Here is a simple "Hello World" type of application using Cairngorm Extensions from Universal Mind.

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at the RIA conference Web on the Piste 2008 on the topic of "Testing for Success". Over the past few years, I've worked with many ColdFusion and Flex development teams. It has been interesting to see that there is more interest in test-driven development. However, a lot of times team leaders/company executives overlook the bigger picture and focus on just the details. And the lack of this larger context can lead to less effective/failed testing practices.

Adobe Devnet has a security advisory on the upcoming Flash Player 9 update. The advisory lists a few very important changes to the security model in Flash Player which can possibly impact your existing Flex and Flash applications. The changes are primarily to address the vulnerabilities of the earlier versions of Flash Player (9,0,115,0 and before).

I just saw that Universal Mind Cairngorm extensions for Flex are now set up on RIAForge (thanks Andrew). We have been using the UM Cairngorm Extensions at Straker Interactive (where I work) for ZoomFlex since about six months. One of the features that I really like about the UM extensions is the ability to combine together event-business logic.

Today I wanted to give ColdFusion 8 debugging a try. So, I started followed the instructions on how to setup the enviornment for debugging. After installing ColdFusion 8 extensions for Eclipse, I went to enable debugger in ColdFusion Administrator. The CF administrator instructs that: You must specify this debugger port in the JVM settings of your application server, for example: -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005, and restart the server.

Just saw an interesting article on Engadget that compared iPhone SDK to Windows Mobile, Android, S60 and Toolchain. What is really interesting is that Windows Mobile along with Nokia S60 supports Flash. iPhone, as you know, does not support Flash (and won't support it any time soon, given Apple's comments yesterday about Flash being too slow to run on iPhone). And what is even more interesting is that Microsoft and Nokia have signed a deal to make Silverlight available on Nokia S60 and S40.

I just went to download Flex 3 SDK from the Try Flex Builder 3 page on the Adobe site. The file that downloads when one clicks the "Download Flex SDK 3 for all platforms" link at the bottom of the page is called "flex2_sdk_hf1.zip". When one unzips the file and looks at the readme, it confirms that the SDK vesion is: Version 2.0.1. I presume the "hf1" in the file name suggests that it is Flex 2 SDK with 'hotfix 1'.

The next version of IntelliJ IDEA-- 7.0.3 -- will have built-in support for Flex development.

Over the past few days I've been searching for a Eclipse/Flex Builder plugin that would let me trim the unnecessary spaces left at the end of lines in the code that I work on. I found a very nice extension called AnyEdit that performs the task of trimming extra space very well. I've been using it for a few hours now and it's worked very nicely.