While at 360Flex San Jose 08, I sat down with Dan and he interviewed e about juggling all those things I do. Dan just posted the presentation publicly. He said kind words about my presentation too.

I put my name in the title of this blog post for aggregators. It's the first time I've done anything like that and it feels weird. Sitting at the speaker / sponsor dinner of 360Flex San Jose, John and Tom announced they were starting to get into their groove and if we thought the conference needed any changes, we should tell them now. They are definitely getting into their groove. This has been the smoothest and most successful 360 event I've been to.

For those of you who want to find or meet me at the 360Flex conference, my intended schedule is attached. ( Click the download button ) in the footer of this post. On the "empty" slots I'll either be bugging John and Tom at their reg booth or hanging out at the House of Fusion booth. I do not have any breakfast plans for Monday morning yet if someone wants to meet up. And of course, if you're in the area, you're invited to the Star Wars excursion on Wednesday.

I was working on the next episode of The Flex Show's Fifteen Minutes With Flex and came across an issue I thought was worthy of a blog post. The episode will talk about XML and as an example I was writing some Flex code to grab the RSS feed from the Flex Show. This was giving me a run time warning in the debugging console. This was the error: Warning: Domain www.theflexshow.com does not specify a meta-policy. Applying default meta-policy 'all'. This configuration is deprecated.

Did you know you can do cascading assignments in Flex? I had no idea myself. What is a cascading assignment, you ask? Let me attempt to explain. I came across this line of code in the Flex documentation today: measuredWidth = measuredMinWidth = lineMetrics.width + 10; "Huh?" thinks Jeff. How does that work? What is going on here. Basically, this is short hand. It is the structural equivalent of this: measuredMinWidth = lineMetrics.width + 10; measuredWidth = lineMetrics.

Over on FlexCoders, Nate asked how he makes a Flex MXML Component private. I'll quote the important part of his question: I have custom MXML component (ResourcesTree) that has a Tree inside of it. I don't want the Tree to directly be available outside the ResourcesTree Component. His topic makes things a bit confusing. You make variables or methods private so they can't be used outside of a class. A private class would be one that you can't create an instance of?

This question comes in from a fan of The Flex Show. just wanted to drop a thank you, I love the video tutorials and look forward to more. You are most welcome. Part of the reason I haven't been posting around here so much is because I've been super busy. One of those items is that Adobe has come on board as a sponsor for the The Flex Show Video. We've named the series Fifteen Minutes with Flex and it will consist of a bunch of screencasts demonstrating some Flex Development task.

This question comes in from a reader: I'm trying to become familiar with Flex remoting and tie to a CFC on the back end. When I run the flex code and press the button I receive the following error: [RPC Fault faultString="[MessagingError message='Destination 'ColdFusion' either does not exist or the destination has no channels defined (and the application does not define any default channels.

This comes in from a reader Kai who asked why I use WebORB over the LCDS built with ColdFusion. This was Kai's question: I am a long-term passive ColdFusion/onTap community member. Currently I try to figure out if to use WebORB, BlazeDS/LCDS or something else ... onTap does NOT run on BlueDragon so it will not be usable with WebORB, I guess ... My question is: - Do You prefer WebORB over LCDS and if yes, why ? - Is WebORB only recommendable for Flash/Flex clients, or for Ajax clients, too ?

I've had a slew of server problems (more on that later), so instead of a real post, how about a mind boggler? Using, Flex / ActionScript3, write a function that takes a domain string as the input and strips out the subdomains. For example, my domain is "www.jeffryhouser.com". Write some code to give you "jeffryhouser.com". That shouldn't be hard. But, wait there is more. My local development URL is "local.www.jeffryhouser.com". If I pass it this URL, I want "jeffryhouser.com" returned.