Jun 24th, 2009
You may have noticed that we’ve been recently adding new samples to Tour de Flex to illustrate various ways to work with backend data from Flex. I just added some new samples to expand this topic into the worlds of .NET and PHP. The samples were provided by the guys at MidnightCoders, creators of [...]
Jun 24th, 2009
During the past several weeks, we have been adding new samples in the Flex Data Access category in Tour de Flex. All of the samples were created by either Christophe Coenraets or Holly Schinsky. Below is a brief overview of each. Many of the samples described below utilize BlazeDS or LiveCycle DS. If you are [...]
Jun 23rd, 2009
I’m speaking this Thursday, June 25th at the Tampa Bay ColdFusion User Group meeting at the offices of Kforce. I will be giving extensive demos of the upcoming release of ColdFusion, code named Centaur and the new ColdFusion IDE, code named Bolt. There are some amazing new features to show so you don’t want to [...]
Jun 23rd, 2009
I’ve received several request to extend the end date for the Flex Data Visualization contest. The blog post has recently received a bunch of traffic so a lot of people are late getting involved. The new deadline is Tuesday, July 7th at noon EDT. Contest details at http://gregsramblings.com/2009/06/08/flex-data-visualization-contest/
Jun 23rd, 2009
During the past few months, I have often needed to share a small code snippet or other content that is impossible or impractical to paste into a tweet, blog comment or email. On several occasions, I created a temporary page on my blog or on one of my public servers. I also tried out a [...]
Jun 17th, 2009
I’m heading to Nashville to speak at the following events: Thursday, 06/18/2009 7PM CDT – Nashville ColdFusion User Group – I’ll be showing some amazingly cool features in the upcoming release of ColdFusion. Friday, 06/19/2009 7PM CDT – 615 Flash / Flex camp & Flex Adobe Tour – Cool Flex 4 and Catalyst demonstrations as [...]
Jun 11th, 2009
We just rolled out 8 new samples in Tour de Flex in the Data Visualization category from Axiis, an open source data visualization framework. These are some great looking charts! Thanks to Tom Gonzalez for adding them to Tour de Flex! Check them out.
Jun 8th, 2009
Two weeks ago, I blogged about the Tour de Flex Live Planetary Dashboard, an example of taking a simple real-time data stream and making it into a cool dashboard. The guys from the ILOG Elixir team did a fantastic job! (see their dashboard here). Now it’s your turn to impress! Today we are announcing a [...]