http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2010-03-10T05:55:05+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of 37signals, had their new book Rework hit stores today. I heard about this book several months ago and setup an OmniFocus reminder to notify me of its release. I've already sent a sample of the book to my Kindle and will be digging into the text a little later today. If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I%u219m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur. Mark Cuba http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=44170DEC-E65E-632B-F67BE0E999879F61 ColdFusionMX Aaron West 2010-03-10T05:01:53+10:00 Two new projects and three updates this week in ColdFusion open source (a shortened week due to my late post last week). All of the lucky people are at 360Flex in San Jose this week. From the various blog posts and tweets I have caught, it sounds like John and Tom put on another fantastic event. Here's hoping they keep the info coming for those of us not fortunate enough to attend. On to this week's open source posts. New Releases and Updates New Project: Smartermail API wrapper + UI Initial R http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=440F73A2-E25E-DEA2-A37CE80E5D409E72 ColdFusionMX RemoteSynthesis 2010-03-10T04:53:35+10:00 Update: I think I have this figured out: SoX will do pretty much everything I need. It’ll even do intelligent crossfades and tempo adjustment. w00t! The Problem—Short Form Given a database of MP3 files and their intro and outro times, I need a piece of software with a text-based file format that will allow me [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41FDC6A5-E4B1-952C-1B245FCA07D15426 ColdFusionMX Rick Osborne 2010-03-09T19:15:02+10:00 So, this is probably confusing to some and I thought I'd try to clear this up. It's possible to setup Railo to run a task every x hour, minute and/or even seconds. You'll want to log into your machine and go to the Scheduled Task page ( e.g.: http://{your server}/railo-context/admin/web.cfm?action=services.schedule ) [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41FD4800-F259-C783-AAF96BCB2E9BECAF ColdFusionMX Gert Franz 2010-03-09T19:14:30+10:00 Two great Flex conferences have recently posted their video recordings: Flex Camp Wall Street Flex on the Cloud There were numerous great sessions and speakers at each of these conferences. At Flex Camp Wall Street I presented “Flex Stuff I am Excited About”. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41FC4DB1-DDA7-E032-1712E1541363A8FD Flex James Ward 2010-03-09T19:13:26+10:00 Here's a music video I made for the 360|Flex conference. It's a tribute to the Flex 4 release and the Flex SDK team. I hope you like it, from the bottom of my geeky little heart. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41FAF8EF-9DCA-EEEB-AE2F59616D587CD5 Flex Chet Haase 2010-03-09T19:11:59+10:00 Sorry if I am just a thick-headed Canadian farm boy but I saw something today that I have to ask about. I went to register for tickets for the 2010 London Olympics when I found this question posed to me:Ethnicity: (it is on this web page)Two immediate thoughts came out of this. First I wondered how to classify myself. Although I have relatively white skin, I do read books from other cultures and try to live some of their ideals. Buddhism is a particularly large influence on my private though http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F9A9CA-C934-EF6C-AB45A4B6316778F5 Flex Duane Nickull 2010-03-09T19:10:33+10:00 Since 85% of Alexa top 100 websites use Flash, and 75% of all video on the web is Flash, having the Flash Player on a tablet is the only way to experience the true web. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F96484-DBCE-6410-1928119241D47D26 FlashMX flashstreamworks.com 2010-03-09T19:10:15+10:00 Add authentication and authorization to specific parts of your Flex application through the use of the @Security annotations provided by the Spring Security framework. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F908A8-02F0-2556-ED05678AAA16DB1E Flex MM Flex 2010-03-09T19:09:52+10:00 Add authentication and authorization to specific parts of your Flex application through the use of the @Security annotations provided by the Spring Security framework. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F8FF23-BA8C-964F-7E7123DAF6ECB277 Flex Flex Technotes 2010-03-09T19:09:49+10:00 Here is a repost of my version of the Drill Down Bubble chart. --> --> View Source http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F8BFE7-A960-BAA4-EF1192E4954FCEDA Flex Merhl 2010-03-09T19:09:33+10:00 I will be heading to SxSW at the end of the week and look forward to chatting with some other UX focused individuals. The company I work for Universal Mind has a booth and I will be attending sessions but will making some appearances there as well. If you want to see some great [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F8BFF7-01DE-5470-E33E1847D1338884 Flex Merhl 2010-03-09T19:09:33+10:00 modulr is a CommonJS module implementation in Ruby for client-side JavaScript Ruby? what does that have anything to do with it? Ah, its from one of those Prototype guys isn't it.... Yup, Tobie is at it again, this time with modulr: modulr accepts a singular file as input (the program) on which is does static analysis to [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F7E96D-BC5A-A0BF-B4EFFF84E7EE9AD8 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2010-03-09T19:08:38+10:00 HTML5 includes geolocation APIs that work even on devices without GPS support. And Serge Jespers has posted a demo showing how HTML5 and Flash can work together to use HTML5 geolocation to power a Flash app. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F781BA-FF72-C2C3-284F9CBADA3FB7FA ColdFusionMX Ben Forta 2010-03-09T19:08:11+10:00 I already blogged about how excited I was about HP’s slate device a few weeks ago. These two new videos make me want it even more! The first one is a teaser ad from HP but make sure you watch the second video! Adobe’s Alan Tam shows the device in action! No CGI tricks here! Alan [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F77297-B479-EA48-3C516EEB491FE3FE Flex Serge Jespers 2010-03-09T19:08:08+10:00 Last Friday I blogged about how HTML5 and Flash could also just work together. A few people have asked if they could get the source files. I just packaged and uploaded the FLA, ActionScript class and HTML files. Download the zip file here. A few people have also noted that the demo doesn’t work across different [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F772A7-DB80-2BC2-7563E09FF1BBAE6E Flex Serge Jespers 2010-03-09T19:08:08+10:00 During my session at the Flash Gaming Summit, I showed a very simple 3D particle renderer to attempt to demystify the process of converting 3D into 2D. --> --> Click and drag. The actual code that converts from 3D to 2D is easy! First you have to figure out how [...] Related posts:Flash Sparkler Papervision "billboard" particles Flash Particles – now 1000% extra free! http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F73DCB-C2BE-9CF4-947FB68B252DD197 FlashMX Seb Lee-Delisle 2010-03-09T19:07:54+10:00 Via Mobile Entertainment, download the digital edition and check out the article by Richard CEO of Kooky Panda. I met Richard couple of time and I completely agree with him. There are hundreds of millions of Flash Lite enabled phones but seems no one cares or ignores the opportunity! “While Adobe is now moving to support [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F6F79B-9044-3922-13F930DF4BBF81EE FlashMX Alessandro Pace 2010-03-09T19:07:36+10:00 Via Biskero, Kero Mobile adds support for Sony Ericsson Satio and Sony Ericsson Vivaz. Download Kero Mobile directly to your mobile phone from www.biskero.mobi Check the list of supported phones. Alessandro http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F6F7AA-9673-E099-E4970718DEEBCD0E FlashMX Alessandro Pace 2010-03-09T19:07:36+10:00 A post up about Jeff Smith from Smule and why he won’t ever target Android. Smith is part of a small but vocal chorus of app developers who say they donâ??t want to move to Android, even though it is growing quickly. His complaints: He doesnâ??t like the way the store merchandises its wares, and he [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F6ADFF-F16A-1B6F-3BDD5322D3EC4FF8 AIR Ryan Stewart 2010-03-09T19:07:17+10:00 Some very cool video of Flash Player and AIR running on HP’s Slate tablet computer. It’s great to see Flash Player running on a tablet. One of the nice things about the tablet versus the mobile device is that because of the larger screen size, more content will work out of the box. Flash on mobile [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F6AE0F-C1A0-E0C3-D93282957D31C0AF AIR Ryan Stewart 2010-03-09T19:07:17+10:00 German over at java.dzone.com has a great article on db4o, a persistence engine that will make life easier for Java developers by giving them a middle ground option for dealing with data persistence, instead of relational databases with ORM tools, which are time-consuming, or serialization, which in Java is not straightforward for object persistence. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F69547-DED9-08D1-348E68BEADC53217 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-09T19:07:11+10:00 Microsoft isn’t done yet. Windows Phone 7 shows us that there are still new approaches to an OS for mobile devices that aren’t taking cues directly from iPhone. Check out the idea of navigating via horizontally scrolling built-in hubs to access People, Pictures, Games, Music + Video, Marketplace, and Office. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F69556-9611-4030-302604C64C07F7C9 DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-03-09T19:07:11+10:00 Apple’s put the 1st Apple iPad commercial on TV this evening (in the US): http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F66202-C918-D09C-814142670E033F12 FlashMX Scott Janousek 2010-03-09T19:06:58+10:00 Day 1 is done and over, and what a day it was. From the keynote to the end-of-day sessions, it was a whirlwind day packed with information. Here's the quick recap on the sessions I attended and the things we discussed. Morning Session: "Apocalypse Soon - component frameworks" by Michael Labriola. Immediately following the keynote I attended Michael Labriola's talk on "deriving the Flex component architecture." He talked about why things are the way they are in Flex, how the component archi http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F652FE-98D8-33E8-49AE409B0C16D3FC Flex InsideRIA 2010-03-09T19:06:54+10:00 The rest of the keynote is just logistics for the conference. I'll be back sometime tonight with a re-cap of day 1 and be back tomorrow morning to bring you day 2's keynote. Have a happy Monday! That's it for Deepa's part. 9:40 Gordon worked on text. Chet Haase (Flex Team) starts video off doing their own little Flex 4 rap "It's a wrap." Introducing the different Flex team members through rap. Wrap vs. rap haha. Deepa wrapping up, thanking community for making Flex a success. Playing a http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F6531D-F523-F69A-46D97A3A59DF74AC Flex InsideRIA 2010-03-09T19:06:54+10:00 In honor of its ten-year anniversary, The Boondock Saints (the original) is going to be back in the movie theaters for one night on March 11th (this Thursday) as a Fathom Events screening. I love this movie and I never got the chance to see it on the big screen. The first time I ever saw it, I think I purchased it on a whim for $1.99 in a Virgin Records "DVD Clearance" bin. Who knew that the movie would turn out to be awesome! ... Read More » http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F630A1-E5F4-E869-A781AFF6678EB8BF ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2010-03-09T19:06:45+10:00 It's been while since I attended to my VPS, I decided to spend some time last night upgrading my distribution from Etch to Lenny. This is normally a moment where your heart sinks as quite a few things do tend to go belly up, but I am happy to report that I only came [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41F5E8EA-BE17-15C6-CE61A5BB3634DF8C ColdFusionMX greg stewart 2010-03-09T19:06:27+10:00 Dana Tierney, Senior Editor, gives us a glimpse of the fun, food and focus on the first day of 360|Flex San Jose. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41A44495-D666-7E00-BEE0136090B5EBAD ColdFusionMX Fusion Authority 2010-03-09T17:37:16+10:00 This post discusses the various workflows for producing SWFs with the standalone compiler that use graphical assets and animations created in Flash Professional ("Flash Pro"). At time of writing the latest version of Flash Pro is CS4, with CS5 briefly out in beta for a short while. Specifically we look at the methods that involve exporting SWCs and using the [Embed] metatag within class files. Recently I posted a bug report regarding the [Embed] metatag, which led me to write this post in order http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4129B651-FCC5-0482-5F5BB91BB539964D FlashMX Flash Antics 2010-03-09T15:23:25+10:00 A lot of people have asked, and continue to ask how to skin minimal comps. Short story, long story, what you can do. Short story: you can't. Long story: Minimal Comps were designed to be minimal. Mostly for use in prototypes and experiments. Their visual UI is hard coded and skinning was never, ever part of the design [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A40-9EFF-7E9B-B9BAAFA885EF83F0 FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 I just added a new MInimal Component: an Accordion. It's pretty similar to what you see here: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2313, i.e. a VBox with Windows, but I made into it's own class with a few nice touches. A new Accordion starts with two sections. You can add more with accordion.addWindow("New Window Title");. You can access any window with [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A50-B48B-F4CF-A0B154DB011C3C83 FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 This is long overdue. Minimal Comps have been a sort of side project of mine, and have various posts here related to them, but enough people are using them and apparently liking them, that it seemed they deserved a home of their own. http://www.minimalcomps.com The site is nothing fancy (minimal?), and it seemed fitting to use the [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A5F-9DFB-D70F-DF2A9CCB8903E273 FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 Do you use Minimal Comps? I would love to get a list of sites and apps that feature them. Even if it's just an experiment or proof of concept type example. Leave links in the comments or email me at kp at bit-101 dot com. Thanks! http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A6F-FD79-A0FB-3E831D32C0D8F874 FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 I'm doing a personal project with my Minimal Components and I needed a calendar. So I made one. --> --> It's in version 0.98 here: http://code.google.com/p/minimalcomps/. This release also fixes a couple of bugs and adds a couple of features: - All components now have a "tag" property which is an int. Comes [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A7F-E499-4A17-F75EBEE2BEF21D1C FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 Someone just pointed out that I had an offscreen div with about a jillion spam links. Uploaded a new WordPress install. No luck. Changed the theme, that seemed to do it. Looks like I'm in the market for a new theme. Until then, enjoy the default. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A8E-9EB8-82B6-E06786EE43DA913A FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 Do you make Flash content? Do you have Flash content on the web? If so, you owe it to yourself and your clients to check this content against the upcoming version 10.1 beta player. There's lots of new goodies in this player, but as you - a developer yourself - know, when you add and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283A9E-EF25-B61D-3E3E7845E66331FE FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 Been a bit quiet around here, eh? As I mentioned in my New Year's post, I've been kind of taking a break lately. Haven't really been doing much of anything to write about to be honest. Waiting for inspiration to hit me. Well, it's starting to hit. A few weeks ago, I talked to Shawn Pucknell about [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283AAD-EFFA-DE4A-C58E56EB5B22E36D FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 There's so much I could say about the iPad, particularly being a Flash guy. But I'll stay out of that fray. Whatever will be, will be. The thing that bugs me about people's reactions to the iPad is when people say it's a Kindle killer. First of all, I'm pretty sure that most of the people [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283ABD-D3F2-5C67-57EA6CDBD64CEB6E FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 Just before I went out to FiTC Tokyo, I was contacted by Naoki Miyagawa, a translater working for OReilly Japan in Tokyo. He said that he was working on the translation of my book, AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation and had some questions for me. It was pretty cool to be able to say, "Well, as [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=41283ACD-925D-9AA8-814C8BF5249F2BC9 FlashMX Bit-101 2010-03-09T15:21:47+10:00 Finally got round to implementing this for work. As a starting point I followed the instructions found here. The config looked fine, but after restarting the service, I still wasn't getting prompted for a log in. After re-jigging the order to what you see below and restarting the apache service (we are using 2.0.59), it all [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=4126AF5A-D0F2-090E-F4AAB43C04DB3B3B ColdFusionMX greg stewart 2010-03-09T15:20:06+10:00 After 3 years, I figured it was time to update my blog design. What you see here is the result of that decision. I am happy. I like it. I hope you do, too. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=40696299-93FF-013E-B09016C39B07BB47 ColdFusionMX Boyzoid 2010-03-09T11:53:20+10:00 Earlier today I saw a pretty darn good tutorial over at ZURB (I have no idea why they are, but with a name like ZURB they are either Web 2.0 experts or an alien race hell bent on enslaving us. Either way - cool). The article, Image Uploads with 100% ... [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3FFCB280-F43C-9D3C-0FBE2C2716D5904F ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2010-03-09T09:54:37+10:00 Right now you may be asking yourself 'Who is Kevin Boss?' and/or 'What is 'it' that he gets?' I will get back to that in a bit, but let me give you some 'back story'. I have not talked about it on my blog, but shortly after Christmas last year my father was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer. He has been getting regular chemo therapy (his last round is this week) and since the diagnosis, we have made several attempts to go visit and each was thwarted by illness or bad weather. This http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3E616625-EADC-5F1E-547B4451AEFCC6DB ColdFusionMX Boyzoid 2010-03-09T02:25:22+10:00 The Muse is a geek to be sure but he's also eclectic in the breadth of his knowledge. In between banter about object instantiation and thread management I manage to go to the movies with my wife and kids. I even read a book now and then. My 19 yea... [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3E3503B7-A39B-8081-D03941C54849BB41 ColdFusionMX Mark Kruger 2010-03-09T01:36:54+10:00 When I first starting playing with jQuery events, a lot of what I learned about the jQuery Event object was through trial and error. While I could be remembering incorrectly, I used to find that the jQuery documentation was good at describing the event handlers, but not so good at describing the event object; as such, while I knew that the jQuery event object was a standardized event object, I was never 100% sure which parts of it I was supposed to be using. ... Read More » http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3E2C241C-9269-67EB-AA4077E817630FEE ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2010-03-09T01:27:12+10:00 I'm very happy to announce that I'll be speaking at this years Scotch on the Rocks conference in London. This will be my first Scotch and I'm pretty darn excited to be invited. I'll be speaking on ColdFusion Builder (looks like my session topic isn'... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3DBF415B-FEC1-1980-145AAB3F11654EAE ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2010-03-08T23:28:16+10:00 I moved offices and residences recently and took advantage of the opportunity to sell off a bunch of stuff. There were a handful of useful lessons that came from this experience and I wanted to post them here for the benefit of anyone else considering hosting a sale. Maintain a page of thumbnails and post [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3C680909-92EF-07B8-4E51470423654471 ColdFusionMX Sean Tierney 2010-03-08T17:13:23+10:00 I'm really looking forward to going to 360|Flex. When I've gone to conferences in the past, I've taken my laptop along, and this conference will be no exception. However, my plan is to only use my laptop during the hands-on session I am signed up for on Sunday. The rest of the time, I'll be "winging it," with only my phone. There's only one problem with doing that, and that's the fact that I am not yet comfortable enough with the on-screen keyboard on my new Android phone. Clearly, I http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3C66B31E-F36D-E4A9-0A2F6F4A15636070 Flex InsideRIA 2010-03-08T17:11:55+10:00 Mark Doherty (Adobe) has created a tool using Adobe AIR that allows developers to create SIS packages for Symbian devices. It currently targets Flash Lite 3.x for Nokia S60 devices, and the tool runs under both Windows and Mac because it’s an AIR app. Mark has all the details on his blog. Here’s a demo [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=3C66A0BF-B96F-B540-4325F2D3E98ED046 FlashMX Scott Janousek 2010-03-08T17:11:51+10:00