A little bit of what interests me.

Description: The move to Eclipse

Description: I tried to get my code view working for my Twitter Pod but it seams there is a bug in Flex 3 that wont let me specify the code view source. Every time I change it Flexbuilder changes it back when it exports the release build. And here is the bug report at Adobe. It was already entered but I put my vote forward hopefully they fix it. bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-13194

Description: I wanted to intergrate SVN into Flexbuilder. As flexbuilder doesn't include all the java plugins installing SubEclipse took 1 or 2 extra steps. I found this blog post which worked for me withotu issue: http://www.flexer.info/2008/04/30/how-to-install-subclipse-on-flex-builder-3/ It's working great. Now to find a MS SQL explorer plugin so I don't need Enterprise manager open as well.

Description: I really wanted clickable links in my Twitter pod and I saw how easy Steve did it so I used his really nice regex. As per my original design I really wanted my Twitter feed to be a bit less generic so I remove my name from the start of each post and add a date stamp each entry looping over the 10 most recent tweets. I'm quite happy with the result. At first I was only using TextArea.text and not getting nice links when I saw there is also TextArea.html this is really nice and I can see many places I can use this in any data centric application.

Description: From the first moment I learnt of Adobe Max ( Vegas 2006 ) I wanted to go. It wasn't until this year that I became as big a fan Adobe due to a position change and working with Flex and Coldfusion. I'm really excited and can't wait to see/meet some of my internet idols and look forward to news regarding Coldfusion 9 and Flex 4.

Description: Well MAX is definatly bigger then I initially thought. It was the biggest turn out at any MAX event topping 5000 attendees. The opening session was full of Flash and the recent Flash 10 release ( including many mentions of AIR 1.5 ) and even included a visit from Arnie’s wife Maria Shriver ( First Lady of California ). Strangely absent was any news of ColdFusion although Flash being Adobe ‘s best known product ( other then Acrobat ) its not surprising that’s what they focused on. I was almost sad as they talked about Flash on the iPhone ( as I just got a new Blackberry ) and while they say they don’t have it yet I highly doubt Adobe haven’t done there part and actually have it running on the device. I was impressed with the CF un-conference and got to meet, in person Ben Forta, Ray Camden, Sean Corfield and Brian Meloche. I finished the night with the Meet the CF team and the CMFL BoF’s which was great to meet the team and hear Ben give away some hint’s relating to CF9. Not really hints but anything cool he refused to answer I took as a hint ? It was great to hear Gert from Railo and other members of the committee discuss the standardisation of core cfml functions as choice gives freedom and I hope the 2 big open source CFML engines ( Railo and Open Blue Dragon ) can help promote cfml as a alternative to php. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow key notes with Ben regarding Centaur.

Description: Well I have been playing with a new homepage and wrote a small section of code to display my twitter feeds using CFFEED. This is a great tag and I was able to in 4 lines of code read my feed and loop over it displaying it nicely. It was only a small step to port it into a flex widget which you can see on the side of my blog. I'll post up the code shortly.

Description: Flex configuration

Description: A new site has been launched to give examples and short tutorials on how Coldfusion and Flex communicate. Anyone can submit a tutorial and request specific examples. www.flexcf.com is the sister site to www.learncf.com

Description: Looping over objectElements in an arraycollection

Description: Well it’s the end of Day 2 at 2008 Adobe MAX and I have to say I was impressed. I really like the look of the new ColdFusion IDE “Bolt” and it really looks like its gong to work well with CF9 and Flex, which to me is a huge plus. Ive been using CF Eclipse for a while now but a true ColdFusion extension its going to be great. The ability to type datasoure=” and have a lookup to available data sources is really nice. The right click and generate a CRUD from the IDE looks like what we can do in Flxbuilder already but is still nice although with all the noise of Hibernate ORM integration it surprises me that we didn’t see right click of a table, from a datasource and a CRUD generation using hibernate and CF. Although Ben did mention “Other frame works” I can only assume this is still to come. I’m also really looking forward to Adobe Catalyst ( formerly Thermo ) as I’d really like to be able to produce some more applications that don’t look like standard Flex apps. I attended 2 labs High Powered ColdFusion by Dave Watts and Extending Flex components with Matt Boles. Both were great sessions but it was the Flex session which in the first 10 mins I saw a solution that would help me cut down code by fixing some hacks I used to get around things I wasn’t sure you could do. Lastly the sneak peaks did show a server side implementation of actionscript as a .sas file that is compiled on the fly and includes but the usual Flex code for displaying the data and the server side code for retrieving the data from the data base. This is interesting but I don’t think we will see this available for some time as currently CF and AS are a really nice fit. Bolt information/Beta signup: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Bolt (shame about the .php ? ) Oh and I forgot to mention there are plugin’s for Flex support into Visual studio 2008: http://www.ensemble.com/