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Adobe Connect failure on the Mac - apologies to the Connecticut UG
So - if you tried to attend my presentation tonight, you saw it was a complete and utter failure. Whenever Connect opened, all I saw was a blank white screen. I connected to my PC via RDP, went to the meeting, and confirmed it was working fine there,...
May 14, 2008 08:39 AM
ismywebsiteok.com
You know those times when a client phones to say "i think my website is down, can you check for me?" and it turns out not to be a problem with their web  site, more a problem with their internet connection. Sound familiar?
ismywebsiteok.com is something i knocked up in 10 minutes to help in just [...]
May 14, 2008 05:22 AM
Learning Flex
After about two years of threatening to learn Flex I'm finally doing it. I started by completing the "Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications" DVD-ROM course from Total Training. I won this a while ago at a CFUG meeting and have been meaning to get to it ever since. I have to admit, I wasn't sure how I'd like the format given that I usually learn by reading a book on a particular topic then experimenting, but I liked the course. And I know what your thinking, "Flex 2?," but from what I
May 14, 2008 05:09 AM
Adobe AIR 1.0 TextArea Component Bug
Dave from twentysix passed this interesting bit of information to me upon reading my post Adobe AIR 1.0 hates the ComboBox Component. It seems that you will run upon a strange bug in the TextArea component when selecting text. For example… Create a new FLA and set the Publish Settings for AIR [...]
May 14, 2008 05:08 AM
eSeminar Q&A
RJ Jacquez, our Sr. Product Evangelist, has presented today's eseminar Interactivity in Virtual Classrooms where he showed Adobe Captivate, publishing to a Connect server, creating a curriculum, and using Adobe Captivate content in a live virtual classroom (our seminar presentation room). We had over 600 attendees so I helped out answering questions and received several requests to make the Q&A available (see below - participant's last names and redundant question
May 14, 2008 05:00 AM
ColdFusion Demos v. 2
took some time to clean up my demos and packaged them up into an archive. I’ve shared a lot of these before one-on-one so you may already have a CF8Demo.zip lying around. I’m considering this rev version 2. "These demos are hot. Hot like fire!"
May 14, 2008 04:59 AM
Adobe Feeds Update II
Just a quick note to let you know that I fixed the Adobe Feeds web services.
May 14, 2008 04:57 AM
Inexperience wanted
The company where I currently work : Blast Radius is currently looking for talented people to join our San Francisco office and work alongside me– specifically, killer CSS gurus, masters of hand-coded CSS and JavaScript, Flash/Actionscript programmers,...
May 14, 2008 04:56 AM
Playing with jQuery - ColdFusionBloggers.org Update
A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to come back to the site and rebuild it using Spry or JQuery. Not because I wasn't happy with t...
May 14, 2008 04:33 AM
GTA IV Tip: Safely bypassing toll booths...
I haven't seen this tip anywhere (because maybe it's too obvious, I don't know) so I thought I'd share it. You can safely bypass paying your tolls driving straight through the middle gap between all the toll booths on a motorcycle. You need to be on a motorcycle, because it's the only vehicle that will fit. :) Sometimes I don't feel like outrunning the cops and don't like slowing down to pay the tool, so slipping between the booths saves me a lot of time (although I admittedly have been using t
May 14, 2008 02:44 AM
SparkTable: Visualize Easing Equations
Visualization plays an important role in my work. One example is the SparkTable tool I use to visualize and compare easing equations. Very useful when trying to choose between two similar eases, or when developing custom easing equations. It also demonstrates an interesting rendering bug in the Flash Player. You can download the SparkTable here.
May 14, 2008 02:44 AM
Nokia Music PC application Beta launched
Via AllAboutSymbian, Nokia Music PC application Beta launched. You can download it from Nokia Beta Labs.
Alessandro
May 14, 2008 02:44 AM
Air Apps on Lifehacker - freshAIRapps
One of the sites I hit daily is Lifehacker. Today I noticed a post about freshAIRapps a directory of
ratings and reviews of many new and new-to-AIR apps
It’s cool to see Air out in the wild and getting some good press! Check it out at: http://freshairapps.com/
Quick update: Appears the site is hosed due to traffic [...]
May 14, 2008 02:37 AM
Are You Sitting On The Fence Waiting For A CF IDE From Adobe?
I was checking out this CFUnited post on what people are looking forward to seeing at CFUnited. This comment from Marc Escher caught my eye:
Question: A recent hot topic?
Marc: One that doesn’t get much press but which is on the minds of many is whether Adobe’s going to come out with a CF IDE. [...]
May 14, 2008 02:37 AM
CFLunch Reminder - Friday @ Chili’s
Just a quick reminder - the Triangle area CFLunch for May is at Chili’s near The Streets of Southpoint Mall.
When: Friday, May 16th, 11:30am
For more information and to RSVP please visit the CFLunch.org site and leave a comment if you are planning on joining us!
You May Also Enjoy Reading:CFLunch Reminder - May, 16Triangle Area ColdFusion [...]
May 14, 2008 02:37 AM
Using ColdFusion to create an Encryption / Decryption Key from Plain Text
I have been doing work with Encrypting something in ColdFusion and decrypting it in ColdFusion. I've wrote about these experiments before. I've been trying to figure out the best way to create a key.
In ColdFusion I could easily use the GenerateSecretKey function. However, if I do that, how would I pass that key to Flex? It would have to be hard coded in some manner into the Flex Component that needed the encryption algorithm.
What I wanted was a way to generate the key on
May 14, 2008 02:33 AM
Hungry for some snacks?
Well I've got a treat for you! Snackr, an AIR app developed by Narciso Jaramillo who is a product designer for Flex and is working on Thermo also from what I have heard!
Anyway Snackr is a RSS ticker that just fits onto the side of your desktop in place you would like it (Top, Bottom, [...]
May 14, 2008 02:33 AM
PollEverywhere - Live SMS Voting for US Residents
Poll Everywhere is a hosted SMS voting system for US cellular phone customers. Everyone from a small blogger to a large corporation can sign up for an account and have Poll Everywhere host SMS vote contests. Pricing ranges from free to $370 per month, depending on the number of votes being cast and the number of votes allowed per month. I've created a sample poll and embedded it into my blog below.
This service is nearly identical to LiveVote.ca, which I've covered before on RIApedia. However,
May 14, 2008 02:32 AM
Timelapse CSS
Matthew Buchanan had a little fun and created a Timelapse CSS example that lets you walk through the process of how a browser would put together a page if it was a human artist:
When building website templates, Iâ??m constantly switching between a view of my CSS code and a view of the page Iâ??m working [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Whatâ??s in a window.name?
Sometimes it is interesting to see that knowledge from the 10,000 B.C. period of web development can be used in new ways to create - to play it safely - interesting ideas.
Each window in a browser has a name property which became pretty much useless when we stopped using pop-up windows and tried to [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
inputEx: JSON form builder
inputEx is "a javascript framework to build fields and forms" created by Eric Abouaf. The framework uses a JSON format to describe a form, such as:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
 
{
        "fields" : [
                {
                        "type" : "group",
  [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Snackr - Little Bits of RSS Goodness
NJ on the Thermo team has been working on a little AIR application called Snackr built with Flex that helps you keep track of your feeds. It’s a little ticker that runs at the bottom of your screen and then displays random RSS items from feeds you subscribe to. Instead of a traditional reader in [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Adobe Community Summit 2008 - Day 1
Yesterday began rather early with a quick trip to the Nashville airport. After roughly 6 hours in the air (Nashville - LAX - SJC) I landed in San Jose and grabbed a cab to the San Jose Fairmont, a really nice hotel in the downtown area.
Walking into the lobby of the hotel I was greeted by several smiling faces, Dee Sadler, Jim Pickering, David Schmidt, Buck Sommerkamp, and more. After a dropping my bags off in the room and catching up with folks we headed to Cupertino to visit Apple's
May 14, 2008 02:26 AM
Papervision3D course in Toronton / June - link was broken
http://blog.papervision3d.org/2008/04/17/finally-50-student-discounts-on-last-2-pv3d-courses/
That’s the new link - apparently drupal decided to reset the links and renamed mine something like “http://richmediainstitute.com/08_make_mini_muffins_with_John_Grden” - which of course, is wrong
If you’re interested or know anyone that is, please let them know about this class. It’s a smaller venue this time and is being held at the FITC offices [...]
May 14, 2008 02:25 AM
What Do You Want Training On?
I've blogged about this a couple times, but I wanted to make one last post about this: I am supposed to be teaching a full day class on Model-Glue on Monday June 16th, two days before CFUnited 08 starts. Unfortunately, the original description of the class wasn't very good and the class is likely to be canceled due to lack of participation. While that's unfortunate, the room is already paid for and is at my disposal. This opens up opportunities for companies who want specialized training tai
May 13, 2008 02:57 PM
Ask a Jedi: Complete Spry CRUD Example
Walter asks:
I was wondering if you can help, I am trying to get my feet wet with Spry and CF, you have many blog posts that refer to this but I wanted to know if you can point me in (or have an example) of a : Add / List / Amend / Delete solu...
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May 14, 2008 12:14 AM
Improving performance of Eclipse/FlexBuilder
I’m working on a Flex project that is just kicking Eclipse in the ass. It takes forever to build and I keep getting out of memory errors. Finally, I complained about the issue on Twitter and @tomcornilliac was nice enough to twit back that I needed to give Eclipse a bigger heap by editing the [...]
May 13, 2008 09:53 PM
OOP Data Validation Using Validation Behaviors In ColdFusion
In my last post on object oriented data validation and error message translation , there were some really good conversations about factoring out validation logic such that different scenarios could validate the instance data in different ways. This morning, I tried to apply that methdology by factoring out my Girl.cfc and Clothing.cfc validation logic into "validation behaviors". I am not sure what the exact de ... Read More »
May 13, 2008 09:41 PM
Speaking at Connecticut ColdFusion Users Group
Tonight I'll be presenting to the Connecticut ColdFusion Users Group at 5PM CST. I do not see a Connect URL yet but I'll post a comment once I have it. The presentation will be on ColdFusion 8 and Ajax, something I've given before, but if you haven't...
May 13, 2008 09:11 PM
PicLens
PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing photos and videos across the web. With one click, PicLens makes online media come to life via an immersive presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser.
May 13, 2008 09:04 PM
Persevere: JSON Storage / Application Server
Kris Zyp of Sitepen has released Persevere:
An open source set of tools for persistence and distributed computing using intuitive standards-based JSON interfaces of HTTP REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, and HTTP Channels. The core of the Persevere project is the Persevere Server. The Persevere server includes a Persevere JavaScript client, but the standards-based interface is intended to [...]
May 13, 2008 08:52 PM
FreshAIRApps
FreshAIRApps is primarily a showcase and gallery website that shows some of the fantastic Adobe AIR applications. Complete with Adobe AIR updates, tutorials and development resources, it might prove to be a good destination for AIR developers.
May 13, 2008 05:31 PM
Notes from the Evangelist Offsite
Update: Wow, this ended up being really long.
All of the evangelists at Adobe had an offsite today in New York and it was one of the coolest days I’ve had at Adobe. Obviously I can’t get into a bunch of what we talked about but the team had really great in depth meetings with [...]
May 13, 2008 05:21 PM
The Universe, from Russia
Just found this incredible director/designer based out of Ulyanovsk, Russia. His name is Maxim Zhestkov and he states that he’s interested in the universe, infinity, fractals, b/w, space, experiments, motion, design, architecture, physics, and sound. Damn. Great combo of influences and it shows in his breath-takingly unique perspective.
Some truly magnificent work. Be sure to [...]
May 13, 2008 05:18 PM
Portfolio Patterns
I love this post, by Armin at Speak Up, on how the video flipbook is the new finger hold. In it he provides examples of trends in the ways that graphic designers showcase their work. As design trends move fast, his survey is only nearly 2 years deep. But it’s an interesting evolution, nonetheless, complete [...]
May 13, 2008 05:18 PM
Nokia 5310 Xpress Music and Nokia 5610 Xpress Music headed to T-Mobile US
Via IntoMobile, the Nokia 5310 Xpress Music and Nokia 5610 Xpress Music headed to T-Mobile US.
Both these phones are Flash Lite 2.1 enabled!
Alessandro
May 13, 2008 03:17 PM
Protect Your Smartphone with Guardian!
Marco the developer of Guardian mention about the new release of the Guardian software to protect your smartphone.
Guardian is an Advanced Antitheft Software for Mobile devices, it provides unique and powerful features:
Sim Changed notification through Invisible sms
Password Protection of messaging, gallery, contacts or every other application
GPS Localization and Tracking through GoogleMaps
Optimized for Low Memory and [...]
May 13, 2008 03:17 PM
Ovi adds Location !
Via AllAboutSymbian, Nokia online share service OVI added Location capability. So when taking pictures with your GPS enabled phone such as the N82 or N95, you can geo-tag your pictures which then are shown on a google map on the OVI site.
Here is my OVI Biskero share, need to start GEO tagging my pictures !!
Alessandro
May 13, 2008 03:17 PM
Flash Lite gaming platform: Spitun
Andrea from Interpreting sent me a press release about their Flash Lite gaming platform: Spitun
“SpitFunâ?¢ is not only a mobile game. It is a SpitFunâ?¢ branded game platform, which will welcome other games based on shared characters in the next few months. This platform will grant players game continuity and a multiplayer cross-platform game experience.”
Looks [...]
May 13, 2008 03:17 PM
RegExp note to self
I’m always forgetting this simple piece of code, so I’m putting it up here:
Match any character, any number of times: (.*)
May 13, 2008 03:13 PM
CF_BlogPicks May 12, 2008
Another week where great posts had to be sacrificed to get down to the limit of five entries. As a bonus, however, a selection of posts about cf.Objective() including some passionate discussions about the future of ColdFusion. See why you don't want to miss cf.Objective() next year!
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May 13, 2008 03:12 PM
OzFlex Adobe User Group Meeting
Yesterday I went to the OzFlex Adobe User Group meeting as I am trying to get myself a bit more familiar with Flex. It was a great meeting run by a Monash student, Matt Johnston. Met some new and old faces. And apart from the food and drinks, I also found out that there is [...]
May 13, 2008 03:09 PM
Getting Started with Slicehost
There comes a time in everyones life when they have to setup a linux computer from scratch. OK, so maybe not, but if you’re a web programmer you might well be faced with the problem of putting out a colocated server, just a VPS where you have full control over the box. With full control [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Getting Started with Slicehost", url: "http://www.adamfortuna.com/2008/05/12/getting-started-with-slicehost/" });
May 13, 2008 03:09 PM
Google Site Search
After frustrations with the K2/WordPress search on my site, I've switched to Google custom search. I'd never really used the built-in stuff, but when I was setting up my project pages, I did a bunch of searching, and it just didn't seem to work very smoothly. In particular, you have to manually URL-escape your search [...]
May 13, 2008 03:09 PM
Checkbox Range Selection Update
Just a little update to my checkbox range selection jQuery plugin to allow chaining. I'd forgotten to return 'this' at the end of the function. Here's the full source, including the mod:
(function($) {
$.fn.enableCheckboxRangeSelection = function() {
var lastCheckbox = null;
var $spec = this;
[...]
May 13, 2008 03:09 PM
Disable the auto-update capability in Adobe AIR using the SettingManager application
If you want to update the Adobe AIR runtime manually you have to disable the auto-update capability. Using the AIR SettingsManager you can disable it.
AIR SettingsManager is a small application that use a toggle button to Enable or Disable auto-updates as desired.
Download AIR SettingsManager application.
May 12, 2008 11:25 PM
Profiler Improvements
A number of you voted for us to invest in improving the profiler in Flex Builder. So, what, exactly, should we improve? I'd love your thoughts. Here are a few ideas to get things started...
Improving Backreferences reporting for built-in type...
May 13, 2008 03:07 PM
Links for 2008-05-12 [del.icio.us]
Adobe // brand tags
What do people think about when you say Adobe?
Seth's Blog: What do you know?
I think we do a lot of this on the Flex marketing team.
Synchronizing Drupal Modules with Adobe AIR
Using AIR to sync Drupal modules.
May 13, 2008 03:06 PM
Anatomy of an Enterprise Flex RIA Part 17: Testing Flex
In the last installment we saw how we use Cairngorm's model locater to configure the view using Flex's binding. Now we're going to have a look at testing flex with Flex unit and automating those tests.
We’ve seen how we use TestNG to unit-test the application’s persistence layer. Flex has a unit-testing framework too, called FlexUnit.
Testing visual applications is never as easy as testing non-visual code. The Flex framework has some automation classes for use with automated testin
May 13, 2008 03:05 PM
Are You Full As A Goog?
