in a rush

I got tired of maintaining my CF based site so I moved to a WordPress blog. It’s so much easier to plug new stuff in and there are a bunch of people building stuff for WP, I figured that I might as well do it.
I am in the process of moving all of my old [...]

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I have a pet peeve, although I’ll admit it’s one of many. The pet peeve is this. When starting a Flex application that requires authentication, I have to use tabbing or, heaven forbid, my mouse to set focus to the “user name” field on the login screen. Why!! We have been doing this for years [...]

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It doesn”t matter where I go, I always run into people having printing issues with Flex. Most have found the FlexPrintJob class and samples on how to use it, but for those who print multiple pages the results are sometime less than stellar.
I just found a new open source project called FlexReport. It is said [...]

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Our new site is RIA5280.org and is growing fast!
The Denver Adobe Flex UG has been meeting for a year and a half now with great success. We have had great topics, great speakers and great involvement from the community.
We”ve taken the next step in expanding our community by revamping the website. We are using a [...]

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In short, it’’s the free version of LiveCycle Data Services that includes the Remoting and Messaging technology previously available only as part of LiveCycle Data Services. It will now be available for free as a new Open Source product called BlazeDS (under LGPL v3 license).
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So they”ve added this new feature called Runtime CSS to Flex 2 and integrated it with Flex Builder 2.0.1. You may over think this a bit, as I did, but it is really quite simple. In this entry, I go over the details.
I also have a gotcha that may have you scratching your head for [...]

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Sharing your source code is easy in Adobe Flex 2. After a quick glance at the Application class in the Flex API, you”ll find that the viewSourceURL property will allow you to open a new browser window at which your source would be stored. You could point it to a specific file or zip as [...]

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While teaching a Flex class recently, I had several students encounter this error in which their application would error out with the following: “Error #2148: this error did not allow to read data from a file XML”
This seemed rather strange because the XML file was surely there, but something else was up. So we started [...]

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Having used a dozen or so IDE over the years, I appreciate it when they provide a way for me you use my favorite font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). You can set the font in Flex Builder from Windows > Preferences dialog window. Select the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts category. Then in [...]

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There is a new view that you can get from Adobe Labs that will add an RDS view to the eclipse IDE. It uses an updated version of ColdFusion MX, so it takes an update to your ColdFusion MX server before you add the plugin to eclipse.
The RDS view can be configured to point to [...]

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