Last night was the inaugural meeting of the Sydney Adobe User Group. Note that it is now a joint group between the Flash User Group and the Coldfusion User Group.
Geoff Bowers did a presentation about “Setting Fire To Your Community”
The presentation was really good and I left the user group meeting with a nice feeling to try and help the opensource communities I daily use.
He gave really good (and a bit funny and disturbing) analogies comparing opensource communities with japanese mummies. Geoff also got into explaining some details about different opensource licensing schemes, and made us aware of the great difference between gpl and lgpl.
Even though most of us might just click next, next, next when downloading most of the software we use… If you are going to use that code in your commercial projects, you should really know what you are getting into and learn about the implications you will have when you distribute your project.
We also learnt that the extjs framework is changing its licensing from lgpl to gpl. This means that if you include that library in your code, you will have to opensource your project.
It was a great meeting and I’m looking forward to the next one. Chris informed us that the meetings will be held on every last Monday of the month, so the next meeting will be on May 26.
April 29th, 2008
The future of coding PHP in FlashDevelop may be quite closer than expected, thanks to user: kuzya (flashdevelop member from russia)
http://www.flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?p=13082
He modified the HaXeContext plugin and now you can see your php class methods and variables in the outline pane. It was a bit buggy, and then Philippe managed to get to get a basic PHP context working overnight!
Philippe’s version is the Flashdevelop SVN. If you would like to know how to compile the source code and get started with FD development go here: Participation [Getting started with FD Development]
If you want to try out the initial HAxe Context by kuzya, you can download the plugin: http://spbgu.ru/upload/kuzya/HTMLContext.dll
Copy that dll in your Flashdevelop plugins folder:
Usually: C:\Program Files\FlashDevelop\Plugins
Open a PHP file in FlashDevelop then select Haxe from the Syntax Menu.
Here’s a screenshot:
April 28th, 2008
When: Mon 28th April (Meet at 6pm for 6:30 start)
Where: Rocketboots.
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With the advent of a number of open source initiatives from Adobe, Geoff Bowers of Daemon will speak on:
A tale of Japanese mummies, karmic balance and benevolent dictators.
Your guide to putting a torch to your open source community. Learn how to set up a flourishing developer community or just help to ignite your favourite.
Please RSVP on http://apugs2008april.eventbrite.com
Note: This is the inaugural meeting of the new Adobe Platform Users Group, Sydney which combines the Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group and the NSW Coldfusion Users Group.
April 23rd, 2008
Just a small reminder that might help anyone getting some weird characters with AMFPHP. It can happen when you copy a full text from Microsoft Word. And the quotes get inserted in your DB.
You might find some funny results like an Euro symbol appearing throughout your text. Uncomment this line in your amfphp gateway:
$gateway->setCharsetHandler("utf8_decode", "ISO-8859-1", "ISO-8859-1");
Here are some examples of text you might find:
‘ = This is the open double quote
’ = This is the close double quote
Here is a good resource if you’re having issues with strange characters and PHP / MySQL: ByteFlex - Fun with utf8, PHP and mysql
January 31st, 2008
Last night the Rocketboots conference room was packed. Danny Dura showed us the new Flex 3 features and also gave an overview of what will be coming with AIR 1.0.
Click here to see the Flex 3 new features.
After seeing what AIR is capable of I’m feeling sorry for Multidmedia Zinc.
I got really excited with AIR, though I have been using some apps, like twhirl… I’m actually writing this blog post with an AIR app, it’s an Adobe AIR Sample “Bee” on labs and it includes the source code.
** UPDATE **
I couldn’t manage to publish with BEE, I was getting a malformed XML error from the publish XML-RPC command. Anyway, the BEE App looks a quite good considering it’s a labs sample. I reckon mixing it up with buzzword would be awesome and also adding drag and drop functionality to publish images. I might look into the source code and give it a try.
Here’s a small video that I took with my mobile at the beginning of Danny’s preso (automatically converted from mobile .3gp to flv by flashCMS):
** UPDATE **
Thanks Joshua for pointing out the slides from the tour by Ben Forta.
January 25th, 2008
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