A new post at the new blog.

Creating a DragImage from your UIComponent

I will stop doing these duplicate posts by the end of the month, please subscribe to the new blog...

Thank you.

Axel

A new post at the new blog.

CustomRichTextEditor with XHTML text

I will stop doing these duplicate posts by the end of the month, please subscribe to the new blog...

Thank you.

Axel

Switching from this blog over to http://axelscript.com

I have a new entry please click here to read.

I'm officially starting the bleed of blog entries from this blog, and toward mid to end march I will probably stop posting on this blog all together.

please view the new post at http://axelscript.com

please subscribe, I'll probably be blogging more on the new blog because wordpress has great save features, so I can save temporary posts, and come back at a later time to finish them... which is the main reason for switching blogs...

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360flex is going to Europe, please checkout http://www.360conferences.com/ for details. I believe it's next month or something like that, at least thats what tom said up on the mic this morning.

360flex is an absolute blast, it's great company, full of intelligent people, and I couldn't ask for more of a conference to go to. If your a flash/flex developer, and or want to get in to flex, this is the conference for you.

Thanks to everyone that attended my session this morning it was great! and it was great to be in a room with such knowledgeable people. Everything went fantastic. Here is my presentation zip file.

360flex Preso

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We are wrapping up with this great charting application at cfwebtools, and we get a call from a customer that says our data is wrong....

We listen to them, and debug, and for some reason we just can't quite see the same thing he see's... On top of that, no one else is having the problem, but the fact is that, he has showed us screen shots, he's duplicated on Four pc's of his own, and he's talked to 10 friends telling us that our data is wrong, and that there is mismatched days in our chart.

The problem:

When he was bringing up the charting application, the charts showed up successfully, but when you ta ke a closer look, and you know your stuff about Financial Charting applications, you know what your looking for, and you know it with GREAT detail. So this guy, tells us our data is wrong, and pretty much with all of his friends proved to us SOMETHING was going wrong, but we couldn't duplicate it.

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Lately I've been super busy, I've been getting some good hours for side work, and have been working on this really awesome charting application it's not customizable to the extent of StockFetcher, but it's cool in it's own right.

Everything is driven and built dynamically based off of an xml file. The cool part of the app, is that in the xml I can specify the timeline I want to show, and customize all of these things called studies. Studies are calculations like On Balance Volume, Moving Average, and Double Smooth Stochastics. I have no clue what any of those things mean to a financial stock person, but looking at these graphs means something... pretty much whether or not to buy or sell stocks is what i presume.

Java, Coldfusion, and Flex marriage

We are using a customized java library for the calculations, and that helped out a lot. So we are leveraging three technologies here, Java, Coldfusion, Flex. It's a great combonation, we're not accessing any java directly with flex, but through coldfusion we are instantiating java objects in order to complete the calculations.

The Slider issue

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Over late 2007 I've been blessed with the privilege to work with flex full time, and do a lot of great projects. I've loved blogging about all of it, and I love to be able to share the knowledge...

I decided to bid for a speaking position at 360 flex this time around, after missing the past two. Luckily it all went through, I'll be speaking on "Understanding the component Lifecycle".

Here is some info on 360 flex.

360|Flex Atlanta - February 25-27, 2008

This 3-day conference is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from Adobe and community speakers. Sunday before the conference we'll be offering an all day Flex 101 session, included in the price of registration. That's right, a pre-conference all day training session on Flex. 360|Flex is the premiere Flex and AIR conference. We were the first Flex conference and we're still growing and getting better. Don't miss out, only $480 for an individual or $1500 for a 4-person team. More details can be found at http://360flex.com

360|Flex Atlanta, February 25-27, is the place to learn about Flex and AIR from Adobe and community speakers. Included in the price of registration is a free pre-conf, all day training session on Flex 101. We're the premiere Flex and AIR conference. $480 for one or $1500 for a 4-person team. Visit http://360flex.com

Flex XML MP3 Player Update

I finally opened this puppy back up and updated it, added a new great attribute

• podcast_mode=true (or false)

Now you can use it for podcasts!

please check out the google code for the new version.

http://code.google.com/p/xmlmp3player/

The newest version of cfeclipse runs on the newest version of eclipse (version 3.3) and I came across a link looking up some errors, and found this link.

and thought it might come in useful at a later date... then I could have eclipse, cfeclipse and flex builder back together like I used to....

http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/howto-flexbuilder2/