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#cfunited Notes – “CF Developer’s Guide to Mate Flex Framework”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Sample Application Uses upcoming.org REST API to show events ColdFusion End basic CFC to call API (getCountryList, getStateList, getEvent, search, etc) Mate easily handle flex events tag-based dependency injection supports modules flex messaging support extensible (extensions available) Typical Process view — event –> main.mxml -> eventMap (remote objects to CF) -> manager result is then [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “CF9 and AIR: Developing Offline Applications”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

The same 3 ways (WebService, HTTPService and RemoteObject) to connect to CF from AIR that existed in CF8 will continue in 9. New things in Centaur Fast Remoting made several times faster direct data translation between ActionScript and CF types circular ref bug is fixed no code changes required support the old style remoting for [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Digging Through the Flex Framework”

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Important skill Why? Everything isn’t always out of the box open source times are rough (set yourself apart) Real world examples Tips become familiar with class hierarchy FB keyboard shortcuts source location (including default CSS) finding component that best fits needs preserve compiler generated code Class Hierarchy important to know wehre you are so you [...]

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#360Flex Wrap-up

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

I had heard about these conferences for quite some time but this is the first one that I have attended. It definitely lived up to everything I’ve heard and will definitely be back! I like that it rotates and can’t wait for which town I will attend in next! I took numerous photowalks and here [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Flex, CF, and LCDS Magic” – Nick Kwaitkowski

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Magic you say? 4 lines of code to get data from app server to clients CF –> Adobe CF 7+ works but 8+ has LCDS baked in. No Railo/BlueDragon/etc. LCDS –> middleware app designed to move data Flex –> 2.0.1+ Data –> any serializable data including DB, LDAP, email, FTP, mapping software, web services, etc. [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Building real time applications with Blaze DS/LCDS” – Dan Blackman

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The why?!? CF request/response applications Flex RIA persisted data is not refreshed automatically stateful approach to managing data – no more sessions refreshed through manual client interactions or AS Flex Real-time Apps persisted data is refreshed via interactions w/ server stateful approach w/ server side sync refreshed through polling, long polling, or RTMP data management [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Using RSLs” – Chase Brammer

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Using SVG for edit in place in Flex apps – clients complained about size/speed. Advantages reduce file size library caching code reuse faster compile time single point of distribution/update collaborative and community work Disadvantages cross domain issues can’t create signed RSLs debugging quick editing must download the whole RSL (doesn’t trim unused classes) RSLs act [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Integrating Accessibility in an Enterprise-level Flex App” – Michelle Bagur

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

History Rehabilitation Act – 1973 you can’t discriminate based on disability Section 508 – 1998 required federal agencies to make their technology accessible to people with disabilities any group that gets money from the federal government also falls under this ie. universities, benefits, http://section508.gov/ Principles of accessibility (developed by WCAG) perceivable operable understandable robust Compliance [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Breaking down your apps with Mate” – Laura Arguello

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

I sat through half of this session but felt lost because I know nothing about Mate Seems like a great framework that is headed in the right direction without much overhead. Definitely going to look into it more.

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#360Flex Notes – “Programmatic Skinning in Flex” – Jeremy Saenz

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What is skinning? graphical – quick and easy files from Creative Suite. nice for distribution (Scale Nine) programmatic – not style-able with CSS, animation limited to component itself, inflexible when acting as a generic skin stateful – not really a skinning style programmatic skinning provides the power to create a skin that is just as [...]

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