For a while now, I’ve felt that the Flash/Flex community needed a good, open source, CMS. Having spent some time developing and working with my Textpattern-based solution, I came to the realization that Flash websites need a Flash-centric solution, (as opposed to an HTML-centric, like Textpattern). Well, actually, Flash websites need both: a Flash-based solution for flash-enabled browsers, and an HTML-based solution for mobile and other non-flash-enabled browsers. I know, it sounds like a pretty tall order, but with all the open source goodies out there I was actually able to whip this up in about two weeks.
Source:Introducing Digizex: Open Source CMS for Flash and Flex [AS3] [3]
admin Swf flash websites, swf websites
Digizex has been refactored to use the Fabrication framework, and a slew of new features has been added, including integration with KapInspect. This tutorial walks you through installing Digizex on a personal web server.
Source:Digizex Video Tutorial: Installation and Basic Features
admin Swf flash websites, swf websites
A while back I wrote an Adobe Air Application that simulates multi-touch events. The goal of the application is to assist developers in their own development of multi-touch applications knowing that they might not have access to multi-touch hardware or that they might find a simulator more efficiant for testing during development. The core benefit to using SimTouch is the transparent background allowing the application developer to have a better grasp of what he/she is ‘touching’.
SimTouch works by simulating touch events and passing that information to other flash applications via a protocal called TUIO. SimTouch uses the same xml format that FlOSC might use to translate OSC message to a TUIO object. SimTouch needs a simple socket server to relay the XML Socket message between applications. Typically on port 3000.
Source:SimTouch Multi-touch Simulator
admin Alagad Alagad
As promised, attached is the presentation I just finished up at cf.Objective this year. This presentation was on using open source tools for web application project management.
This is my first time for this presentation, so I appreciate any feedback. If there is enough interest, I would be glad to do this presentation againfor the online CFUG or some other venue.
This has been posted to SlideSix now …. http://slidesix.com/view/Web-Application-Project-Management-zPQda
Thanks again for the opportunity.
Source:cf.Objective 2009 - Web Application Project Management
admin Alagad Alagad
Everyone test’s their web sites before going live (right??), even if it just means that you click on the site after pushing it to production, but how do you simulate the large user count your production environment may see? Apache’s Jakarta Project has a product called JMeter that fits this bill nicely, though getting it working can be intimidating. This post will walk you through setting up a basic web site test and where to configure the important bits with the latest JMeter release.
First, of course, you need to go download the latest JMeter binary release:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi
On OS X you will need the binary file that ends in .tgz, on Windows grab the binary that ends in .zip. You will also need a JRE setup on your system (to test if you do, drop to a command / terminal prompt, and enter ‘java -version’. If you get ‘bad command or file name’, go hit Sun’s site and download the appropriate JVM / JRE)
Source:Site Testing with Apache's Jakarta JMeter
admin Alagad Alagad
As promised, attached is the presentation I just finished up at cf.Objective this year. This presentation was on using object oriented techniques and design patterns to take code reuse to the next level. The premise here was to go beyond custom tags and user defined functions which are the norm for many ColdFusion developers and start to think about creating reusable systems.
This is my first time for this presentation, so I appreciate any feedback. If there is enough interest, I would be glad to do this presentation againfor the online CFUG or some other venue.
Thanks again for the opportunity.
UPDATE: This has been posted to SlideSix now …. http://slidesix.com/view/Taking-Code-Reuse-to-a-Higher-Level
Source:cf.Objective 2009 - Taking Code Reuse to a Higher Level
admin Alagad Alagad
If you are trying to use IBM ILOG Elixir with a Flex 4 build from Adobe Open Source, you might have noticed that recent builds are breaking our components. Basically most components will get dark colors and things that. Even if…
Source:Latest Flex 4 (aka Gumbo) Builds and IBM ILOG Elixir
admin elixir elixir, ilog
Sometimes it happens that you need to manually delete files and windows kindly inform you that you don’t have enough privileges to do so, even as an administrator of your own machine…
To fix this problem you will have to use cmd.exe (as an administrator):
> cd /d c:\thepath\whereYouWantControl\
Now you want to take ownership of this folder:
> [...]
Source:Rule your files - get permission on most of your pc files.
admin Swf RIA, Ricj Internet Applications, Swf
The following example shows how you can determine when a video has finished playing in a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex Gumbo by listening for the complete event.
Full code after the jump.
Source:Determining when a video has finished playing in a Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex Gumbo
admin Flex, Swf Flex, Flex Examples
The following example shows how you can disable/enable the play/pause button on the Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex Gumbo by setting the enabled property on the VideoPlayer control’s playPauseButton skin part.
Full code after the jump.
Source:Disabling the play/pause button on the Spark VideoPlayer control in Flex Gumbo
admin Flex, Swf Flex, Flex Examples