At work I push out all of the website updates (to our Farcry CMS) through ANT (using the scp task). I recently upgraded to Eclipse 3.3 / ANT 1.7. Now, every time I push the update out, Coldfusion (CF8) returns a ” File not found” error for the index.cfm file (root of the [...]
Secure certificates have become increasingly cheaper since their inception. Until you have purchased and installed one there is a bit of mystery around the process. This mini-tutorial will specifically deal with installing a Standard SSL Certificate from GoDaddy on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 (or CentOS 5) server with Apache 2.2 installed. [...]
AIR is meant to facilitate applications that work when online and offline. For example, if you developed an AIR application to manage your blog, you would want to be able to write blog posts whether you were online or offline. To accomplish this, the application would do one of two actions depending on [...]
One of the great features of AIR is the ability to go fullscreen. Obviously this could be abused - but when used properly, this opens up many doors. One great example of a useful fullscreen application is Daniel Dura’s Twittercamp. When you click on the logo (bottom-right) it opens up into a fullscreen [...]
Every AIR application has an Application Descriptor file which is an XML file that defines the properties of the application. This file is where the developer defines the application ID, application version, application name, and many other properties. As of AIR Beta 3 this file is accessible from NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor in Actionscript and air.NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationDescriptor [...]
Amazon has announced their newest webservice, SimpleDB. This service could fill in the gap with EC2 and S3 to offer a completely redundant and scalable solution for robust Internet applications. Amazon has only released a few details, but the public beta will be opening within the next few weeks.
Traditionally, this type of functionality [...]
I have been blogging now for about seven months. I never would have guessed that I would have gotten to the 1,000th spam comment so fast. I forgot to pinpoint exactly which message was the 1,000th, but I have a hunch it had something to do with Viagra.
Way to go Akismet.
Adobe released two specific items today that will have a huge impact on remoting. First, Adobe released the AMF 3.0 specification (PDF). Second, Adobe released BlazeDS which allows for distribution of real-time data through remoting. BlazeDS was previously a part of Livecycle Data Services, but has now been released under the LGPL [...]
AIR Beta 3 was released this morning. This Beta brings us a step closer to the final 1.0 release. Several API names have changed, and support has been added for a few specific features. I will be writing more about Beta 3 (and updating all of my AIR tips) today and tomorrow.
UPDATE: [...]
There were two big announcements this week for the Flash platform. First, the new dot-release of Flash Player 9 (codename MovieStar) was released last night. This means that h.264 is now included in the Flash Player (and hopefully for AIR in the near future). There are also many new changes that you [...]
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