Last night while the world slept (ok, most American timezones), Adobe announced that they were open sourcing Flex. Once again the Labs site is being used to host information: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source There you will find a a pretty lengthy faq about their move to open source as well. Hopefully we will see this up on RIAForge!

Kyle Hayes has posted an excellent captivate demo that walks you through hooking up a Flex DataGrid to a ColdFusion query. He covers the complete process from Flex Project creation to writing the ColdFusion CFC. This is an excellent demonstration for folks who are having a hard time wrapping their head around the process. Captivate Tutorial: Viewing a ColdFusion Query in a Flex DataGrid By the way - Captivate is incredibly useful.

Last night I ran into an issue I just couldn't understand with some Flex development I was doing.

Last night I ran into an issue I just couldn't understand with some Flex development I was doing.

Need to hire someone for Flex development? (Outside of me... when I'm free... which isn't now of course ;) Ted Patrick, Adobe Flex Evangelist, posted a list of top Flex firms out there. As Ted says on his blog, this isn't an official "Adobe-list" of preferred companies, but simply a personal list of who he sees out there leading the pack. (Makes me wonder if we need such a list for ColdFusion as well. That couldn't lead to any controversy, could it?

Need to hire someone for Flex development? (Outside of me... when I'm free... which isn't now of course ;) Ted Patrick, Adobe Flex Evangelist, posted a list of top Flex firms out there. As Ted says on his blog, this isn't an official "Adobe-list" of preferred companies, but simply a personal list of who he sees out there leading the pack. (Makes me wonder if we need such a list for ColdFusion as well. That couldn't lead to any controversy, could it?

I had an interesting problem to fix today in Flex and I thought I'd share my solution. I'm not sure it is the best solution, but maybe someone can suggest an improvement.

Doug McCune (I think that is his last name - why don't bloggers have a 'Who Am I' page?) has announced the launch of FlexLib - a collection of Flex 2 components - all open source and free for use. I've wanted to build such a site for a while but I'm glad folks didn't wait for my lazy rear to get to it. The repository already has a good set of components for folks to use.

Doug McCune (I think that is his last name - why don't bloggers have a 'Who Am I' page?) has announced the launch of FlexLib - a collection of Flex 2 components - all open source and free for use. I've wanted to build such a site for a while but I'm glad folks didn't wait for my lazy rear to get to it. The repository already has a good set of components for folks to use.

Ok, so Flex 2 charts rock. But - I ran into an issue yesterday that drove me mad. All I wanted was a simple bar chart. Yet nothing I tried would work right. Turns out that if you want a bar chart with one series of data (like sales of one product over the last few months) it won't work. You have to use a Column Chart. Silly me thinking that a bar chart was a bar chart! Turns out that BarChart is only used for multiple bars. Lesson learned.