Utah Senator Jon Greiner blogs about SpatialKey 3 years ago
Utah State Senator and Ogden City Police Chief blogs about Spatialkey and the power of bringing together relevant data sets from multiple places. Here is a small sampling...
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Utah State Senator and Ogden City Police Chief blogs about Spatialkey and the power of bringing together relevant data sets from multiple places. Here is a small sampling...
After leaving Adobe in November of 2007 I joined Universal Mind as the director of Technology. UM had been working on a product that was called LaunchPad. At that time LaunchPad was a proof of concept built for the San Francisco...
This article highlights the many different Flex development frameworks available as the Flex community has grown by leaps in bounds in recent years.
After installing Flex 2.0.1 I was frustrated to find that I was no longer getting output to my flashlog.txt files. After some searching around I found that it was moved to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\Lo...
I was creating a simple application to enter IP addresses into a database and I found there was no simple way to validate the IP addresses. With Flex it is fairly simple to create a custom validator. The code below uses a regular expression to val...
I found this pretty cool and a great demonstration of the new power with FlashPlayer 8.5. FlashVNC is a Flash Player based client that connects to a TightVNC server. Check it out on
In working with Flex and Flash I have used the crossdomain.xml several times. For someone new to Flex or Flash it is somewhat difficult to explain why it is needed. I end up drawing pictures and probably confuse the developer even more.
What is this crossdomain.xml thingie? 3 years ago
If you run a Flex or Flash application on Linux in Firefox or Mozilla you may see the application only render partially and the rest of the screen shows up gray or black. This is a known issue with the Flash Player. You can find some i...
Christophe demonstrates a very cool approach for integrating HTML pages/sites into an app that is 100% Flex and it makes the application look like the Flash Player is loading/rendering the HTML in the page. You can check out his blog post...