When creating a project in Flex Builder if you select the application server type as J2EE you need to have access to the WEB-INF flex folder of the server and the services-config.xml configuration file of the remote server. So what do you do if you don't have access to the WEB-INF flex folder?
I'll be giving a talk on open source hardware and the Arduino platform at the Web Standards Group in Sydney on the 24th February.
If you want know more about the Ardunio platform and how easy it is to connect open source hardware to the internet come along.
When using remote objects in Flex (for BlazeDS) you may want to change the endpoint (server, port and context root) and switch between servers. This is useful if your development environment contains both testing and production servers (as it should).
The usual way is to define these settings in the Flex/Flash Builder project when the project is created but this is not easily changed once it's been set up.
Adobe announced today the name change of the old Adobe Community Experts program to the shinny new Adobe Community Professionals program. They also announced the list of the people who are in the program and I was one of them. It's great to see a strong Flex and ColdFusion presence in the list (about a 3rd of the total) and I'm looking forward to being a part of the program and helping out in any way I can.
A few other locals made it on the list as well. So congratulations to Kai Koenig, Campbell Anderson, Dale Rankine, Geoff Bowers, Andrew Muller and Mark Mandel. (If I've left any local ColdFusion or Flex people off that list many apologies.)
I'll be speaking about Arduinos and RIAs at Webinale in Berlin in June. Thanks goes to Kai Koening who's organising the RIA stream for the conference.
I've not been to Germany before and don't speak a word of German so it's going to be an interesting experience and i'm looking forward to it. The tracks and sessions are starting to fill out. Some of them (including mine) will be in English (thankfully).
Here is the code and a pdf of the slides of my talk on putting your (arduino) device in the browser and on the web at linux.conf.au 2010 as part of the arduino mini conference in Wellington New Zealand.
Here is the LED code, the Pebble code and the Ethernet code for the demos. The pebble code demo were run with a standard version of firmata running on the adruino which was plugged into the pebble shield.
Download a PDF of my talk (2.2 Mb) or view on slide share.
Any questions on my talk just comment below or email me.
I'll be speaking about ColdFusion security and risk management at cf.Objective() in Minneapolis in April.
The speakers have been announced and the line up is fantastic. Good to see fellow Australian Mark Mandel speaking and many of the best known people in industry such as (in no particular order) Sean Corfield, Peter Bell, Tom Burleson, Charlie Arehart, Jeff Tapper, Raymond Camden, Rob Rusher and many more. Makes travelling the 14,000 or so kms (from Sydney) to get there well worth it.
The draft 2010 schedule is up now.
On Monday night at the Adobe Platform User Group we had several short presentations of 6 minuted 40 seconds in length consisting of 20 slides of 20 seconds each (known as Pecha Kucha). There was a wide variety of topics covered in the talks including boat building, martian pictures, google wave, PDF security, social networking reliability and I gave a talk on turning an Arduino into a web server in around 20 lines of code which compiled down to 5K.
Here are the slides from my talk.
Here is the code and a pdf of the slides of my talk on connecting hardware to ColdFusion at cf.Objective(ANZ) in Melbourne Australia.
ColdFusion code (including the Arduino and Socket CFCs) for all the demos and Arduino code for the demos.
The Arduino ColdFusion socket code will be up on RIA Forge shortly.
Download a PDF of my talk (2.2 Mb) or view on slide share.
Any questions on my talk just comment below or email me.
