http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog Random thoughts on Flash Remoting and related technologies tom@flash-remoting.com en-us I just got a blurb from Patrick Mineault of AMFPHP.org that version 1.0 is out. December 25th, 2005 - amfphp 1.0 has finally been released after 3 years of beta. amfphp is an open-source Flash Remoting gateway. It?s fast, reliable, 100... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=98 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=98 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:15:10 GMT My last entry was about a great tool for debugging Flash Remoting applications, allowing you to view all headers, requests, and responses. Well, there is another similar tool that is just as good -- called Charles, available at http://xk72.com/charle... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=97 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=97 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:12:54 GMT Kevin Langdon has sent me information about a new product of his that simply blew me away -- it's the kind of thing that a tool like Flash should have built in, but doesn't. If you've used the NetConnection debugger before, you know that it can be a ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=96 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=96 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:24:56 GMT Gary Matthew Rogers posted on his blog today (and at the amfphp forum) about how he was able to make HTTPS work with Flash Remoting in Internet Explorer. This is one of those things that has perplexed many people, so hopefully this will help ease the... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=95 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=95 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:06:10 GMT Joey Lott has done something unique with his new article on Remoting -- made it simple enough for anyone to understand, and also did it without the need for any Flash Remoting components. The article is called "Flash Remoting Made Simple" and is feat... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=94 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=94 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:00:44 GMT I blogged about the Trio Motors article at the Macromedia Developer Center a while back, but this week the application was released on Nahuel Foronda's blog. The article series never got past the first article, but was a nice implementation of the Ac... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=93 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=93 Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:01:52 GMT Joey Lott posted an excellent new article at Community MX this week about using Flash Remoting with the AS2 classes along with AMFPHP. The article is at http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B74BC and is free to members with a small fee for non... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=92 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=92 Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:52:51 GMT Community MX launched its blog today at http://www.communitymx.com/blog. I'm spread blog-thin now with this blog, my general site blog at http://www.tom-muck.com/blog, and now the Community MX blog. At CMX we have at any given time 20-30 partners con... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=91 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=91 Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:52:24 GMT The new Flash updater fixes many bugs and adds a ton of new examples and documentation. MM is doing Flash right this time. Details on the update can be found in this article at CMX: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=7901F... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=90 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=90 Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:47:53 GMT Flash MX 2004 is not the greatest ActionScript editor out there, but there are some people out there trying to improve it. Daniele Ugoletti is working on a Snippets panel for Flash MX 2004, but in the meantime he has created the Clippets extension. C... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=89 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=89 Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:54:40 GMT Paul Newman wrote a tutorial that was just published today on using the new Flash Remoting components. It is available at Community MX at http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=ADF3B. The tutorial is a case study on how he created an applicatio... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=88 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=88 Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:09:36 GMT I've posted my Flash Remoting presentation for CFUN attendees, including 3 basic Flash samples that I used during the presentation at http://www.tom-muck.com/sessions/. Also, the trace dumps are located at http://www.tom-muck.com/sessions/cfun2004/tc... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=87 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=87 Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:45:45 GMT Paul Newman at Community MX has released an article/video tutorial that deals with the new Flash Remoting components. The 3 videos are approximately 10 minutes each and show in detail how to use the new components using both code and using the new Re... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=86 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=86 Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:13:39 GMT Today was the first day of the CFUN conference in Rockville, MD (local conference for me.) I did a session on the new Flash Remoting components. I'll have session details for conference attendees posted here soon, including the code for the demos and... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=85 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=85 Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:38:50 GMT Flash Remoting is in the news again at Yahoo Finance. A company called Wall Street Access is using the Flash Remoting technology for it's online trading application. More information can be found at http://www.wallstaccess.com, with a demo of the pro... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=84 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=84 Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:35:08 GMT Mike Kollen and Nahuel Foronda have written an outstanding article on Devnet (http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/trio/articles/trio_widget2004.html about using the new Flash Remoting 2.0 components in Flash MX 2004. They used the Trio Motors sample ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=83 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=83 Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:35:33 GMT The long-awaited Flash Remoting components for ActionScript 2.0 are finally here! Go here to download: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting/downloads/components/ I've been involved with testing these and they are really great. The docum... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=82 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=82 Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:17:33 GMT I just got through the first day of TODCON and it was a blast. Ray West always puts on a great conference that's different from a lot of other conferences due to its smaller, more friendly atmosphere. At the end of a TODCON, everyone knows each other... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=81 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=81 Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:38:04 GMT Just to clarify my last post, I think that the Flex product is amazing and certainly one of the best things that MM has done. However, there are a few problems with the pricing as I see it, that will likely be the downfall of the product: For one, M... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=80 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=80 Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:43:09 GMT Macromedia released its $12,000 GUI builder, Flex, today. I have seen the product and all the examples posted, and while it's impressive, its cost is prohibitive. For what you are paying for, you are basically getting an archaic XML language variatio... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=79 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=79 Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:39:31 GMT There has been a lot of chatter on the public forums about the future of Flash Remoting, but Flash Remoting is alive and kicking. Macromedia is working on the AS 2 version as we speak, which should be available in a month or two. They look great so f... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=78 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=78 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:46:18 GMT I just got a note from the creators of Flashorb -- the alternative to Flash Remoting. They have released their ASP.NET product as a free download, with an upgrade option: "We just released our .Net version of FlashORB. If you do any .Net wo... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=77 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=77 Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:03:06 GMT Shameless plug: I just got my copy of Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Complete Reference, and I have to say it's the best edition yet. We added quite a bit to this edition to make it a worthwhile addition to your library even if you already have the other e... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=76 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=76 Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:51:12 GMT Not Flash-related, but if you write ColdFusion code using Dreamweaver, this item may interest you. I've updated one of my most popular Dreamweaver extensions -- the Context Help toolbar. The reason I built the extension was because of the horrible bu... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=75 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=75 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:21:32 GMT Great news on the Flash Remoting front -- Macromedia has committed to incorporating Flash Remoting into their new product Flex. More information can be found on Christophe Coenraets' blog here: http://www.markme.com/cc/archives/004130.cfm. This is pa... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=74 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=74 Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:51:20 GMT In response to an email I received, I began looking at putting a RecordSet object into a SharedObject. It is not as easy as you would think, and actually requires a bit of a kludge. This code works, and populates a grid: // Responder function for r... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=73 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=73 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:05:20 GMT A new blog by Steven Webster and Alistair McLeod has started up this month that features information on rich Internet applications. Steven is the author of several books, including Reality J2EE: Architecting for Macromedia Flash MX, which shows Flash... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=72 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=72 Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:59:05 GMT There are an awful lot of problems in the forums dealing with the Flash Remoting gateway URL. If you are developing on a local machine, you might be using http://localhost/flashservices/gateway. If you are using the built-in ColdFusion web server, it... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=71 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=71 Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:03:21 GMT One thing I like to do when building queries that don't change a lot (such as a query feeding a dropdown list, or one feeding an RSS feed) is to set the cachedwithin attribute of the <cfquery> tag. This allows for the server memory to hold the ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=70 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=70 Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:57:41 GMT Sean Corfield posted an item about debuggers titled Debuggers: What are they good for? In it, he cited two articles that talked about debuggers in Java, and how there are often better methods of debugging ( Debuggers are a wasteful Timesink by Danie... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=69 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=69 Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:27:41 GMT There was a question on the Flash forum this morning about parsing CSV files in Flash. Obviously, parsing them on the server and returning the results through Flash Remoting would be the ideal situation, but it can be done on the Flash side as well. ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=68 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=68 Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:31:54 GMT DataGlue is one of those things that you either love or hate. Many people have not had much luck using DataGlue, but I use it and think it's a very effective way to populate a UI component. In an attempt to test the effectiveness of DataGlue, I did a... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=67 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=67 Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:24:55 GMT Nigel Pegg has a new blog, and he has put it to use to give a rebuttal to my OOP Sacrilege article that appeared a few weeks ago. Nigel is one of the top developers over at Macromedia, and one of the top minds behind the component architecture in Fla... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=66 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=66 Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:04:37 GMT I wrote an extension for Dreamweaver a while ago (when DW 6 was in beta) that allowed a developer to get context sensitive help on any keyword within his code. For example, when typing <cfoutput>, you can put your cursor on the cfoutput and rig... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=65 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=65 Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:00:51 GMT Yesterday morning, Macromedia released the first (and hopefully not last) updater for Flash MX 2004. I have not tried the updater yet, but given the extreme buginess of the original release of Flash MX 2004, it can only be an improvement. ;-) Ther... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=64 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=64 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:57:52 GMT There is a file named hosts, located at C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc by default on Windows machines, that allows you to prevent annoying ad campaigns by simply blocking the address of the server and redirecting to another page. You can find informa... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=63 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=63 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:14:06 GMT One of the examples in the book (chapter 10) shows an interface to the Babelfish web service, which was published by xMethods (at http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/BabelFishService.wsdl). The service was taken down, and because of that, the example wil... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=62 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=62 Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:35:09 GMT Flash MX 2004 has a few inconsistencies when working with Flash Remoting. The Flash Remoting components have been updated to work with the program -- for the most part -- but some things do not work. DataGlue, for one, does not work with the new com... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=61 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=61 Sat, 08 Nov 2003 20:03:26 GMT I posted an article on Community MX (free article) about consuming a web service using Flash Remoting. Even though Flash Pro contains web service APIs, the best way to consume a web service is still by using Flash Remoting. This way, all the SOAP par... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=60 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=60 Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:50:18 GMT Paul Newman has been busy over at Community MX. He just completed a new application for Macromedia Central that really shows a useful application of the Central concept: a listing and search of content available at the site. This concept could be use... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=59 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=59 Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:45:01 GMT I posted a new editorial article giving a few thoughts on the new components in Flash MX 2004."One of the first things a programmer learns is to reuse code. One of the first things an OOP programmer learns is to build objects that are encapsulated. E... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=58 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=58 Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:43:46 GMT I've made a few minor changes in the site and plan to add some more features. One feature, suggested by Marc Garrett, is to add a section of links to successful RIAs that use Flash Remoting. If anyone has any links they'd like to share, send them to ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=57 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=57 Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:22:26 GMT Sean Voisen posted a blog entry today that talked about using Flash Remoting in enterprise-level applications. It is a good read: http://voisen.org/archives/flash_mx/000341.php. This was one of his comments: "I won?t go into exact detail on what the ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=56 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=56 Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:25:30 GMT There do not seem to be too many people using Server-side ActionScript (.asr files) in Flash Remoting, but it's a shame because it's a cool language that is based on ECMAScript and has access to the Java language as well. One thing you won't find i... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=55 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=55 Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:33:12 GMT Paul Newman has a new article at Community MX that uses Flash Remoting to do searches on the Community MX content. The article talks about some of the problems he had dealing with the Flash Pro components. The completed project is a Dreamweaver MX ex... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=54 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=54 Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:22:42 GMT I just found out yesterday that my email address, tom AT flash-remoting.com, has not been working. I don't know how long this has been happening, but it was a DNS issue that should be resolved now. I switched registrars a few weeks ago and there were... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=53 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=53 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:36:54 GMT Community MX has released an interview with Lucian Beebe, senior product manager at Macromedia, focused on developer and applications support for Macromedia Flash. The interview goes into some detail about Remoting and the future of using Flash to co... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=52 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=52 Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:27:56 GMT Jorge Solis has written a nice tutorial on using Justin's Remoting connector for Flash MX 2004. You can find it at http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/update/. The tutorial covers AMFPHP, but I'm sure it could be easily adapted to ColdFusion, Java, or ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=51 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=51 Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:19:05 GMT Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide is now shipping. Amazon has started filling orders, and the book should be generally available in bookstores shortly. Thanks for all the support and encouragement I've had. If anyone has any questions or comments,... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=50 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=50 Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:11:45 GMT Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide is now available on Safari, the online book resource. Check it out at http://safari.oreilly.com/ if you have access to Safari, or sign up for a free 14 day trial.... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=49 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=49 Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:18:29 GMT I have an article on Community MX that shows Flash connecting to the Community MX SOAP-based web service using Flash Remoting. Although Flash MX Pro 2004 has SOAP support, the support is rather bulky AND does not allow you to connect to web services ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=48 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=48 Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:29:15 GMT Time for a rant. There is an interesting discussion going on at Mike Chambers' blog about Flash MX 2004. One of the gripes that seems to come up a lot--and is on the top of my gripe list--is the Help documentation for Flash. I'm a big pro... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=47 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=47 Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:30:49 GMT Justin Watkins just posted this on the AMFPHP mailing list, but it is of interest to anyone working with Flash Remoting. Here is his post: "I've got a nice version of the remoting components working for MX 2004. I converted all of t... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=46 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=46 Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:41:08 GMT There is an excellent article that compares Flash Remoting with SOAP at http://www.flashorb.com/articles/soap_vs_flash_remoting_benchmark.shtml that further solidifies my belief that the new SOAP functionality of Flash 7 leaves a lot to be desired. T... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=45 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=45 Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:52:51 GMT O'Reilly has posted an article I wrote entitled "Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application". Also, check out the O'Reilly site for a newly-posted table of contents, sample chapter, and the full index from the book. The book should... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=44 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=44 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:00:48 GMT One thing that has changed in the Flash Player 7 that relates to Flash Remoting is the way that security is implemented. If you are using Flash Remoting, or any other form of data loading (LoadVars, web services, or XML) you should set up a cross-dom... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=43 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=43 Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:56:35 GMT There is finally an update to the rather bare help system of Flash MX 2004. You can click the update button in the Help panel in Flash to update the contents with new content about components and other things (the missing pieces). This is a disturb... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=42 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=42 Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:34:39 GMT Many people are wondering if Flash Remoting still supported in Flash MX 2004. The answer is "Yes", however I think the next few months will be a transition period. The latest Flash Remoting components from Macromedia still utilize Actio... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=41 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=41 Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:48:33 GMT For those of you chomping at the bit for information about ActionScript 2.0, which is part of Flash MX 2004, check out Joey Lott's site at http://www.person13.com. Joey is a fellow O'Reilly author who just came out with the book ActionScript Cookbook... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=40 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=40 Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:35:50 GMT Macromedia released the Flash Remoting components for Flash MX 2004 yesterday. You can download them here: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting/downloads/components/ Also, thanks to Tim in the comments on my previous post for posting a ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=39 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=39 Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:43:50 GMT One of the amazing things about this release of Flash is the documentation. . .or rather the lack of documentation. When you open the PDFs that are downloaded with the Flash Professional trial, you get this: DataGrid component For the latest inf... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=38 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=38 Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:56:02 GMT Studio MX 2004 has been announced, and there are significant upgrades to Flash, HomeSite+, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. From a Flash Remoting perspective, not much has changed. Flash Remoting was, and continues to be, the best solution for building ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=37 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=37 Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:30:38 GMT I've been getting a lot of emails asking when the book will be out. It is currently in production and will be out very soon.Amazon is currently offering 30% off the title with free shipping. They have the book erroneously listed as 400 pages. It is o... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=36 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=36 Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:41:57 GMT The Red Sky upgrade is finally here. This is the one we've been waiting for. I did an article on some of the new features here: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=A690E0CF3D96CB0F Find out more details about the upgrade at Macrome... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=35 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=35 Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:08:56 GMT Branden Hall created the CMX Remoting Tester for Flash MX that has been a very popular download at Community MX. Using the Remoting Tester, you can test your remote service methods from within the Flash MX interface. I've ported the panel to work wit... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=34 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=34 Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:21:40 GMT One of the questions I see over and over again is "how do I see the recordset result in Flash?" When a developer returns a recordset to the Flash movie, there is no simple way to trace the results. You can view in the NetConnection ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=33 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=33 Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:16:57 GMT After suffering through my old Flash-Remoting site design, I've decided to upgrade the look a bit. A big thanks to Angela Buraglia for the concept and logo design, and much help with the implementation.New content will be on the way as the book is pu... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=32 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=32 Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:06:34 GMT This is an old item, but still comes up in the newsgroups, so I'll make a note of it here. There is a bug in the DataGrid implementation from DRK 1. If you add a DataGrid to your page and you find that it displays nothing but blank results, you are s... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=31 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=31 Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:59:27 GMT I'm back from TODCON now, which has evolved from a Dreamweaver-oriented conference into a more rounded conference with everything from CSS and web standards to Flash and ColdFusion to JSP integration with ColdFusion. All of the speakers did a fabulou... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=30 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=30 Fri, 06 Jun 2003 18:58:05 GMT I'm off to TODCON tomorrow for a beginner's session on Flash Remoting (Flash Remoting 101), as well as a couple of Dreamweaver sessions. Other Flash sessions include Firefly: The Flash Data Connection Kit by Raul Hayes, OOP ActionScripting by Branden... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=29 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=29 Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:39:38 GMT There was a question on the Flash Remoting newsgroup yesterday about populating multiple combo boxes from Flash Remoting services. I worked up a quick example that demonstrates using one remote function to handle all the query results. Ba... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=28 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=28 Thu, 22 May 2003 00:01:49 GMT Well, the book finally made it to Amazon.com: Flash Remoting MX: The Definitive Guide. If any of you have been wondering when this site will start having some content, it will be soon, now that the book is finished. It's scheduled to start shipping... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=27 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=27 Mon, 19 May 2003 22:04:59 GMT I received this from Alon Salant yesterday. Many of you may know Alon from the ASTranslator project for Flash Remoting for J2EE. Alon has created a new project which may be a big step towards securing remote services and restricting the serv... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=26 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=26 Fri, 16 May 2003 12:07:59 GMT Today Branden Hall released a cool tool for Flash Remoting that enables you to test your remote services easily through a panel interface. All you have to do is input the URL of the gateway, the service path, and the method call, and the response or ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=25 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=25 Thu, 08 May 2003 13:13:16 GMT Many people are concerned about Flash Remoting services being accessible as web services to clients other than Flash movies. For example, a service set up as a Flash Remoting service can be called easily from a browser window: http://www.flash... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=24 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=24 Wed, 07 May 2003 19:47:56 GMT Macromedia released the Data Connection Kit today (http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2003/data_connection.html). This looks really impressive and should be a nice addition to the Flash Remoting arsenal. The price is $299, which seem... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=23 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=23 Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:32:39 GMT A new site specifically geared towards Macromedia MX development has been launched -- Community MX. The site is created and maintained by 30 experts in the web development field. There is content for Flash MX, Dreamweaver MX, ColdFusion MX, Fireworks... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=22 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=22 Fri, 11 Apr 2003 03:48:00 GMT ColdFusion MX Updater 3 was released yesterday, which also includes the Flash Remoting Updater 1. Anyone running CF MX should run the updater, available here: http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/special/updater/faq/ Make sure you ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=21 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=21 Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:16:32 GMT When building a Flash Remoting application using OOP concepts, sometimes you can't encapsulate the logic as you want. There seems to be a problem with building objects that contain a Flash Remoting service as a property, such as in this co... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=20 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=20 Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:00:13 GMT On March 10, 2003, Macromedia released the Flash Remoting Components Updater 1. The updater fixes many issues, which can be found at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash_remoting/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_updater.html. I was curious ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=19 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=19 Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:31:11 GMT Finally we have a Flash Remoting updater for all versions (CF, Java, ASP.NET)! There appear to be substantial bug fixes, but I have not tried it as yet. The URL is: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash_remoting/updaters.html http://www.macromed... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=18 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=18 Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:22:57 GMT By now everyone has seen the new Macromedia site. This could have been a huge shot in the arm for Flash Remoting, but I think that the site is not really living up to the promises of Rich Internet Applications. For one thing, the navigation ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=17 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=17 Thu, 06 Mar 2003 23:48:16 GMT I realize I haven't written in a while, and I plan to get some tutorials and examples up soon. I've been hard at work on another book, and that usually takes all my extra time. I'll have some news about that soon. Also, at some point I'll turn t... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=16 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=16 Thu, 06 Mar 2003 23:24:35 GMT Many people use the Macromedia support forums to get answers to questions about Macromedia products. The forums at one time were NNTP only, which allowed for quick access in a news reader, like Outlook Express or Netscape Messenger. Recently... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=15 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=15 Sat, 18 Jan 2003 02:20:02 GMT There appears to be a security problem with Flash Remoting. Maybe someone has a workaround, but I've been unable to find one. When you create a Flash Remoting app using a Web service, the Web service can be a URL that is anywhere, as in the... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=14 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=14 Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:23:42 GMT This is huge news for the ColdFusion and J2EE communities, but it is also big news for Flash Remoting. Now you can develop Flash Remoting apps on the Macintosh using JRun 4 or ColdFusion and test locally. This is super cool and makes me want to run o... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=13 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=13 Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:37:37 GMT In Dreamweaver 6.0, Flash panels had a few bugs that prevented them from connecting to the internet when docked--which prevented Flash Remoting from working in a Dreamweaver extension. Also, docking was a nightmare because you had to embed the ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=12 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=12 Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:04:29 GMT I've created an object for JRun 4 ServerSide ActionScript that adds a CF.query() method to SSAS. Basically, all you do is add this code to your .asr file and call CF.query() just as you would if the SSAS file were on a ColdFusion server. The on... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=11 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=11 Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:12:15 GMT I've been playing with ServerSide ActionScript and have been finding out some interesting things. ServerSide ActionScript is not as limited as many would have you believe. It is based on the Rhino JavaScript engine and is fully scriptable wi... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=10 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=10 Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:57:34 GMT One of the key uses for Flash Remoting is to return a recordset to Flash -- using CF or ASP.NET this is a piece of cake. The new RecordSet class in Flash deserializes the incoming recordset from the server and allows you to utilize it easily with D... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=9 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=9 Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:55:12 GMT I've been looking at ServerSide ActionScript lately just to see what is possible and if it's worthwhile using as an alternative to CF in some situations. One of the problems of SSAS is the inability to include files. SSAS files in Flash ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=8 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=8 Sun, 08 Dec 2002 05:33:12 GMT One of the coolest things about ServerSide ActionScript is that it has the full capabilities of ECMAScript, including the RegExp object. Here is a simple demo with a bit of code that you can place in a file called RegExpTest.asr on your Col... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=7 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=7 Thu, 05 Dec 2002 21:51:52 GMT After much trial and error using IIS and ColdFusion MX, I've found a problem with the CFLOGIN authentication system. The problem is in the default IIS settings. To get the <cflogin> tags to work properly -- allowing the setCredentials() method ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=6 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=6 Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:56:56 GMT After working with the trial version of Flash Remoting for ASP.NET for a while from the local computer where it was installed, I was trying out a new DLL from another computer. Apparently the trial 30-day version had expired, but I didn't realize it.... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=5 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=5 Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:52:12 GMT The myASObject.Add("myProperty","myValue") does not work when the property already exists. For that, just set the property directly: myASObject["myProperty"] = "myValue";... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=4 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=4 Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:37:15 GMT I finally figured out a few things in the ASP.NET version of Flash Remoting. I've been trying to piece together the various implementations of object.RegisterClass() on the server side of things. The ServerSide ActionScript implementation tur... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=2 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=2 Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:54:19 GMT Director MX was announced today. Director MX allows Flash Remoting to be used in Director applications. This could be very cool. Director is a little over my head because I'm not a designer or animator, but it means more exposure for Flash R... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=1 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=1 Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:53:44 GMT One of the coolest features of Flash Remoting is the use of object.registerClass() on the Flash side of things to register a custom class. You can then pass these objects to the server, operate on the object, and return the object to Flash ... http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=3 http://www.flash-remoting.com/notablog/home.cfm?newsid=3 Sat, 23 Nov 2002 05:00:00 GMT