This is my introduction post for a weekly series of articles based around my experience of developing my first Enterprise Flex RIA. Through the development process I am recording short notes and then composing weekly articles based from these notes. I will be posting 2 articles each week, one will be posted on cairngormdocs.org which will be related more to the implementation of the cairngorm architecture in this application while the other article posted on this blog will be about the overall picture.

To begin with, I am not going to be disclosing too much detail of the purpose of the application and will not be releasing any source code, although I may include snippets of code to help illustrate certain areas of the articles.

The RIA is a pure Flex 2 GUI and the backend server application is built in Java. Our front-end team currently consists of 2 Flex Developers with another developer coming on board in a couple of weeks and hopefully more in the future.

Enjoy.

 I will be presenting at the next CFUG meeting.

Here’s the details

 

Our next scheduled meeting for the Victorian ColdFusion Design and Development User Group will be Thursday, the 2nd of November, at Level 2, 17 Raglan Street

South Melbourne starting at 7:00pm. 

 

This week we will have Bjorn Schultheiss presenting again on FLEX 2 and hopefully a bit of a chat about MAX and what happened down there.

Just a reminder about the CFAUSSIE lists, anyone who isn’t registered should be. It’s the best place to get help or even just have a rant:P

Go to the cfaussie google group to register.

Hope to see you there.

 

We will be providing refreshments and finger food so if you are looking at coming along please send an RSVP email to steve@cfcentral.com.au so we can get some indication of numbers.

 

On arrival, if the doors are locked please call Mark Mandel on 0410528694 or Steve Onnis on 0401667996 and either one can let you in.

Just got Walloped

5 October, 2006

Thanks to the Mountaineer himself for the invite, cheers brother!

I’m now an official Wallop member, http://www.wallop.com/alienscience
very nice,
I always enjoy using quality Flash applications.

Myspace looks so lame at the moment,
The only thing that got going is the member base (which btw is not a bad thing to have)..

FlashDevelop 2.0 Complete!

5 October, 2006

Just posted on the OSFlash Mailing list
Good work guys!
I will definitely give it a go.

———-

We did it!

The FlashDevelop team is proud to announce the Final 2.0 release. We hope you definitely enjoy working with FlashDevelop all day long :)

This is really a community achievement, so “merci” to all the FlashDevelop users and contributors around the world: your support means a lot for us.

Download FlashDevelop 2 Final:
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=1001

To be continued…

- the FD Team

WEBLO opened for business today,

A founder of MySpace which sold to Murdoch for 300Ms has gone and started another one!
And they mean business!!
You want the whitehouse, you got it!
You want the president, you got him!
You want britney Spears’ fat ass, man you take that shit, it’s for sale,all for sale!!

more info:
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=4849

Watch this space..

Microsoft has it’s new online product.
Most interesting that they are using a Flash UI!

This is only affirmation to me this industry has recieved another boost.

They are offering a marketplace for flash designers to sell widgets.
http://designer.wallop.com/

Awesome remoting alternative!

27 September, 2006

This email just appeared on flexcoders:

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Hello :)

You can use my framework OpenSource “Vegas” : http://osflash.org/vegas

NB : you can find my project too in google code :
http://code.google.com/p/vegas/

With this extension ASGard : http://osflash.org/asgard

In ASGard you can find asgard.net.remoting package :

AS2 version :
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS2/trunk/src/asgard/net/remoting/
AS3 version :
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS3/trunk/src/asgard/net/remoting/
SSAS version (FMS) :
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/SSAS/trunk/src/src/asgard/net/remoting/

You can find example to use this implementation in AS2 example :
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/AS2/trunk/bin/test/asgard/net/remoting/

EKA+ :)

“”"”

He’s a cool dude,
the code’s all free and available for use.
These tools are awesome.

New FLEXAUSSIE mailing list

2 September, 2006

We have a new mailing list for Australian Flex Developers

FlexAussie
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexaussie/
I created the mailing list to serve 2 purposes.
1. To create a local forum for Aussie Developers.
2. To encourage and assist new Aussie Flex Developers.

I intended this list to compliment FlexCoders and hopefully we will not see too many duplicate postings between the lists.

Regards,

Bjorn