Re: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
I'm working on a Flex port of my ARP web log (prototype: http://tinyurl.com/nnt37), and a Flex 2 prototyping tool that links devnotes to application states (prototype: http://tinyurl.com/nk7ob). The web log will be built in ARP, the devnotes in Cairngorm. Mike Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB/TM ~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
I'm a Learning Technologist at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) Currently I'm working on a Virtual Museum - it's not 3D or anything though that would be nice in the future :-) it's more like an image gallery, but with object models rather than images. It'll allow students and guest lecturers to curate the collection too. It uses Flex 2, PHP and mySQL (via AMFPHP). At some point I'll be doing a Video Gallery much like the old Macromedia Video Gallery, where staff and students can leave tips and advice. Flex 2 + Flash Media Server 2. I have a Virtual Fieldtrip Environment (VFE) that allows users to upload a background (such as a map) and place resources at relevant points on the map. It was written in the days of Flash 5 using the J-ACK framework (when Flex was probably only a twinkle in Macromedias eye? I guess you could say the work of the guys that did things like J-ACK then ultimately lead to the development of Flex?) - I'm about the re-write it the VFE using Flex 2, AMFPHP, mySQL and FMS 2 We're just talking about doing some sort of virtual campus that allows to students to find their way about (what place does what, who's based where etc), ask questions and communicate with each other. That'll likely be Flex 2 and FMS 2 I love this stuff 8-) and do hope you're going to release the AVM2 as a stand alone for devices (no need for keeping the AVM1 as all that legacy stuff will kill the devices and there's comparatively little stuff written already - AS3 will be awesome on phones :-) ) I'd like our students and staff to be able to interact with the VFE while in remote locations accessing and uploading info and communicating with each other Cheers for making my job enjoyable! Phil David Mendels wrote: Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe -- __ Phil Marston Learning Technologist Learning Technology Unit Edward Wright G33, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44(0)1224 273329 / +44(0)7798 723660 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/ltu/pmarston/ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/ltu/ __ The University of Aberdeen Open Day 29th August 2006 Booking is essential www.abdn.ac.uk/openday email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 0800 027 1495 __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
RE: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
We are developing a health care Practice Management and Electronic Health Records platform to service small to medium sized health care practices. - Jim Schneider EyeCodeRight, LLC 1-877-370-6906 1-612-605-5399 From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Mendels Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:23 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...? Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
RE: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
Two things: 1) Recurring Billing interface. Our merchants will use this UI to manage their consumers and their associated recurring billing setups. They can do a variety of searches, view summary data using charts and then drill into the details of the consumer record. Uses FDS to manage the consumer records and makes use of RO and WS RPC calls. 2) Chargeback Tool. Built by my partner in crime Stacy, internal employees upload CSV files containing chargeback records and during the processing of the file (can take minutes), the server send messages to the client to update him on the status via JMS. The rest of the app allows the editing of records and searches. Dimitrios Gianninas RIA Developer Optimal Payments Inc. From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stacy YoungSent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:46 PMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...? Latest project Im engineering is a real-time monitoring/administrative console for an in-house CF reporting system. Managing report threads in CF clusters, alarms and some very custom functionality to manage reporting workload around our system upgrades which may involve downtime etc. Technologies involved: Flex 2, Java, CF, JMS and eventually ESB (servicemix) Cheers, Stace From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David MendelsSent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:23 AMTo: flexcoders@yahoogroups.comSubject: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...? Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe AVIS IMPORTANT WARNING Ce message électronique et ses pièces jointes peuvent contenir des renseignements confidentiels, exclusifs ou légalement privilégiés destinés au seul usage du destinataire visé. L'expéditeur original ne renonce à aucun privilège ou à aucun autre droit si le présent message a été transmis involontairement ou s'il est retransmis sans son autorisation. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire visé du présent message ou si vous l'avez reçu par erreur, veuillez cesser immédiatement de le lire et le supprimer, ainsi que toutes ses pièces jointes, de votre système. La lecture, la distribution, la copie ou tout autre usage du présent message ou de ses pièces jointes par des personnes autres que le destinataire visé ne sont pas autorisés et pourraient être illégaux. Si vous avez reçu ce courrier électronique par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur. This electronic message and its attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information, which is solely for the use of the intended recipient. No privilege or other rights are waived by any unintended transmission or unauthorized retransmission of this message. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if you have received it in error, you should immediately stop reading this message and delete it and all attachments from your system. The reading, distribution, copying or other use of this message or its attachments by unintended recipients is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development
RE: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
Latest project I’m engineering is a real-time monitoring/administrative console for an in-house CF reporting system. Managing report threads in CF clusters, alarms and some very custom functionality to manage reporting workload around our system upgrades which may involve downtime etc. Technologies involved: Flex 2, Java, CF, JMS and eventually ESB (servicemix) Cheers, Stace From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David Mendels Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:23 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...? Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe AVIS IMPORTANT WARNING Ce message électronique et ses pièces jointes peuvent contenir des renseignements confidentiels, exclusifs ou légalement privilégiés destinés au seul usage du destinataire visé. L'expéditeur original ne renonce à aucun privilège ou à aucun autre droit si le présent message a été transmis involontairement ou s'il est retransmis sans son autorisation. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire visé du présent message ou si vous l'avez reçu par erreur, veuillez cesser immédiatement de le lire et le supprimer, ainsi que toutes ses pièces jointes, de votre système. La lecture, la distribution, la copie ou tout autre usage du présent message ou de ses pièces jointes par des personnes autres que le destinataire visé ne sont pas autorisés et pourraient être illégaux. Si vous avez reçu ce courrier électronique par erreur, veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur. This electronic message and its attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information, which is solely for the use of the intended recipient. No privilege or other rights are waived by any unintended transmission or unauthorized retransmission of this message. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if you have received it in error, you should immediately stop reading this message and delete it and all attachments from your system. The reading, distribution, copying or other use of this message or its attachments by unintended recipients is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender. __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
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We host chat and instant messaging apps for the major social networking sites (wink, wink) and we're porting these apps over to Flex on the client-side and we intend to replace Flashcom with FDS for everything but A/V. We're finding the latter process to be painful but promising. We'd love to see more samples, tutorials, and documentation for the server API. I suppose you might not want to encourage the cannibalization of Flashcom, but docs targeting people like us who want to migrate to FDS from FMS would be awesome. Also, this list is a great place to get framework and builder questions answered, but my FDS questions tend to die a lonely death -- is there a better forum for those questions? Thanks, Tom On 7/19/06, David Mendels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
For the last two years I have been working on a technology platform called Elroy.Elroy is a media discovery platform that in some respects operates like a personalized television or radio station that had Digg built in. There will be a variety of services providing content in the areas of comedy and music, and other stuff I cant talk about yet. But for music I like to say its like a mashup of internet radio, American idol and TiVo. Basically, you can indicate what content you like and don't like and the service will tailor the experience to your tastes. At the same time your opinions effect what other people see/hear because if a piece of content is popular it will be played on more peoples stations. The content for most (but not all) of the Elroy services will be user generated. But we don't share much in common with YouTube. YouTube is a giant content repository. What we are doing is creating continuous play channels that are topic specific that use technology to create the editorial perspective. Like on your TV, you know if you go to Lifetime you are going to see chick flix, or MTV you are going to see "young" programming. And on discovery you are going to see more educational stuff. We believe editorial perspective is critical to all content consumption. There is a fair bit more to say and I am not sure this really gives a clear idea, but it at least gives some flavor. We expect to launch the first service in August. In any case, what's nice is that I have, in one month redone most of the user interface in flex and I am very happy with it. You were talking about wanting insight into what people are doing to inform your strategy going forward, and one of the areas that would be very helpful to me is DRM, because, as it stands, for me to play major label music, I need to use WMA, which is a bummer. We do plan this later this fall and I hate having to do it. But I am going to have to do some funky _javascript_/WMA thing for that service. Another thing that would be really helpful is p2p in Apollo. I think you should consider buying a company like redswoosh, or writing your own. I am not talking about filesharing/stealing p2p but the core technology which allows me to distribute content without giant bandwidth bills. Another company is Kontiki. Finally, one area that would be very helpful is a ARM version of AVM2. As I understand, the arm port is already written. Even without the flash object model, it would be very helpful to have a perhaps GCC based VM that would allow me to target ARM. I have lots of algorithms that I want to port to a portable environment where everything is ARM. and I would love to keep AS3 as my language of choice. As it is, complex algorithms need to be ported, which is a bummer. I guess what I am saying is you should open source the VM is flash. Not the Object model, but the interpreter. This would really help to establish the platform without costing you anything. It would help make people more loyal to the language. Regards,HankOn 7/20/06, David Mendels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is s
RE: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
Evan Gifford here from Profitstreams. We’ve started our project with Beta 3 and are now using Flex Builder 2. We are using a Service Orientated Architecture with multiple operating systems and languages powering our presentation tier. I was able to use the Restaurant finder example application to convince our CEO to use Flex as our primary presentation tier technology. :^) We are using Flex to empower customers to easily make online food orders and online restaurant reservations. We are also creating an invite system which will allow a restaurant or customer to create an invitation (either SWF, Email or Print) and send it to their contact list. All this is tied to their payment information and completed online. We currently have a working prototype of the invitation creator which allows a customer to choose a template, customize it using modified Rich Text Editors (resizable, customized), add and re-size and image or logo, then manage and select recipients and complete the proofing process using PDF. This proof-of-concept application was successful and very impressive to everyone concerned. We us FLV video helper videos (yours truly), in-context help windows and embedded SWF animations along with a very intuitive interface in an effort to create a very low-touch and virally-cool solution. Coming from a Perl/Generator 2/Flash 3 background, I’m very excited to see a mature product which accomplishes exactly what we knew the internet is capable of all along. I’ve bounced back and forth between Graphic Designer and Programmer for these last 6 years, using everything from Quark Express and more recently CS2 to using Generator 2 and Perl to generate dynamic flash content to programming eCommerce solutions in PHP. Flex is the technology I would work with if given a choice of anything in the world. :^) -Evan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mendels Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...? Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: 7/18/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/391 - Release Date: 7/18/2006
RE: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
Can you provide a little more detail on the performance areas that are hurting you? If there’s a sample that demonstrates the speed issue it may be something we can look at. Matt From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pan Troglodytes Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:49 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...? Well, since I have never programmed in ActionScript at all, my projects have served a dual purpose - functional and educational. In other words, some of the software may never see the light of day but that's okay - at least it taught me how to build in Flex. My most "real" application has been an ad-hoc query builder. We have some financial reporting that it broken down into various fields: branch, quarter, period, that kind of thing. So I gave each field an accordion pane and filled it with the values for that field. Then I let the user drag-n-drop the values for each field into another List, arranging them hierarchically however they want. This then feeds a sql statement that uses group by and rollup to get all the data both on the detail level and summarized by each parent level. I then feed that into a DataGrid that has many custom renderers. The main powerhouse is the "tree" renderer. Basically, the first column down the page looks like a tree of those key fields. So if they chose to report by quarter, then branch, then manager, it would look like: (view the following in a fixed width font) Gross Expenses Profit Total X X X 1Q-2006 X X X Branch 1 X X X Jane Doe X X X John Smith X X X Branch 2 X X X Phil Johnson X X X 2Q-2006 X X X Branch 1 X X X Jane Doe X X X John Smith X X X Branch 2 X X X Phil Johnson X X X I put in Xs because I got tired of making up stuff. But you get the picture. It's basically very pivot-table-ish. It's really the graphical touches that seal the deal. There's icons and animations and colors all over the place. Not too much, but more than I could have coded in the week or so I've been building it. I'm an experienced Delphi user and have to say I'm really blown away by Flex. Delphi is RAD but Flex is RAD^2. Okay, for my VERY basic advice on what I would put some effort into. Well, first, fix the bugs that have come out here. You have a pretty wide base of components already and I would like them to be very stable. Nothing slows a developer down more than spending hours on a problem to only find the bug isn't in his/her code. Second, I would REALLY like to see some optimization done. I know this is going to be hard with the dynamic, frequently untyped nature of Flex. But some of the code runs painfully slow for what it does. I'm still not 100% happy with the speed of those custom itemRenderers in the grid. And I stripped them down as far as they can go and it's not because I wrote bad code. Overall, the speed is good for an "internet application". Internet apps get to make excuses. But I'd like to get the speed good enough to rival native desktop apps. Sure, not on everything - but at least on GUI graphics. Keep up the good work. I haven't had this much fun with a new language in a while... On 7/20/06, David Mendels < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe -- J
Re: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
Hello, My name is Dmitriy. I think I can share what I've been working on during last couple of years. I work for Christian University in Russia. The school hired me to make a website for them and to write a program to automate students' registration, grades and etc. The school didn't have much money to use commercially based solutions. So we decided to go RIA. We used MySQL, PHP an Apache hosted on FreeBSD to build a backed for our application. First version of a client was built using HTML and _javascript_. But 8 months ago I saw Flex on Macromedia Website and I decided to go for it and do everything I did in html with Flex. I started using it in it's Alpha state. So it was a risk for me to do it. But it I did. Now I'm on my way to finish the first part of the school application which is built using Flex 2 & Cairngorm 2 and has following features: Academic Programs Management Semester/Sessions module Classes Management Teachers Management Students Management I even was able to build an interactive semester schedule builder The RIA is really helpful here. We were able to automate the a lot's of processes which used to require lot's of hand work. I think Flex is a great platform. I wasn't been able to try FDS yet, since the school RIA still has the same PHP backend. I only used Remoting (AMFPHP) instead of XML or http queries. But I hope I will do it in the future. Another thing I had developed was a Flex based Bulletin Board. It's online and is used for secure staff communication. I think these are the projects I can share about. I would like to thank all the Adobe guys who spent these couple of years building such a greate tool as Flex. With Flex we don't have so many boundaries any more, we have much freedom to build things that were impossible before. Ulich Dmitriy __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
Re: [flexcoders] So? What are folks here actually building...?
Well, since I have never programmed in ActionScript at all, my projects have served a dual purpose - functional and educational. In other words, some of the software may never see the light of day but that's okay - at least it taught me how to build in Flex. My most "real" application has been an ad-hoc query builder. We have some financial reporting that it broken down into various fields: branch, quarter, period, that kind of thing. So I gave each field an accordion pane and filled it with the values for that field. Then I let the user drag-n-drop the values for each field into another List, arranging them hierarchically however they want. This then feeds a sql statement that uses group by and rollup to get all the data both on the detail level and summarized by each parent level. I then feed that into a DataGrid that has many custom renderers. The main powerhouse is the "tree" renderer. Basically, the first column down the page looks like a tree of those key fields. So if they chose to report by quarter, then branch, then manager, it would look like: (view the following in a fixed width font) Gross Expenses Profit Total X X X 1Q-2006 X X X Branch 1 X X X Jane Doe X X X John Smith X X X Branch 2 X X X Phil Johnson X X X 2Q-2006 X X X Branch 1 X X X Jane Doe X X X John Smith X X X Branch 2 X X X Phil Johnson X X XI put in Xs because I got tired of making up stuff. But you get the picture. It's basically very pivot-table-ish. It's really the graphical touches that seal the deal. There's icons and animations and colors all over the place. Not too much, but more than I could have coded in the week or so I've been building it. I'm an experienced Delphi user and have to say I'm really blown away by Flex. Delphi is RAD but Flex is RAD^2. Okay, for my VERY basic advice on what I would put some effort into. Well, first, fix the bugs that have come out here. You have a pretty wide base of components already and I would like them to be very stable. Nothing slows a developer down more than spending hours on a problem to only find the bug isn't in his/her code. Second, I would REALLY like to see some optimization done. I know this is going to be hard with the dynamic, frequently untyped nature of Flex. But some of the code runs painfully slow for what it does. I'm still not 100% happy with the speed of those custom itemRenderers in the grid. And I stripped them down as far as they can go and it's not because I wrote bad code. Overall, the speed is good for an "internet application". Internet apps get to make excuses. But I'd like to get the speed good enough to rival native desktop apps. Sure, not on everything - but at least on GUI graphics. Keep up the good work. I haven't had this much fun with a new language in a while...On 7/20/06, David Mendels < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, It has been less than a month since we shipped Flex, but I know many folks on this list had projects they started back in the public beta time. I know in many cases you may not be able to talk about what projects you are working on, but for those who can I'd love to get a view onto what folks are building. We spent a long time (almost two years) on all the parts of the Flex 2 product line (and the Flash Player 9) and it is very cool to see the traffic here, the emergence of third party conferences like www.flexseminar.com, the books coming out on Flex, the 60K plus downloads of the IDE in the public beta, but we'd love to get a sense of what real applications people are starting to build. The team is already working on plans for mid-term and longer term upgrades to Flex, and it helps us to really understand what people are building. So, if you are able to talk about what you are building please do share--I think it would be very interesting for the community and very valuable for us on the Flex team at Adobe. --David Adobe -- Jason __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex S
