Flex on TopCoder

TopCoder is now offering Flex/Actionscript 3 competitions. In the past TopCoder has only offered Java and .NET competitions. This is a great opportunity for the Flex community to test their skills and earn a little cash. Let the games begin :)

Actionscript 3 HMAC: Keyed-Hashing

I have implemented the HMAC (RFC2104) in actionscript 3 using the as3 core library. I have submitted a patch to as3 core lib. I developed the HMAC library because I needed it to perform the CRAM-MD5 for my actionscript 3 mail api project AsMailer. The HMAC library has been tested for MD5 and SHA1. The library can support other hash methods but they have not been tested.

asDox Alpha 2.1 Released

I have updated the asDox project and release 1.0.0 alpha 2.1 which contains some minor bugs fixes with imports and file encoding. I like to thank Eamonn Faherty for reporting these issues. I have not had a lot of time to work on asDox but that is all about to change. I am working on a new Flex + WebOrb + Doctrine project in which I am using asDox to generate the Doctrine Records, PHP DTO's, and the PHP DAO's. I will try to blog my progress for those who are interested.

asDox Alpha 2 Released

I have released asdox-1.0.0-alpha2 . The grammar has been rewritten and tested against the Flex 3 SDK. The wiki examples have been updated as well. This Alpha 2 version does not return JavaDoc tags information. I am planning to implement JavaDoc's in the next release.

New AS3 grammar for asDox

I have been working on rewriting the Actionscript 3 grammar for asDox. The original grammar could not parse files from the Flex 3 SDK but the new grammar can parse all 647 source files. The Flex 3 SDK has been a really great test for my AS3 grammar and I learned quite a bit about what is valid AS3 syntax. Now that I can successfully parse AS3 files the next challenge is to assemble a model from each of the AS3 elements: Methods, Classes, Packages, Metadata, JavaDocs and Variables. I hope to get an Alpha 2 release out very soon :)

PureMVC Flash Develop Templates

I have updated the PureMVC Flash Develop Project and File Templates to work with PureMVC v2.0.3 and Flash Develop Beta 6. You can download the latest templates here.

Generating PHP Value Objects with asDox

I am working hard on documentation for asDox. The project is still in Alpha but I wanted to focus on some example uses for asDox. I have just posted a new Wiki page titled Generating PHP Value Objects . This is a great example of the how asDox can make life easier when creating Flex applications that use RemoteObjects. asDox can also be used the generate the DAO and SQL Scripts for your value objects.

asDox - Actionscript 3 Parser

I very proud to announce the release of asDox 1.0.0-alpha. asDox is small Actionscript 3 parser build using PyParsing. It is based on the qDox project for Java. asDox's main goal is to provide code generation for Model Driven Development. Use asDox with any Python template engine will allow you to generate PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby, or even SQL scripts from Actionscript 3 Classes. The project is hosted at http://asdox.googlecode.com . This is an alpha release so there is very little documentation but I plan to get some more Wiki pages put up soon.

Fluorine FX

The Silent Group launch a new open source .NET library. FluorineFx provides an implementation of Flex/Flash Remoting, Flex Data Services and real-time messaging functionality for the .NET framework.

http://www.fluorinefx.com/

PureMVC Project Template for Flash Develop

I have updated my modification to the Flash Develop Project Manager Plugin. The plugin modification will work with Flash Develop Beta 5. You can download the updated files via the Flash Develop Forum . If I can find some extra time I will develop a Caringorm Project Template but if you are familiar with Caringorm feel free to develop a Project Template based off the PureMVC template. (It's actually very easy to do ).

AMF PHP Tutorial in German

I recieved an email today from www.HowToForge.com reguarding my AMFPHP 1.9 tutorial. They were requesting my permission to translate my tutorial to German. I thought it was really cool. So if you speak German go check it out at www.HowToForge.de .

*** Life Spoiler ***

You die at the end :)

Thought this was funny.

PureMVC Project Template Updated

I have updated the Project Manager Plugin Mod for Flash Develop 3 making it easier to use. I also updated the PureMVC Project Template to take advantage of these recent changes.



http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?p=7792#7792

PureMVC Project Template for FlashDevelop 3

I have modified the Project Manager Plugin for Flash Develop 3 to accomidate complex project templates. You can follow the process of this modification over at the Flash Develop forum http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?t=1719 . With this modification I have created a PureMVC Project template and associated Project File templates. I have posted some screenshot over at the PureMVC forum http://futurescale.com/forums/puremvc/index.php?topic=15.0 . And don't worry a Cairngorm Project template is soon to follow.

PureMVC: AS3 Framework

Cliff Hall has developed a AS3 MVC framework called PureMVC. Unlike Cairngorm the PureMVC frameworks targets any AS3 based application including Flex,Flash, and AIR. I recently convert the Cairngorm CafeTownsend demo to use the PureMVC framework. You can download the source and view the demo app over at http://puremvc.org .

Adobe AIR Developer Derby

I am going to enter the Adobe AIR Developer Derby . I think I might have a change at winning a T-Shirt :) Next question is what to build ?

PHP 5 in Java

Quercus is Caucho Technology's fast, open-source, 100% Java implementation of the PHP language. Quercus is a feature of Caucho Technology's Resin Application Server and is built into Resin - there is no additional download/install. Developers using Resin can launch PHP projects without having to install the standard PHP interpreter (http://www.php.net) as Quercus takes on the role of the PHP engine.

Quercus + Amfphp = Good Things :)

amfphp - Flash remoting for PHP

amfphp has a new url: http://www.amf-php.org/ .I have been following the domain name mess and I know what a headache it can be. I have had a few client forget to renew their domain names and the @#$% hits the fan when websites go down and the email stops working.

Flex 2 Inline Item Renderer Tip

I stumbled upon an unknown property as I was trying to use an Inline Item Renderer on my DataGrid Columns. If you use the <mx:component> tag with your inline item renderer and try to have your component call an event in your main application you will get a nasty "Access to undefined method blah blah". This is because your Inline Item Renderer is unaware of what exists in your main application. But you can use the outerDocument property to access event handlers in you main application.

<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:VBox >
<mx:Button label="Remove" click="outerDocument.remove()"/>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>

Fluorine Tutorial

I wrote a tutorial on using Amfphp 1.9 with the Flex 2 SDK. One of the things I wanted to do was to convert my Amfphp tutorial into a Fluorine tutorial but just couldn't find the time to do so. Well as luck would have it I need to use Fluorine for on an application for a client. So I will begin development on a Fluorine with the Flex 2 SDK tutorial. I would like to publish this tutorial on HowToForge but I don't think that have a section for C#, .NET, or Flex 2.