I have been fielding lots of questions from ColdFusion developers who are starting to use the new Flex 2.0 software. I really enjoy being able to help users get the feet wet and over come some of the small hurdles. However I have found that some of the questions I am answering are ones [...]
I know there are alot of CF’ers who are excited about the opportunities that flex provides. However if the buzz in my inbox and on my IM is any indicator Beta 2 is really taking off.
The last couple days I have really enjoyed getting to share the joys and troubles of flex with alot [...]
Well I got the beta 2 software (FDS and Mystic) up and running on my mac last night, so I wanted to test out my flexMessage app. I found that a couple things needed to change for the new update. Mostly just best practices stuff. I had a couple functions that did not [...]
Well with the release of the Beta 2 suite of Flex tools we were treated by the flex team with mac and linux installers for all of the other tools (minus flex builder). However the CF connectivity remains a windows only install. I know it takes time to get software ready for all [...]
This should probably have been expected, but it was the only thing that fouled me up in moving my app from beta1 to beta2.
The default names space for flex has changed from “http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml” to “http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml”. This signifies both the company change and the year change.
In compiling with the SDK on my Mac this was [...]
Along with all the new fun tools we got with Beta 2 today we also got an udpate to the Flash Player 8.5. And dont be a slacker ( like me ) and make sure you update your flash player so you can enjoy the new tools :)
Although the intention has always been for the sdk for be free for all, previously on labs there was no cross platform download. i am very happy to report that there is now a cross-platform SDK download. Not only that, but the charting components are also availble for all.
Although not specifically for mac, [...]
So you want to play with the new code generation utilities in the Adobe Flex CF Eclipse Plugin. How do you get started? Well the first step is to head on over to labs.adobe.com and get the plugin. Its a zip file with 4 folders in it. Just drop those 4 [...]
As it turns out RDS is only one part of the plugin. The CF team went way above and beyond and the plugin now includes several types of CFC and AS code generation from DB schema’s.
In the downloads area the plugin is labeled “Download ColdFusion Extensions to Flex Builder 2.0″
So go get it and [...]
Wow, I just happened across this, but I am happy to see that the new beta was released today. Head on over to labs.adobe.com to get the new downloads.
But just in case you were wondering here is a link to whats change from beta 1 to beta 2.
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