fullasagoog.com full roast blend http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2008-10-11T10:52:04+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Broadchoice Beta - Soon! Sean posted an update on the Broadchoice Workspace beta. Check out his post for details and some cool screen shots. Basically, the time to sign up is now! Sean also mentions the iPhone application, which will make my last post make a bit more sense p... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E9637C41-AB93-7062-B450F6D5E70F4ACF ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2008-10-11T10:52:03+10:00 ValidateThis! - Object Oriented Validations Demo Now Online I have put together a demo of my validations framework for ColdFusion that I have been working on for the past several weeks. It's available here. The demo shows how the framework can take a simple xml file, which describes the business rules for an object, and generate client-side and server-side validations on the fly. It is a proof-of-concept, running in an environment identical to that which would be used in a real application. It is a simple, one-page example, but is utilizing http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E778C18C-D62B-BF3C-5D9D17D4BF46CFBA ColdFusionMX Bob Silverberg 2008-10-11T01:56:02+10:00 Fig Leaf Offering ColdFusion 8 Administration Class Our partners at Fig Leaf are now offering a 3 day hands-on training course in ColdFusion 8 Administration. Classes are currently scheduled in Chicago and Washington, D.C. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FFF673-CB88-6D01-D1B29454B78456BD ColdFusionMX Ben Forta 2008-10-10T23:44:06+10:00 Using Layouts in Flex 4 Gumbo If you have started working with Flex 4 you may have gotten frustrated by the problems with layouts. At first glance I thought there was something wrong, I placed it as a work in progress bug and moved on. But then I started looking at the actual error I was presented with when [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FF3FF4-C726-19BA-A22FF6CF242B8555 ColdFusionMX Simfluence 2008-10-10T23:43:19+10:00 Boagworld Blowout Sale: tickets at 20% off today only! I was recently on Paul Boag's excellent Boagworld podcast and promised Boagworld listeners a discount for the <head> web conference, so here it is! Starting now (10:30AM BST on Friday, October 10, 2008) and for 24 hours, you can buy tickets for just $119 — more than 20% off the regular price. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FF1B36-ADB2-623C-C9FD7B575EFA331C FlashMX FlashAnt 2008-10-10T23:43:10+10:00 What makes a great WebJam presentation? Nick Cowie presenting at a WebJam even in Sydney in September 2007 â?? thanks to Gary Barber for the photo As previously hinted at on this blog, WebJam 9 will be held in Perth after the Edge of the Web conference, November 6, at the UWA Tavern. This will be Perthâ??s second WebJam event, although a few [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FEBFB8-CC02-2C94-21796E5B155B3940 ColdFusionMX Kay Smoljak 2008-10-10T23:42:46+10:00 Ending a Flex Builder Debug session would cause Safari to quit I have a feeling this is something specific to my installation, but adding it to google just in case. Whenever I ran a debug session for an actionscript project in Flex builder, Safari would quit when the session ended, either by terminating it in FB or by closing the ... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FDA3B9-A99F-C6C9-C030A5013A520F23 FlashMX FlashApe 2008-10-10T23:41:34+10:00 More FlexChart Stuff I've made another minor enhancement to FlexChart, this time around grouped legends.  Previously, if you mixed grouped series and ungrouped series (e.g. a stacked column chart with a line series overlaid), the legend would be all kinds of wonky for the line series.  I've fixed that so it'll now render in a reasonable way. As always, [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FCC763-91C5-3167-79803185E7A1221F ColdFusionMX BarneyBlog 2008-10-10T23:40:37+10:00 Audio mixing with Pixel Bender Time to have some advanced fun with Pixel Bender. Recently someone in the community complained to us that mixing 13 mp3 tracks using the dynamic sound playback feature in Flash Player 10 does not really work. Well, true with the sample project he gave us. Doing dynamic sound playback is generally tricky to get right. I can provide a few tips though.1. Pick the right mp3 encoding formatIt's important you pick a format which consumes the least amount of CPU time for decoding. Specifically you shou http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FC9F88-968D-C382-4AAECDA38D6F1E84 FlashMX Tinic Uro 2008-10-10T23:40:27+10:00 Want to learn some of the Adobe Flash CS4 new features ? I've just finished to read this interesting article on the last issue of The Edge magazine: Adobe Flash CS4: New features and improved workflow Tha article was written by Doug Winnine that explored some of the biggest features of Flash CS4 Professional and show you how they can improve your workflow. This is a recap of the new features of Flash CS4 http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FBAD29-93C1-2630-B90BB9F81C6A8E1F FlashMX Marco Casario 2008-10-09T18:00:00+10:00 Web backup solutions, your help is requested I have been investigating web based backup solutions like Mozy, iDrive, etc. So, I am looking to the community for some feedback on these types of solutions. Who do you use? What kind of experience are you getting with your solution? Oh, and this would be for a Mac in my case. [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6FAF91B-9E5F-8248-DC73011C879D300C Flex Rich Tretola 2008-10-10T23:38:39+10:00 New Prefixes for Flex 4 Components As a couple people have noticed, the nightlies of Flex 4 include some changes to the component names. Instead of <Button> we’ve now got <FxButton>. I asked Matt what was up and he gave me some info. If you’ve been looking at the Flex 4 stuff at all you know that what we’ve done is [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F67161-B58B-3B7B-9381923AA05D2250 AIR Ryan Stewart 2008-10-10T23:33:42+10:00 Figuring Out the New Namespaces in Gumbo Simeon Bateman has a really good post up about some of the changes that we’re making to the namespaces for Flex 4. Because Flex 4 “Gumbonents” are going to live next to the old Flex 3 “Halo” components, namespaces are going to be an important thing to understand. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F67170-C8F8-B002-BC5948A230327A85 AIR Ryan Stewart 2008-10-10T23:33:42+10:00 Data Visualization With Processing One of the most common themes that I write about on this blog is data visualization, especially with Flex and AIR. This time I decided to change things up a bit and am exploring data visualization with Processing. From the Processing web site: Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F57B0A-F219-FDD4-C2FBDA52C898F6DA Flex InsideRIA 2008-10-10T23:32:39+10:00 Drive safe, y’all I’ve been jogging for a little over a year and a half now. Nearly every run of mine has been at night. Look up the definition of “not a morning person” in the dictionary — you won’t find it in there, nor will you find my picture, but it just so happens that [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F480DB-F15A-19DD-55DFF294A4DA9EC9 ColdFusionMX Rick Osborne 2008-10-10T23:31:35+10:00 ColdFusion Training Figleaf just announce that their own administering ColdFusion 8 instructor-led course has gone gold. Administering ColdFusion 8 Administering ColdFusion 8 teaches system administrators and developers how to effectively install, configure, secure, and manage ColdFusion servers in a variety of different configurations. It is a three-day, hands-on course. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F4572B-A36C-86E4-5FC4FB6F50A7E2FF ColdFusionMX Kristen Schofield 2008-10-10T23:31:24+10:00 Can an AIR application restart itself? Short answer: maybe. Buzzword has an â??Unrecoverable errorâ? dialog that we put up if an internal error occurs and we donâ??t think itâ??s safe for the app to continue running. We give the user a chance to submit an error report to our servers, and then we let them click a button to restart. [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F26C24-AAEA-4993-4AAC09110FFC0889 Flex David Coletta 2008-10-10T23:29:19+10:00 My Session at Adobe Max Milan This year I have a session at Max Milan called "Complex Data Manipulation With Actionscript 3.0". The title is a bit missleading because rather then showing how complex it is I want to show you how simple it is In this session I want to cover aspects of working with files and streams in AIR [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F2589C-FCE0-A3C7-784D502C78827348 AIR richapps 2008-10-10T23:29:14+10:00 The Adobe Creative Suite 4 Documentation is live! In an earlier blog post, "The Adobe Flash CS4 Documentation is live!", I mentioned that the Flash CS4 documentation was live. Tonight I did a bit more searching and found that all of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 documentation is live. Get ready to get your CS4 on: Adobe Media Encoder CS4 Documentation After Effects CS4 Documentation Bridge CS4 Documentation Contribute CS4 Documentation Device Central CS4 Documentation Dreamweaver CS4 Documentation Fireworks CS4 Docume http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F224BB-D0EB-5E2D-0D6B681F533C3173 Flex Peter deHaan 2008-10-10T23:29:00+10:00 Last day to enter the ScaleNine contest Just a reminder that if you are thinking of submitting a theme for the ScaleNine ‘Skin to Win’ contest then today is the last day to package up your entry and submit it here. Top prize is a MacBook Air, copy of CS4 Master Suite and Flex Builder 3, together with a ticket to MAX (US [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6F193B6-E746-DB11-9DE84E878BF0C7D4 Flex Andrew Shorten 2008-10-10T23:28:23+10:00 Welcome to Chrrch v0.5a! Well, We're ahead of schedule but it wasn't easy. Nearing the end of the day today we started merging the changes into production and all things started go to wrong.  We did some quick fixes, and we look to be fairly stable.  I'm sure there are some missing areas but I'd say for a .5a release we're looking VERY good. Usability Enhancements Person Finder is now more usable.  It's a dialog window now with it's own easy to use search capabilities.  When using Pers http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A87600-0E18-F4F4-D249AD4D720D70AB ColdFusionMX Joshua Rountree 2008-10-10T22:08:32+10:00 Exclusive iPhone in Action Chapter Downloads Now that the NDA has been released, book publishers are finally able to get out their wares. Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline have written iPhone in Action, and have kindly given the Ajaxian community free downloads of a couple of the early access chapters: SDK Programming for Web Developers delves into the introduction to Objective-C and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F5F-B6AE-CE63-0D4B3FC110119B99 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:18+10:00 Reinhardt: a Client-side Dispatch Framework Kevin Dangoor of SitePen has introduced Reinhardt a dispatch engine on the client side: A typical server-side web framework today includes three main components: a URL dispatching to some controller object scheme, a template engine, and a data mapping facility. Currently in Dojo, youâ??ll find that the latter two items already exist. dojox.dtl provides the first [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F01-00CD-5219-4624493FD1454A65 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 IE8 and Standards Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software has updated his post on IE 8 to cover beta 2: XDomainRequest: Microsoft unfortunately continues with XDomainRequest rather than making changes to XMLHttpRequest as other browsers are doing and as is being standardized by the W3C Web Apps Working Group. (Disclaimer: I am the editor of XMLHttpRequest Level 2.) [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F11-9C3E-82D1-F99C32B9E6D3C1F4 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 An Interesting Twist on a Pastebin Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they're easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting. Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F21-DBFC-C965-1AC248DAF005E779 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 Chofter: search mashup using all things Dojo Shane O'Sullivan has built a nice search mashup experience called Chofter. It uses all things Dojo, including: Layouts, Dialogs, Menus and ContentPanes for the user interface. dojo.data and dojo.rpc for data transfer. dojox.dtl (Django Templating Library) for transforming search data into visuals. dojo.fx and FisheyeLite for eye candy http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F30-AEE0-19C0-0F590B4EC6581CC6 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 How does the scoping work with eval()? Rakesh Pai wanted to understand scope issues with eval and found a few surprises. He started with the snippet: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var foo = 123; var bar = {     changeFoo: function() {         // We'll keep changing the following snippet         alert(this);         eval("var foo = 456");         // Changing [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F40-A6D3-90F4-B4CE170963E8AEC7 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 Mobile and Devices Cookbook (Beta) Adobe have just launched a beta Mobile and Devices Cookbook - an online community-driven portal for sharing code "recipes" for Flash Lite. Great resource for newbie and experienced developers alike. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A77568-BEDD-E688-39E45535E6E67088 FlashMX Dale Rankine 2008-10-10T22:07:26+10:00 Mail Goggles - Beer Goggles for email. I have a 2 beer limit for sending email. This will help help enforce that limit. From the Google Blog: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html "When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind? By default, Mail Goggles i http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A7680A-C1DD-4ADE-8CD4B32F20054F67 ColdFusionMX Gerald Guido 2008-10-10T22:07:22+10:00 SWFPack beta released I was happy to hear the Kuneri SWFPack beta has been released to the public today, a web-based tool that allows you to very easily package up Flash Lite content to a SIS (NFL, CAB and DRM support is planned). All basic Flash Lite packaging features are free of charge, they do plan on adding some [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A70941-9EDC-AD95-1863B9668A9829F2 FlashMX Peter Elst 2008-10-10T22:06:58+10:00