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You can now search Macromedia's LiveDocs for Flex 1.5 and Flex 2 using command-line commands like flex2p mx.effects to see the documentation for the mx.effects package.
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The migration of user accounts from SourceSecure to CVSDude was successfully completed today.
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Here is the source code for a simple presentation application in Flex 2 that I threw together for my talk on Flex 2 at the London MMUG last week.
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In case you haven't heard yet, there is a new open source remoting product available for .Net called Fluorine (and in case you're wondering, yes, the name is related to Flouride.) It was probably chosen because Flourine is the most chemically reactive of all elements and combines readily with most other elements (an apt analogy for Remoting, if you think about it) -- although it is highly poisonous (no analogy there with Flash Remoting, thankfully, but maybe it's a stab at Microsoft!)
A quick reminder for anyone considering attending my Hot Shots courses that the early bird registration for February's courses closes on January 31st, in just 7 days.
You can now search Macromedia's LiveDocs for Flex 1.5 and Flex 2 using command-line commands like flex2p mx.effects to see the documentation for the mx.effects package.
Thanks to Paul Godden's email on the Brighton New Media list, I discovered YubNub yesterday. YubNub is "a (social) command line for the Internet" allowing anyone to create commands that launch web sites and applications. How cool! Of course, I had to create one so I decided to make one to help me search LiveDocs.
The migration of user accounts from SourceSecure to CVSDude was successfully completed today.
The SourceSecure web site now forwards to CVSDude and Mark Bathie and his stellar team did an amazing job of moving everyone over without any issues or downtime. If you do notice anything out of place while trying to access your account on CVSDude, please contact support@cvsdude.org or use the CVSDude Forums.
Here is the source code for a simple presentation application in Flex 2 that I threw together for my talk on Flex 2 at the London MMUG last week.
The application works by loading in a list of slides from an XML file, wherein each slide has an image and a title declared. It then proceeds to load in the images and presents them, in its default State, in a ViewStack (ala any Powerpoint presentation you've seen.) You can navigate between the slides either by using the NumericStepper control or via the keyboard. Additionally, it has a second State, the Index, which you can navigate to by pressing the "Index" button. The Index Sate shows you a thumbnail view of of all the loaded slides along with their titles. The transitions between slides is a simple cross-fade. If you change the presentation.xml file (eg. to create your own presentations using the application), click the "Refresh" button to reload the data.
In case you haven't heard yet, there is a new open source remoting product available for .Net called Fluorine (and in case you're wondering, yes, the name is related to Flouride.) It was probably chosen because Flourine is the most chemically reactive of all elements and combines readily with most other elements (an apt analogy for Remoting, if you think about it) -- although it is highly poisonous (no analogy there with Flash Remoting, thankfully, but maybe it's a stab at Microsoft!)
I was happy to see that the Fluorine project is using the Arp PizzaService example and that the .Net back-end for it uses Value Objects (VOs.) There are a couple of changes that you need to make to the Arp PizzaService example (which you can see running at the AMFPHP web site) and these are clearly outlined in the Fluorine documentation.