Month: September 2011

48 Hour Challenge with filmSPARK

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A few weeks ago, during our monthly meeting, a member of The RTP “Let’s Make a Movie” Meetup group mentioned the SPARKcon Festival coming up in Raleigh.  SPARKcon has been going on for 6 years and last year they added a 48 Hour Film Challenge to their filmSPARK.  At first I was a little hesitant about doing the challenge for a few reasons.  One, the 48 Hour Film Project, cost over $100 to enter, so I didn’t know how much this would cost.  Second, it was very short notice, so I didn’t now how many people I could get to Continue reading 48 Hour Challenge with filmSPARK→

Flex Test Drive in about an hour

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According to the Flex Test Drive site, you can “Build an application in an hour”.  While that is definitely true for a simple application, I would say it takes a little bit longer in real life.  I started working through the Test Drive demo using the videos, which probably run less than an hour.  Since I am familiar with Flex/Flash Builder, it was easy enough for me to have the video running in the background while I built the application.  There were several times that I had to switch back to the video to get a better understanding of what Continue reading Flex Test Drive in about an hour→

Zend AMF and Flash Builder

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While I was pondering creating the Flex/Flash test application for the Demo site, I ran across Flex Test Drive.  I remember reading it before and couldn’t remember why I didn’t go through with the example….then I tried connecting to the php web service.  The Flex Test Drive gives you three options for a server:  Java, PHP and ColdFusion.  I don’t have a ColdFusion or Java option on my hosted website, so PHP was the way to go.  I also didn’t want to bother installing a web server locally, because I want to post my examples on my site.  Because of Continue reading Zend AMF and Flash Builder→

ArrayCollection in an ArrayCollection

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At work I am trying to display a bunch of information retrieved from a web services.  The data has a header table (top item) and then supporting item tables (sub items).  My current data only brings back one top item, but I have set it up to display multiple top items using a HorizontalList.  I created a custom component based on a Form, which allows me to easily display header and values.  In the future, I can probably use the form for inputs, but for now it is just displaying.  I am also using an Accordion container to display each Continue reading ArrayCollection in an ArrayCollection→

Adobe BrowserLab

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I decided to take a glance at the widgets I put in earlier today and stumbled onto a nice little tool over at Adobe.  In Dreamweaver you have a few options for viewing your work to determine how it will look in the real world.  The first method is to use a split view, which gives you one frame of code and another frame of design.  The obvious benefit is that you can quickly find your code problems before sending it up to the site.  However, as you notice from the image below, it might not actually be what  you Continue reading Adobe BrowserLab→

Dreamweaver Widgets

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Dreamweaver has a Widget Browser for checking out the free and paid Dreamweaver widgets in the Adobe Exchange.  The benefit of the Widget Browser is that you can easily see which ones you have installed and what is available without having to go to the website. When you decide on using one, then you can use the Widget Browser to configure the widget, so some success.  It all depends on the developer as to how useful the widget configuration is and customizing your selected widget.  I downloaded and installed the Aqua Button, the Weather Updater and the Twitter widgets. The Continue reading Dreamweaver Widgets→