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Changing direction, code wise that is….

James — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:18:01 +0000

Well because of school taking up much of my free time, ok most of it, I haven’t gotten any farther with Flex programming. This seems to be a good thing since the main reason I was working on it was for mobile programming, and Adobe has decided Flash on the mobile is a dead end. So I did some reassessing of things and have decided to go a little different direction. For web work and mobile back ends out on the web I have decided to go with Ruby on Rails, for mobile I will take a two pronged approach. First prong will be learning how to use PhoneGap and tune up my Jquery mobile skills. Second prong will be to work on learning Rhomobile, a Ruby on Rails system for developing mobile apps. This should work well since I will need to learn Rails anyway. I am going to work through the Ruby on Rails tutorial over the winter break, I had started it a while back but classes got in the way, so I will start over and get it done over the next few weeks….

First Flex Book, Half Way Through

James — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 08:21:04 +0000

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I just finished the ninth chapter of the Training from the Source book which puts me half way through. Of course a lot of the first part was refresher, using Flash Builder, starting a project, View states, Using controls and so forth. Eventually it started to get into some areas I was not so familiar with in Flex such as the Event Model, Using XML Data, E4X, creating classes , Data binding and collections, and then started creating components and classes to develop a better architecture for the application. After completing the ninth chapter I took a short test with the ATTest program and scored a 50%, a little better than I figured since I still have quite a bit to cover, but it makes me feel confident that I should be able to take the certification test in August. I am planning on doing one of the ATTest tests every week from here on out to give me an idea of where I am at.

Windows 7 Upgrade Update

James — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:57:18 +0000

Well install is done, here are some more pics…

I really did not want to install VS 2005 & VS 2008 on this, the main reason I need VS2005 is because I use MSSQL Reporting Services and use VS2005 to design reports for it, as VS2008 seems to have a problem with that. tHen I remembered that the SQL install had an option for a install of the Reporting Services Dev as a stand alone. So I installed it, and then downloaded the service packs, and updates, then installed VS 2008 and updated it. So far looks good, but will find out for sure when I get to work tomorrow.

All I have to do now is get Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop installed, then Flex, and the MotoDev IDE for Android, Mapforce, Oxygen XML editor, and MS Office and I will be back up and running on my Dev laptop . I will have the Adobe products installed tonightand will take care of the rest tomorrow.

Flex blog post on an ArrayCollection problem.

James — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:34:16 +0000

Wrote a quick post the other day about a solution to a problem I was running into with a project I am working on at work. It involves a webservice, and ArrayCollections..

Go to the post…

New Flex blog

James — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:00:45 +0000

Well as if I don’t have enough to do and do a poor job of keeping up on posting on the blogs I have, I have started a new one. This one is to chronicle my journey along the road of enlightenment to Flex nirvana.

For those of you who do not know what Flex is, it is a programming language, from Adobe. It is basically for developers to program Flash, instead of using the Flash environment, which is more for designers. I am adding a link to it on the sidebar, but here is a link too.. My Flex Blog.

I am not going to get into why I am getting into Flex, or what I am doing with it here, you will just have to go to the Flex blog and see

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