There is a dismal lack of clear instruction for configuring BlazeDS AMF services with Spring. Many of the resources that do exist refer to older versions of the software or strict scenarios that do not apply to everyone using Spring for their projects. This document will outline the steps necessary to configure BlazeDS with Spring …
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Last evening, I was interviewed by Jeffry Houser and John Wilker of The Flex Show with a focus on Flex Development in Higher Education. We chatted about a general overview of Flex and education, some Flex projects I’m involved with at the University of Denver, a bit about the Adobe Education Leader program, and emerging …
We all know that ColdFusion allows Flash Remoting (AMF) communication to occur via two separate URL strings: http://my.site.com/flex2gateway http://my.site.com/flashservices/gateway I recently came across the problem where the URL Rewrite rules in IIS7 were blocking both of these URLs from being passed on and correctly processed by ColdFusion. The solution is to add the following two rules …
In working on a small utility application (Adobe AIR) this week, I came across a pretty major memory leak in the beta Open Source Media Framework based Spark components in Flex 4.1 final. The utility I am building grabs over 10,000 video clip records from our media repository and then systematically goes through and renders …
Say you have a Spark List in your application with a TileLayout and drag options toggled on: But when you drag item up the list, depending upon your itemRenderer, it may take forever for the list to scroll… and the areas which trigger scroll up and down the list view are tiny in comparison. You …
While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements that can be included within a tweet; links, usernames, and hashtags. I was able to find regular expressions to do all the heavy lifting from various sources on …
The more I work with Flex 4, the more I understand why certain choices were made regarding the new component architecture, especially in regard to skinning. I stumbled, at first, as the skinning model is quite different and can appear much more cumbersome at first glance. Like most Flex devs, I was used to just …
The music distributor CD Baby just completed a huge update over the weekend. Looks like they have some Flex going on in the user admin area: It’s just the default Flex styling, so it’s pretty obvious- very cool to see, nonetheless!
After having deployed many AIR apps with self-signed certificates over the past year or so, when I finally got one from a certificate authority I was quite happy to update my apps with it. Not so fast! You can’t update an AIR app that has been signed with a different certificate than a previously installed …
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A FlexEvent.IDLE event will dispatch every 100 milliseconds when there has been no keyboard or mouse activity for 1 second. So, if you want to have some other method fire off after the user is inactive for 5 minutes (for example), you would set it up as detailed below. Be sure to import the following …
I took some time today to update the VidLoop AIR application. The current version is 1.2.2. New features include a randomize function and the integration of the AIR Update Framework. I’ve also fixed a few small bugs. A note of importance here… I really should have integrated the update framework before my initial public build. …
Last week, I was approached by someone asking if we could build a small application that would run a series of videos in a continual loop. I told him it would be pretty simple to do this and that it would only be an afternoon’s work in AIR. So, that evening, I was able to …