Create and Save a drawing with Flex and ColdFusion

October 13, 2009

I've created a prototype Flex 3 application which captures a drawing (or signature) that a user draws and saves it to the server using ColdFusion and Flex Remoting. Read more »

RIA Unleashed for a mere $30

July 29, 2009

In case you missed it, Brian Rinaldi has announced "RIA Unleashed", a one day conference in Boston. The event will take place on Friday November the 13th and will have 3 tracks focusing on ColdFusion, Flex and AIR. Read more »

Flex Calling Methods of a Loaded Flex Movie

May 08, 2009

I'm currently building a Flex application that dynamically loads in another Flex application and calls it's methods. When I started building it that seemed like it should be a pretty straight forward thing to do (and maybe there is a better way!). Read more »

JSON String to object in Flex

April 29, 2009

I'm storing JSON in my database. I then get it via a ColdFusion query and a RemoteObject call. The trouble I had was that Flex just treats the JSON string as a string. What I needed to be able to do was get Flex to evaluate the JSON string and convert it into an object. Read more »

Sharing a Flex project with a team

April 28, 2009

Recently I've been working on a Flex project with another developer. We use SVN and have been committing the entire Flex project to the repository. The problem with this is that any compiler/custom settings you have break as they are stored as part of the project. Read more »

Flex RemoteObject if ColdFusion isn't on your workstation

April 10, 2009

Here's a quick tip if you write Flex applications that talk to ColdFusion via RemoteObject calls and you don't have ColdFusion installed on your workstation. Read more »

Consuming XML in Flex

February 17, 2009

I've been taking my first baby steps in the word of Flex and wanted to try building a Flex front end to a quiz that consumed a webservice which returns XML. Read more »