If you are a Flex developer, you are probably aware of what FlexSpy is. FlexSpy is an inspection tool for Flex applications, similar to what Firebug is for HTML applications. FlexSpy is distributed as a .swc file (Flex Library file) which you can simply put under your projects’ “libs” folder and it will become available to use in your project. Once you trigger FlexSpy , you can inspect and change the properties and styles of the visual components in your Flex application. Pretty useful tool, makes life very easy for a developer. More »
I haven’t really blogged about this before, but approx. 1.5 years ago, I decided to quit my permanent job and start taking up only contract roles. I was a bit worried about this whole contracting thing, when I initially decided to take this route. I was concerned that what if I don’t get a project for an extended period of time etc and all those worries that any newbie would have. But it has been good so far.
I have been getting different roles throughout, not necessarily without a gap, though. My main skills are ColdFusion and Flex/AIR and out of the 3 contracts I have done in the past 1.5 years, one was purely ColdFusion, one was purely Flex and the third one was a mixture of both. It takes time to find contracts and there is almost always a little gap in when you finish one and start another one.
Coming to the reason of this post, I would like to announce that I have managed to setup my ltd company’s website . Yes, that’s the name – Ansh Consulting. I have tried to keep the website a simple and informational one. That’s how I like things to be – simple and straight forward. Feel free to have a look and feel free to do any constructive criticism as well. And without a question, feel free to send in any project queries that you would like to hire us for. No job too big or small.
I was stuck on this issue few days back, when I happened to have more than 100 errors in my project and Eclipse “Problems” window was only showing me the top 100. It took me a while to figure out where to change this , so I thought I would blog it.
In your Eclipse IDE Preferences (whether its Eclipse, Flex Builder or Adobe ColdFusion Builder), any Eclipse based IDE, you will find this setting under Java->Compiler->Building. Thats where you can change this setting. More »
I gave a telephonic interview yesterday (yes, I am looking for new contract roles these days!) and this question came up. The interviewer asked the difference between Casting with Braces and Casting with the “AS” operator in Flex. I thought I could write a little example to demonstrate the difference between the two. More »
I have been using the excellent jQuery Validation plugin in my latest project. It provides all the basic rules that you will need for validating your form. However, I had a form with 2 username fields on it and the requirement was that they should not be equal to each other. I guess this is not a very common scenario, which is why the “notEqualTo” rule was not included in the original ruleset of the plugin. There is a “equalTo” rule already, though.
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This post of mine is coming after a long time, I know. The reason for this has been lack of time, being very busy with other things etc. I will try to be more frequent here hereafer.
Anyways, in a recent project, I had the requirement to show Twitter statuses on the homepage of the website I was working on. The first thing I did was, went straight to RiaForge and searched for any Twitter related CFC’s. I did find a couple of them and they all looked pretty good. However, since I only wanted to get the stautses and not the other fancy stuff like direct messages etc, I thought there must be an easier way of doing it.
That’s when I thought if the statuses are available as RSS feeds, I am done. CFFEED can do everything for me.
<cfset feedurl = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15172848.rss" />
<cffeed source="#feedurl#" properties="statusmeta" query="statuses" />
Thats it. The code above gives me a feed of my status updates in a ColdFusion query, which I can now use to display as I want. There are too many columns in the query with lots of useful information. I ended up using just the “rsslink” and “title” columns as those were the only 2 I wanted for my requirement.
Its nice to know that Twitter publishes these rss feeds and even nicer that I can use this in one line of code.
Its been a couple of months I haven’t really posted anything at all here. It has been a really busy period for me. I have taken up a new Flex role and the project is quite interesting and demanding. I spend literally all my time on this project and finishing off some other commitments in any extra time I get.
I have got a lot of useful information I have learned in the past 2 months and I hope to blog about them pretty soon. And yeah, I have been following all the ColdFusion Builder and CF9 related posts, lately. Pretty cool Stuff! I will be back in the blogosphere soon, guys!
Happy Coding!
I have been informed that as a celebration of completing 5 years, Packt Publishing are giving away free ebooks to everyone interested.
I am just spreading the word here. Below is the original press release.
Five years ago, Packt published its first book, Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management. In the years that followed, Packt has published over 200 books on many different subjects and technologies.
We think it’s important to take the time to celebrate and thank the people who have made this possible. Therefore as our way of saying thank you for your support over the last five years, we have decided that over the next few weeks, Packt will be offering new and existing customers’ five exclusive offers.
The PEAR Installer Manifesto is one of the eBooks that we are offering to our readers. This book shows users the power of this code management and deployment system to revolutionize their PHP application development.
To download a free PDF copy of this book, simply visit http://www.packtpub.com/account and login to your account, or create one if you donít already have one, and scroll down to your download area. Here you will see a link to the eBook, which you can download as many times as you like. In addition to this book, you can also download other eBooks on various technologies for free.
You can find more information on this offer by visiting http://www.packtpub.com/article/celebrate-with-us-as-packt-turns-5
I have been working on this project for the last few months and we have been successful in launching this on time as per the schedule.
The URL is http://www.mazdausedcarlocator.co.uk/ – It has got both a Flex version and an HTML version. I personally love the Rich Experience (Flex version) as it provides a really smooth interface for anyone who is looking for a used Mazda car. The HTML version is no less either.
For those who are interested, this is all ColdFusion and Flex with some jQuery love attached to it.
I would like to thank the whole team at 2ndByte for being supportive throughout and making this happen. It was fun to be part of this project.
As part of my daily journey to different sites, I tried opening rubyonrails.org 20 mins ago and found this!!!
I immediately googled for this and found this TechChrunch Article.
Wow, how can someone let that happen ? Amazing!
