Archive for the 'Adobe Flex/AIR' Category

Railo, BlazeDS and CFC instances

Monday, April 20th, 2009

There is a lot of buzz recently around Railo since version 3.1 finally went open source and many well known CF developers joined the project. This gave me the motivation to finally see how Railo really works. I decided to give it a shot on one of already running applications. The choice was made, I [...]

So what is going on with Flex Builder for Linux?

Monday, April 20th, 2009

First, I have to say that I am big fan of Flex technology. I have worked a little bit with Flex 1, then 1.5 and now full time with Flex 2 and 3. I saw how the platform evolved, I saw Macromedia’s and Adobe’s enthusiasm when they have been announcing every new release. I am [...]

AIR HTTPService does not return response headers

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Using Mosso Cloud Servers and Cloud Files for few days now I thought it would be useful to have AS3 library that would let me accessing my Cloud Files account directly from AIR. Just after spending last 2 hours writing prototype I came to the point when I wanted to read response headers that Cloud [...]

Safely storing configuration with passwords in Adobe AIR applications

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Almost every application designed to manipulate users data requires storing custom settings, often with passwords. MySQL on AIR is no different. One of the major features is saving connections settings locally. The most obvious way is to use XML but quickly an issue pops out – how to store passwords? XML is saved as open [...]

What is MySQL on AIR?

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

It is an Adobe AIR client for MySQL databases. About 3 months ago I moved to Ubuntu as my primary OS and the only thing I was missing was nice MySQL tool. I found few different projects, most obvious ones are MySQL Query Browser and phpMyAdmin, but there are always these small issues… MySQL Query [...]