! My fiancee and I were shopping for a shower gift for a couple who are registered at Target. I fired up the the registry kiosk and there it is, the ubiquitous Flex loader! The application itself was put together quite well and the usability was excellent. The only part of the process that I didn't like was selecting a state. You would pick a letter and it would immediately switch to another view of buttons to select from, listing all the states that begin with the letter you selected. Hit the wrong letter, you have to go back. With the capabilities that Flex offers, I would have much preferred to see a list of state names that narrowed down based on the letters you entered. For example, I live in Indiana. If I had entere "In" I could have had it narrowed down to just Indiana. Instead, I had to hit the letter "I", jump to another screen, and pick from the list. Not to mention, I hit "H" first. Oh well, enough gripes! It was great to see Flex out in the wild, in an application being used by the masses!

VO's with ColdFusion and Flex...gotcha!

Wed, 28 May 2008 08:26:00 -0700

Ok, so I was pulling my hair out last night trying to figure out why the value object that ColdFusion was returning was not casting to the value object on the Flex/Actionscript side. I bet I ran the Flex debugger 100 times. Everything looked just fine. The object that was being returned from ColdFusion was typed correctly and had the correct data, but when I went to assign the object to the proper type in Flex, it would end up being null. After a few hours of this, I decided to open a bottle of wine and call it a night. Nothing like a well rested pair of eyes to solve the problem. After having no luck this morning, I had my friend, Kevin Kazmierczack take a look at my VO on the Flex side of things.

Before:


[RemoteClass(alias="openmetric.com.openmetric.cfc.vo.OpenMetricEventVO")]

import com.openmetric.as3.model.vo.OpenMetricEventTypeVO;

[Bindable]
public class OpenMetricEventVO
...

Kevin suggested moving the import statement above the meta data for the RemoteClass. Shazaam! It worked. Now, I don't know if I'm just dumb and I missed this in Flex 101 and need to go back, or if this is just something you have to find out the hard way. I'm guessing it's the former, but who knows. However, swapping those two little lines of code to this made all my headaches go away: After:


import com.openmetric.as3.model.vo.OpenMetricEventTypeVO;

[RemoteClass(alias="openmetric.com.openmetric.cfc.vo.OpenMetricEventVO")]

[Bindable]
public class OpenMetricEventVO
...

Anyone else ever run into this?

360 Flex: Back to the Future....

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:00:00 -0700

360Flex is headed back to where it all started, San Jose and the eBay Town Hall Center on August 18-20th. I've had the opportunity to speak at both the inaugural 360Flex as well as 360Flex Atlanta and will be speaking once again this time around in San Jose. This time I'm teaching a half-day Flex 101 class on ColdFusion and Flex the Sunday before the conference, focusing on using Flex applications to manage the data in your database. I will also be giving the 90 minute scaled down version during the actual conference. In my opinion the 360Flex conference is an amazing value when it comes to conferences! Come on out, as you won't be dissapointed! And maybe, if you are lucky, Tom will show you the eBay NOC, one of them anyway!

Special thanks to Ed Sullivan!

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:02:00 -0700

Jesus, it's been since September 27th since I wrote anything!?! Well, I've got a few things to say so I'll just get started. From the yesterday's news department, MAX Barcelona was amazing, aside from spending 9 hours crammed into a Northwest Airbus. It was better than MAX Chicago. It wasn't as spread out and certainly had a better feel to it. Next, 360 Flex Atlanta, I'll be speaking on using the ColdFusion 8 Flex Gateways! A great line up of speakers and an all around great conference!

Register today!

And finally, for those of you who remember my bet with Ed Sullivan, well he finally paid up. At the Union Oyster house in downtown Boston over Thanksgiving weekend! Here's my reward and Ed in all his glory! A yummy 2lb. Lobster

Thanks Ed!

Yes, I'm wearing my Peyton Manning jersey in Boston

cf.objective() 2007 reflections...

Tue, 08 May 2007 20:37:00 -0700

Well, I know I'm a little late with this, but I feel it worth mentioning. If you haven't already read it somewhere else, cf.objective() was an amazing conference. The quality of the content was great and so was the food! Jared and everyone else did a rock star job putting the conference together. Thanks again to everyone. I'll be heading back there next year for sure and I hope to see you there. If you're wondering where the code from my presentation is, well, click on this link. Also, as a side note, I'm going to be holding a noob Flex contest, similar to that of Ray Camden's noob ColdFusion contest. Stay tuned for all the details.

An alternative to Cairngorm...

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:07:00 -0700

Since I'm in Atlanta, I decided to attend the Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group. It was a good time, I got to talk to Josh Adams and Charlie Arehart about my opinion on Slugworth and BlueDragon. They didn't convince me that my opinion is wrong. But, opinions are like assholes, everyone has got one and they usually stink. Now, on to the title of my post. Cliff Hall, who's teaching the Flex class that I'm taking demoed his new framework, pureMVC, during the show and tell portion of the meeting. It looks really interesting and Cliff is billing it as a simpler architecture without the learning curve of Cairngorm. Cliff is basing his pureMVC framework off the Gang of Four. He's got a demo Apollo application, Pantry Mouse, built using the framework as a proof of concept. Unfortunately Cliff ran out of time last night. He's planning on launching the site pureMVC.org in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes open.

Flex Training in Atlanta...Day 1

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:54:00 -0700

In my pursuit to become an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex (already am for ColdFusion) I'm in Atlanta this week for Flex training. One of the requirements to become a Certified Instructor for Flex is having to take the classes. The first class is Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications. So far, it's pretty basic stuff. We've covered the IDE, Layout, MXML Components and event handling. Already knowing this stuff, I think it's a pretty good class for someone wanting to learn Flex. I'll keep you posted as things go along.

360Flex code, better late than never...

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:22:00 -0700

I'm sorry this is so late, but I've been extremely busy. Here's the code from my Flash Remoting (AMF) vs. Flex Data Services (FDS) preso that I gave at 360Flex about 3 weeks ago. Flash Remoting vs. Flex Data Services If you have any questions about the code, please feel free to email me. Here's a couple of pictures as well. Me and Ed Sullivan Me and Ben Forta Some signs I pay attention to... Others I don't...

360Flex Rocked!

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:03:00 -0700

360Flex is over and I must say, it's one of the best conferences I've been to. I'm taking the next two days in San Francisco with my lovely fiancee, so I'll have my full report up, pictures, and my preso slides and code later this weekend. I know, it'll be yesterdays news by then, but you'll just have to wait for my riveting recount. In short, Tom, Ted and John did an absolutely awesome job. If these guys do it again, which they have plans to, don't miss it.

Getting ready for 360Flex...

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:06:00 -0700

I'm getting really excited about 360Flex. I'm putting the finishing touches on my presentation. I'm presenting late Wednesday on Flash Remoting vs. Flex Data Services (FDS) and when you would want to use one vs. the other. I'm leaving Saturday afternoon and am staying until the following Saturday. My fiancee and I are taking some time to tour the Bay Area. She's been there before, but I haven't been north of LA, so I'm looking forward to seeing the Golden Gate bridge. I'm going to be taking lots of pictures and loading them up here as well as blogging my thoughts about the conference. If you're going to be there, feel free to say hi! And I promise, I've got a helpful Flex blog up my sleeve as well. It'll be here soon.