I’m sure everyone who’s interested in Flex Builder for Linux already knows that by following Twitter and Adobe JIRA. So what’s exactly happened? Today, just 5 days before Flex Builder alpha 4 was to expire Adobe released an alpha 5 update on labs.adobe.com which is going to expire in 401 days. I have the gut [...]
I’m using Flex with ColdFusion for a long time now but sometimes I really can’t stand these two products together. I’m sending nested CFCs through the remote object back to Flex so ColdFusion has to serialize them to the form that may be understood by Flex. But I’ve got an error, somewhere I have an [...]
Today, while working on a small piece of code I discovered something that appears to be a DateFormatter bug. I was using following DateFormatter: [sourcecode lang='as3'] private var formatter:DateFormatter = new DateFormatter(); … formatter.formatString = “MMMM”; [/sourcecode] to display just the month names. I didn’t really care about the year when constructing new Date so [...]
There was an interesting question on stackoverflow.com today. Some unnamed user asked: Can we change the width of the datagrid column dynamically by clicking on the border of the column in order to display the complete string which is too long to be displayed and needs to be scrolled ? If so, How ?Also, how [...]
Disclamer In first words – no, of course it is not broken, it is working fine. But there is a specific issue with these two methods when the socket server is implemented incorrectly. I noticed I’ve been looking for the solution using these phrases and that’s why the post it titled like that. I just [...]
For a long time I couldn’t really understand what crossdomain.xml is for. Today, after finishing one the Flex projects I finally figured it out. At least one of two reasons. About 4 years ago Martijn de Visser described one of them – defending your internal network from the attacks. But there is another way reason why crossdomain.xml [...]
Tom Chiverton has logged a support request in Adobe JIRA for Flex Builder for Linux. Quick recap – a week ago Ben Forta being asked what is the status of Flex Builder for Linux answered: the project is currently on hold. There is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development. Developers want [...]
Earlier this month I mentioned I have found an issue with mx.controls.textClasses.TextRange class. This problem was identified on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 using Flash Player 10,0,22,87) and could not be replicated on Windows Vista and 7 with latest Flash Player. I had no chance to test it on OSX. To visualize the problem I am [...]
This post is an introduction to the next post that I am going to publish within next few days. It describes one of the features of MySQL on AIR, SQL code tokenizer, used for code coloring. For those who have no idea what a tokenizer is there is a great introduction on Wikipedia. In a [...]
Yesterday, 21st of April, Ben Forta came to London to give a talk about ColdFusion 9 new features. It was really good session, Ben demoed all new major ones. Integration with Hibernate, new Adobe AIR ColdFusion services and of course brand new ColdFusion IDE codenamed Bolt (which does look pretty solid by the way) were [...]