Today I listened to the http://www.coldfusionweekly.com/,ColdFusion Weekly podcast. The topic was http://www.coldfusionweekly.com/index.cfm?event=showArchive#3-07,Flex Frameworks Roundtable Peter and Matt got together the different "voices" of the Flex Frameworks out there and got them talking. Speaking personally the saying, "If all you have is a hammer, then everything is a nail" rings true for my experience with frameworks.

In my http://www.harrisfamily.net.nz/devblog/index.cfm/2008/3/10/Simple-Effects-on-a-Form--Flex-Example,previous post I had an example on simple effects in Forms. As was quickly pointed out in the comments, if you click on the "Toggle Form" button quickly so unexpected behavior happens. Try it if you like: My Flex Playing requires Adobe Flash Player 9. Get Adobe Flash.. var fo_form2_20080311 = new SWFObject("/devblog/enclosures/formexample/FormLayout_complete.

Lately I have been working on a Flex application and I have been enjoying the ease that the Flex framework allows a developer like me to add some nice looking effects very simply. In my example I have a form, and this form has a Advanced mode which, when selected, will display extra fields for the user to fill in. As you can see in the first application below, when you click the "Toggle Form" button the extra fields are shown or hidden. My Flex Playing requires Adobe Flash Player 9.

http://www.shadocms.com,Straker have just announced that http://www.webonthepiste.com,Web on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piste,Piste is happening again. The conference is a deliberately smaller conference of only the low hundreds of attendees available. This means you get get access to the speakers to talk to between sessions etc. The years theme is "Usability and Rich Internet Technologies" and one of the speakers that has been secured at this stage is http://www.rhjr.

Just a follow up on a previous entry to let all interested know that the RSVP for Wellington and Auckland are open for the special FXUG meeting at the end of the month! http://nzfug.eventbrite.com See you there!

Just reading over my blog feeds this morning and I noticed http://blog.xsive.co.nz/,Campbell Anderson has become an http://blog.xsive.co.nz/archives/261,Adobe Ambassador! Congratulations Campbell. I have been on the receiving end of his help, and think Adobe (via http://www.flexdaddy.info,Andrew Spaulding) have made a good choice in asking Campbell for this role. Campbell's knowledge in Flex and willingness to share that knowledge has helped me out a few times my Flex forays.

At the end of February, the http://www.fxug.org.nz,New Zealand Flex User Group, in association with the http://www.cfug.org.nz,New Zealand ColdFusion User Group are having a special event! Seats will be limited, so be ready to RSVP ASAP when you can! The RSVP site will be announced soon! (promise) See http://www.fxug.org.nz and http://www.cfug.org.nz/fxug for more details! I'd suggest signing up on the Flex User Group's http://groups.google.com/group/nzfxug,mailing list too!

The team at http://www.getoutsmart.com/,OutSmart have resurfaced from 12 months of self declared "Stealth Mode" according to this Blog: http://blog.getoutsmart.com/archives/2008/01/09/nz-entrepreneurs-going-to-town-on-web/,nz-entrepreneurs-going-to-town-on-web The result of this time is "http://www.smallworlds.com/beta/,Small Worlds" which is an online world, powered by http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/,Flex, produced by http://www.getoutsmart.com/,OutSmart.