http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2010-02-09T22:45:42+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 A quick preface to this entries core message about getting involved to help improve the quality of the next releases of the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0: Adobe’s Flash Player has been getting a lot of press lately. Mainly in regards to HTML5, the Apple iPad (and its closed garden), performance on the Mac [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B2876667-D367-2FBE-F5C7CEF30C454DA5 FlashMX Feasible Impossibilities 2010-02-09T22:40:03+10:00 Internationalized Domain Names or IDN are domain names that contain non ascii characters. It's important to know how to handle these in an application because domain names themselves can actually only contain ascii. Punycode is the way the unicode characters gets encoded into ascii characters in a domain name. Thankfully python has an encoding language IDNA [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B28756B7-0452-9A56-87301FCF31FBF75F ColdFusionMX Jehiah Czebotar 2010-02-09T22:39:59+10:00 I’m very proud to announce that the second version of KitchenSync has arrived! What started as a labour of love about 3 years ago has finally gotten its first much needed upgrade. Just about everything in this version is newer and more streamlined. The entire system for greater simplicity and practical functionality. This version will not [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B2859BB9-A69E-EC05-A28DA2FE84502942 FlashMX Mims Wright 2010-02-09T22:38:05+10:00 We built this component some time ago for use on a gaming/gambling site. We required a way to alert the user that something important was going on in one of their games, but we didn’t want to use a popup, blocking the user from their current interaction. This was because the user may have been in [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B280FE92-BC03-8F6A-F6B0D01DE6F44E29 FlashMX Tinks Blog 2010-02-09T22:33:03+10:00 When developing applications, often you need to set up some dummy data to test things without using real backend services. One particularly useful technique is described by Freeman and Pryce in their book »Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests«: Using the builder pattern to construct complex test data and improve code readability. Let’s say you [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B280A343-C16F-D7A3-CFF09D2B506CE96F FlashMX b-log 2010-02-09T22:32:39+10:00 Ted Patrick has this post about Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0. http://onflash.org/ted/2010/02/improve-flash-101-and-air-20.php These platforms are in beta and our support is needed to use them in the real world and report any problems we may find. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B2801933-C5A7-2682-E4FD6AE960D72C98 Flex Remus Stratulat 2010-02-09T22:32:04+10:00 At our January L.A. Flex meeting, Michael Fretz showed us an eclipse plugin for embedding fonts called MojoFont. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I post good stuff like this! WPFP(document).ready(function() { //load player $f("saiweb_6ef9ec2ec62210312014926740e5cac7", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", { plugins: { cont http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27FD8FE-92AC-DD34-42D6C9446E2C405E FlashMX Tom Bray 2010-02-09T22:31:48+10:00 At our January L.A. Flex meeting, George McKinney demonstrated some examples using the Flex-Ajax bridge. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I post good stuff like this! WPFP(document).ready(function() { //load player $f("saiweb_bc13a876f4d7df45102808f89c9a6de5", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", { plugins: { controls: { http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27FD90D-0AAD-7AC1-E2F855D6D50DEB79 FlashMX Tom Bray 2010-02-09T22:31:48+10:00 At our January L.A. Flex meeting, longtime member Michael Allman talked about his approach to Flex application architecture. WPFP(document).ready(function() { //load player $f("saiweb_ebae66f7dfccc99c5da2a350dc4c0f10", "http://www.tombray.com/wp-content/plugins/word-press-flow-player/flowplayer/gpl/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf", { plugins: { controls: { buttonOverColor: ', sliderColor: ', bufferColor: ', [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27FD91D-CA8A-EF3E-A97D95322EB2175E FlashMX Tom Bray 2010-02-09T22:31:48+10:00 At our January L.A. Flex meeting, Cory McMahon showed us how to write custom filters in Flex, demonstrated some PixelBender examples, and talked about High Dynamic Range Imaging in Flex. If you’re in the L.A. area, be sure to check out our meetup group.  Follow me on twitter @tombray so you know when I [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27FD92D-B577-BDD9-3EC8F6BF32A12CFF FlashMX Tom Bray 2010-02-09T22:31:48+10:00 Word in the twitterverse is that Adobe gave their evangelists some new toys today. Yes, that’s right, the HTC Nexus One with Flash Player 10.1 beta! When will the rest of us see this beta? Hopefully, very soon. Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27E9514-DD71-E9B1-59D9EAC075630F0A Flex Rich Tretola 2010-02-09T22:30:25+10:00 There has been a great deal of talk about quality of the Flash Player lately in relation to discussions on ‘the device that shall remain nameless’. In my opinion, considering the fact that the Flash Player is backwards compatible with 10 versions, has two complex virtual machines in it, and the fact that it has [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27E3197-DF75-4ED9-1488D343BAFE7056 AIR Daniel Dura 2010-02-09T22:29:59+10:00 For my Advanced Database Structures course, I have a lecture on non-relational databases. Right now, it’s a little too abstract for my tastes—we talk mainly about OLAP and MDX, but it’s hard to give concrete examples without setting up an OLAP cube. We’re somewhat constrained by our learning environment: instead of using a [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27E28AE-967F-C3DE-2A4562DE873A54F2 ColdFusionMX Rick Osborne 2010-02-09T22:29:57+10:00 I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload fields without relying on the built-in type="file" field. Be sure to check out the new multiple uploads demo as well as the updated FAQs page. A big "thank you!" goes to Byron Raines for providing the use case for the multiple uploads (on http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27D8876-D75E-5296-383EEE52C4F5F361 ColdFusionMX Matt Quackenbush 2010-02-09T22:29:16+10:00 Examine an accessible, animated presentation and learn best practices for building your own. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27D71C2-CE96-CC65-9E45A0E0AC14894A FlashMX MM Flash 2010-02-09T22:29:10+10:00 The new version of Firefox broke my FCKEditor! They didn‘t do it on purpose I’m sure, but it did, in fact, break it. I am using what I consider the standard implementation in ColdFusion (that does not come bundled with ColdFusion). I updated my Firefox to the most recent version (3.6) which [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27D34D8-0863-0F18-E091AF8B0EC3757E ColdFusionMX Rey Nacho 2010-02-09T22:28:55+10:00 Generates a password the length you specify. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27CB4AC-0A19-1965-4CD6A39441B5014A ColdFusionMX cflib.org 2010-02-09T22:28:22+10:00 Compares a date/time string and validates it against the RFC 3339 - Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps protocol. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27CB4BB-C560-3BAD-592661FEB12E2447 ColdFusionMX cflib.org 2010-02-09T22:28:22+10:00 Joshua Davis and Branden Hall joined us to talk about their latest ActionScript Library/Framework/Ideas called HYPE. We were also joined by Liz Fredrick, Kevin Schmidt, Zach Stepek, and Leif Wells. Listen to this week's podcast (m4a or mp3). You can also subscribe to the RIA Radio podcast in iTunes. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C930A-B392-D8A9-7568E81E7D2F7A15 Flex InsideRIA 2010-02-09T22:28:13+10:00 This excerpt is from Chapter 4 (Spark containers, view states, effects, and styling) of Hello! Flex 4, by Peter Armstrong. This excerpt is published with permission. Session 18 - Effects and Animation - Hello! Flex 4 In this workshop session, you'll learn the basics of effects. While Flex applications already look very nice out of the box, another benefit they offer is that they can leverage the capabilities of the Flash Player. (When writing a marketing sentence like that, I guess it's app http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C931A-97DB-086A-96AD844E82B7C31A Flex InsideRIA 2010-02-09T22:28:13+10:00 Now that we have already had the Flash on the iPad discussion, let's take a different look in discussing the iPad. (Please don't start the Flash iPad flame war again) Will you buy one and if so why? Would you be more interested in a tablet product if it was running the full version of OS X? What effect do you think it will have on RIA development? Are you more interested in developing applications for iPad than you were for iPhone? http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C9329-E932-E9D3-E30F2D7007020FCC Flex InsideRIA 2010-02-09T22:28:13+10:00 As you are probably aware ColdFusion allows you to use the integrated J2EE sessions that are provided as part of the J2EE server (by enabling the Use J2EE session variables setting in ColdFusion Administrator). When you enable this setting, a cookie called JSESSIONID is used to store the session identifier. One of the drawbacks to session cookies in ColdFusion is that there is little control over the cookies that are created, you typically need to set the cookies in your onSessionStart event me http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C4A0B-AA52-C288-11D9A75B9760FB23 ColdFusionMX CFDEV Blog 2010-02-09T22:27:54+10:00 In case you have been living under a rock like me, it seems the selected attribute works with bound cfselect lists.Form<cfparam name="form.foodID" default="0"><cfform method="post" action="#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#"> Favorite Food: <cfselect name="foodID" value="foodID" display="FoodName" selected="#form.foodID#" bind="cfc:Food.getFood()" bindOnLoad="true" /> http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C3087-EB77-9ADB-E4F5EF7064C5899B ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2010-02-09T22:27:48+10:00 A question about saving the output of cfpdfform to a variable came up on the adobe forums recently. As I have been doing some testing with CF9 + CFPDF this week, I suggested using the name attribute. Well I was a bit surprised when someone casually mentioned that cfpdfform does not have a documented name attribute. Huh? Scratching my head I checked the documentation and sure enough name was not one of the listed attributes. It is documented for cfpdf, but not cfpdfform. So I re-checked my code a http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C3097-AD6D-8AB4-D71C02B01BEDA9ED ColdFusionMX cfSearching 2010-02-09T22:27:48+10:00 They were finally able to produce and post the video of one of my presentations at Unite 2009. This one covered much of the iPhone Trench Run project in detail. I went through the entire project practically. http://unity3d.com/support/resources/unite-presentations/bringing-star-wars-to-the-iphone Enjoy! http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C24CF-B69C-C50C-C145B18D40AB2AD8 FlashMX John Grden 2010-02-09T22:27:45+10:00 Ever watch a sporting event (Saints ROCK btw – loved that game!!) and hear either the announcer or one of the players/coaches say something like: “yeah, you know when you’ve got people in the league like the Payton Mannings, the Drew Breeses, the Walter Paytons, the Joe Montana’s…” Does that drive anyone else nuts? THERE’S ONLY [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B27C24DF-955C-2E0D-B32ACF817D535594 FlashMX John Grden 2010-02-09T22:27:45+10:00 This is just a quick video of the snow that's falling here in Nashville, TN. It's the second snow we've gotten in about nine days and I'm loving it! http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0A5E61F-D8E6-EEF9-958A63B542F0218C ColdFusionMX Aaron West 2010-02-09T13:54:07+10:00 I’ve finally posted my instructions for getting ColdFusion 9 up and running on VirtualBox!  It took me a few times to work through the process and get everything working (and documented) and at one point I forgot the password on the VM image and had to start over again.  Oooops. Documentation is now on my wiki:  [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0823363-9FF2-C60A-3B5E196C559001A1 ColdFusionMX Jim Priest 2010-02-09T13:15:07+10:00 There’s no denying that Apple did a terrific job with the iPhone. After walking around with PDAs and smartphones, Apple really changed the market and it took a while for competitors to catch up. I honestly never thought I would think about replacing my iPhone any time soon. Even with all its obvious flaws… But [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0822BD2-A540-BEE5-6FE61A7D039837A3 Flex Serge Jespers 2010-02-09T13:15:05+10:00 Adobe engineering is headed into the final stretch of development of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. We need community help to identify quality issues with your deployed and in-development content. While both Flash and AIR are tested extensively internally, every beta we receive valuable feedback from the Flash community and beyond. Here is how you can get involved: Download and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0822BE1-D7F6-CDA0-AE82E22C4B4F3D2B Flex Serge Jespers 2010-02-09T13:15:05+10:00 Here's another tricky issue when working with collections of child objects that are stored as structs. Just like last time, we'll look at a Department object with a one-to-many property that holds a collection of Users which is stored as a struct. The difference this time is that we'll use a numeric property as the key to the struct, rather than a string property: component persistent="true" output="false" entityname="Department" { property name="DeptId" fieldtype="id" generator="nati http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081E9A8-05FA-BFA8-76A59380380C43CD ColdFusionMX Bob Silverberg 2010-02-09T13:14:49+10:00 The startup Flash of Genius who develops educational software recently got a letter from Apple telling the company that "it would be appropriate to remove" the reference to Andriod in the product description of their iPhone app in the apple store. [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081EC48-EC2F-81B0-F828241050F555F1 ColdFusionMX Gary Gilbert 2010-02-09T13:14:49+10:00 Earlier today we went to sign the agreement and left a deposit on the new Project Cocoon Multimedia apartments/office space in Colas Nagar, Pondicherry. We’ve now got ourselves a nice three story building that gives us enough space to have client meetings, organize training events and even have freelance developers over to work on projects as [...] No related posts. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081DD83-0106-18C6-624FD310C1ECB046 FlashMX Peter Elst 2010-02-09T13:14:45+10:00 It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081C111-A78D-17C6-3BEF65ABAE18C156 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2010-02-09T13:14:38+10:00 We have been long term fans of Román and the fantastic demos and samples that he puts together, usually involving CSS goodness. We messed up the other week though when we linked to his work on a scrolling coke can. I do these postings as a labor of love, and since Ajaxian isn't my day [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081C121-A9B1-FCF1-F03EBD0EF29E2C41 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2010-02-09T13:14:38+10:00 After an entertaining introduction Roberto Bicchierai gives us a pretty comprehensive review of available JavaScript grid components. He divides the list of JavaScript grid editor into: data-driven, light editing implementations emphasizing “editing agility”, and JavaScript Excel spreadsheet clones. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081BD87-9527-80F3-1481DFC05D5CA74A DreamweaverMX DigitalMediaMinute 2010-02-09T13:14:37+10:00 My new Adobe Developer Center article is now available. This article demonstrates how to build an application that uses Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server (FMIS) as an editing module for live events without requiring any DVR features on a content-delivery network (CDN). http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B081A5D9-C0CF-CBB7-A9106C0FE857D499 FlashMX flashstreamworks.com 2010-02-09T13:14:31+10:00 AllAboutSymbian, the AAS Insight 104 podcast is available. New firmware for the N97 mini (v11), X6 (v12.x), 5730 (v200), and E52 (V32). OTA firmware timings question New Ovi Store Client Greystripe and Ovi Store Ovi Maps and 1.4 million downloads Symbian goes open source Alessandro http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0818502-FA24-8025-25EE643E329A634F FlashMX Alessandro Pace 2010-02-09T13:14:23+10:00 Rudy posted a list of networking events during next week Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. Going to attend several of those events. Mobile Sunday Barcelona 2010 GoMoNews Blender WipJam Party & Swedish Beer WipJam MWC DeviceDays Alessandro http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0818512-E5E5-69C1-3F67FA93A9AE4FF1 FlashMX Alessandro Pace 2010-02-09T13:14:23+10:00 Via Biskero, looks like that Kero Mobile AppStore application/platform reached 2 Million ads impressions for the platform and 1 Million ads impressions for the AppStore. Also some more information: 2 M platform mobile ads impressions 1 M AppStore mobile ads impressions More then 300 apps Mobile Ads: AdMob, BuzzCity, InMobi, MoJiva, Smaato LBS for content and ads Rich Mobile Ads Nokia OVI [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B0818522-B026-43E5-920D7FBE0222A64E FlashMX Alessandro Pace 2010-02-09T13:14:23+10:00 This afternoon I was working on a set of persistent entities called event, eventtype, eventstatus, and eventpriority. Event is the "core" entity with hooks to status, type, and priority. When everything was done I whipped up a quick test: ... [More] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AFC36F73-9DF4-C392-C2F1B926F2A80263 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2010-02-09T09:46:45+10:00 This morning, I was looking at a tutorial on how to extend built-in Javacript objects by altering the Prototype of native Javacript classes. In doing this, you can add your own methods to Javascript String and Array instances (for example). The down side to this approach is that this affects every new and existing instance of the altered data types (all instances of a given type share a common prototype). This got me thinking about Javascript object extension in general, and I wondered, rathe http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AF48B1E1-A057-0C71-066309919D5C1EF1 ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2010-02-09T07:32:41+10:00 Last week, when I was working on my jQuery Photo Tagger plugin (for Flickr-style photo annotation) , I was using CFLock to create thread-safe cache updates in the ColdFusion aspect of the code. As I was doing that, it occurred to me - I wasn't 100% sure what would happen if the timeout (indicated by the CFLock tag) was exceeded and no error was thrown? In the CFLock tag, you can use the ThrowOnTimeout attrib ... Read More » http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AF48B1F1-C16E-A19A-F3916E421B1BB744 ColdFusionMX Ben Nadel 2010-02-09T07:32:41+10:00 Sorry to yell (well, we don't have to assume all exclamation marks are equivalent to yelling) but this email came in to me this morning and it is very troubling for me: I have a question for you about varScoper and CF9. As I understand it, in CF... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AEF7BD45-91EC-0DE7-5243991C6E7B54C9 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2010-02-09T06:04:16+10:00 My apologies to those following my site via RSS feed; I had a snafu with wordpress after upgrading a few months ago, and it caused my RSS feeds to break. if you are reading this, everything is working fine now. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AE2ACF8A-046A-B521-958AAFC69F1EF00D ColdFusionMX Jehiah Czebotar 2010-02-09T02:20:26+10:00 At bit.ly today, we launched a new product called bitly.tv, and it is part of our new labs.bit.ly project. bitly.tv it’s a great productivity waster if you are ever bored, but there are also interesting videos out on the web that it helps you find. Here are a few of the awesome videos i’ve found [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AE2ACF9A-9321-F1B4-FAA8A7BEB80C5ED9 ColdFusionMX Jehiah Czebotar 2010-02-09T02:20:26+10:00 As I (slowly) try to recover from yesterday, I thought I'd send out a quick reminder to folks that the latest betas of both AIR 2.0 and Flash 10.1 are available. AIR 2.0 should be an amazing release. I highly recommend catching up on Christian C... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AE04F887-05F7-6A26-F6C970A60E32FF54 ColdFusionMX Ray Camden 2010-02-09T01:39:06+10:00 Do you use Flash CS4? Then you may have noticed that the documentation requires that you are online. Doc is a free AIR application that can index and display any ASDoc generated documentation in a snappy, searchable desktop application. If you've been looking for a better solution to looking up the AS3 reference, look no further. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AD43D133-D4FC-AEFB-48A7F89B514FA5B6 FlashMX FlashMagazine.Com 2010-02-08T22:08:07+10:00 A common question about 3D engines is how to use them with the Flex framework. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to build your own Away3D Flex Component that will play nicely when the user changes the size of their browser or other components. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AD222861-0704-4F7A-951563F23672D961 FlashMX FlashMagazine.Com 2010-02-08T21:31:21+10:00 If you use Ruby on Rails, you’ve probably heard by now about the release of the Rails 3.0 betayesterday. There’s been a lot leading up to this release, so naturally most of the rails world is eager to jump in and give it a try. Saturday morning is a great time to get started, so [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=AC3F9B11-EFB7-6AE5-4ABC68CF5E83E9EE ColdFusionMX Adam Fortuna 2010-02-08T17:23:54+10:00