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Just a quick pointer from a Flex 1.5 maintenance project we're working on.

In brief, a Flex 1.5 client was accessing XML over HTTP on a different domain, and as such was subject to crossdomain.xml restrictions.

The requests worked fine on player 9.0....more

The next time you're crying uncle deep in Flex-ColdFusion bugland, take a moment to check whether or not Flex and/or ColdFusion are trying to tell you the same thing through their logs.

Case 1....more

If this sounds like you, relax....more

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Are you a client server or desktop freelance developer looking for something new to get your teeth into? RocketBoots are running a five day Adobe Flex 2 course this month from Monday the 18th to Friday the 22nd at the incredible price of $550 inc......more

Our own client, the FRAME Group, and AFR Access Now in my reckoning with only two finalists this is a bronze - which should have entailed a parade over the Harbour Bridge with a half-decent flypast, but Australians are a bit spoilt by our Olympic swimming team and most of our airforce are busy do...more

You may have noticed the slightly sporadic nature of posts to this blog over the last six or so months. This was in part due to our role on what has turned out to be a whopper of a Flex project - AFR Access....more

For those of you who have wondered how you can get a copy of the Flex 2 Visual Reference Poster we sent out to the user groups around the world, they are now available for 15 AUD per poster + 15 AUD shipping for 1-5 posters (FYI 15 AUD ~ 11.13 USD ~ 8.74 EUR at today's rates)....more

Drum roll please......more

All entrants also receive a copy of the lovingly crafted and highly desirable Flex 2 reference poster.

Good Luck!

Robin

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I know you're out there, feverishly working on your projects and perhaps you've lost track of the date - but you only have a few days to get your entries in!

Have a look at some of the entries so far.

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The entries are starting to roll in for the rest of world Flex developer competition, and I have to say many of them are pretty amazing! We will be getting the competition site up over the next week so that you can see the entries....more

Want to strut your Flex 2 stuff but don't live in the US or Canada (excluding Quebec - what did they do to deserve that)?

RocketBoots is proud to announce the RocketBoots R.O.W. Flex Developer Space Race, with 6 x 2Gb iPod Nanos and global fame up for grabs....more

How many classes extend flash.events.EventDispatcher in the Flex 2 API? Webdu attendees know the answer is 318, thanks of course to the spectacular Flex 2 API Quick Reference poster they got in their goody bags....more

When I returned to my all-singing all dancing Flex Cairngorm project after Webdu my client showed me the results of some remoting traffic measurements they had carried out in the previous week....more

With the recent indications around the pricing of the Flex 2 SDK and Flex Builder 2, it seems sensible to suggest that 2006 would be an excellent year to learn Flex development if you haven't already....more

A few days back I posted some code for dumping arbitrary Actionscript objects in a robust fashion....more

I'm a big fan of adding tracing output to my code to confirm that it's doing what I think it's doing, and if not to help me debug it quickly.

Writing tracing code can be a labourious task, so over time I've developed some reusable tracing code for Actionscript and ColdFusion....more

Some of you may remember the asteroid field simulation I wrote a few months back. Now that I've got my OSX AS3 environment set up (thanks again Joc and Alisdair - I've got it set up as an automated build task in Eclipse) I thought I'd port it over to pure AS3....more

Hi all,

Here's a quick one for those of you who'd like to save some time when tracing out a list of variable values in actionscript....more

This is the first of many Master Classes that will cover the range of experience that the RocketBoots team has to offer....more

I've just finished listening to the Macromedia Developer Relations team's first talking book (aka known as a PodCast to the iPod endowed) and I have to say that i'm very impressed with their inagural effort....more

We've been working with several development teams over the past year on Flex applications using the Cairngorm framework from iteration::two....more

Macromedia said it will join the Eclipse Foundation and create a "next-generation rich Internet application development tool," code-named Zorn, based on Eclipse....more

The code from Friday's ANZ Community Seminar on building RIAs with the Cairngorm framework is ready for download. Cairngorm is a really useful MVC framework for developing RIAs, created by the team at iteration::two based on their experiences over the last few years....more

Hello,

Just a quick announcement - tomorrow at 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time I'll be presenting the January Macromeida ANZ Community talk. The topic is building applications in Flex using iteration::two's Cairngorm framework....more

If you've found all the Flex 1.5 sample apps work except for the Flex Store, try adding -Djava.awt.headless=true to your jvm.config.

We had this problem so I first added the -verbose option to jvm....more

"Version 1....more

With The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries out next weekend in the US and UK, I thought those Farscape fans in our readership might like to know about a special cameo appearance by a member the RocketBoots team....more

The first thing is setting oXygen up so that you can author MXML....more