The ColdFusion Weekly Podcast,
hosted by Matt Woodward, has a new episode. The topic this time is Flex
Frameworks, and I am on it! I talk about the soon-to-be-released Mate
framework and my presentation at cf.Objective(), which is rapidly
approaching.
While I am looking at the mere 7 billable hours for the whole week, I can't help wondering why I enjoy developing open source software so much. A quick recap of the week reveals: making the distribution packages and testing the upgrade scripts for the new release of Mango Blog; fixing last minutes bugs encountered while testing the packages; answering questions in Mango's forums; making a new example and writing a tutorial for the soon-to-be-released Mate framework; writing missing documentation for Mate; working on the cf.Objective() presentation about Mate; preparing the audio files for the ColdFusion Weekly roundtable about Flex frameworks... Mmmh... Can you spot the pattern here? Most of my time was spent working on personal, open source projects.
read more Category: Miscellaneous |We are delighted to have Doug McCune coming down from San Francisco to present at OC Flex this Thursday.
Besides being an exceptional Flex developer, Doug is one of the main contributors of FlexLib, a collection of open source Flex components and libraries. It is no surprise then that he will be talking about taking advantage of open source ActionScript libraries to use in your own projects.
The fact is that there is a lot out there that you might not know it exists, or even if you did, you might not know how to use it. Doug will be giving examples of how to use these libraries and even combine them into cool applications. You can find more information at OC Flex's website and Doug's post about the meeting.
This is a meeting not to miss!
Category: Flex |
It seems that 2008 will bring a lot traveling for us. First, I will present a session at cf.Objective() in early May and then I will present at WebManiacs towards the end of May. We also hope to attend 360 Flex in Atlanta and most likely 360 Flex in SoCal closer to home.
read more Category: Flex | Miscellaneous |I added some transitions and a progress bar to our Photoshow example.
For the transitions, I wanted the previous image to fade out and the new image to fade in. But in the original code, the image was binding to the currently selected image, so whenever the selected image changed (by clicking on next or previous buttons), the source of the image would change. The biggest problem with this is that if I changed the currently selected image as soon as the user would click the buttons, the image would change without waiting for the fade out to complete. One of the main changes made to the code is that before I can change the source of the image, I need to wait until the previous image has completely faded out. I do this by using the effectEnd event of the Fade effect to know when this happens, and only then make the change in the image source.
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