Future of Web Apps conference videos
The Future of Web Apps Conferences just happened recently, and they have videos up of the talks.
Great things to watch when you have time though it can be a bit of an overload.
What’s been keeping me away
Well realized I hadn’t posted anything lately so I figured I should do an update.
Been playing a lot with Flex and can’t wait to get some real work done with it. Played around and got it talking to a Database through PHP and that was cool. Been looking at how to skin the apps so we can make some nice looking ones.
Started writing a Groupwise Flex Chat client and hit a pretty big road block. The issue is when making the login request to the server they want you to identify the local port you assigned to talk to it (which is stupid since the server already knows this information because I’m talking to it from that port) which unfortunately it seems I can’t get that information from the socket. Still poking around trying to find somewhere to get it but no luck so far. This doesn’t stop the project but changes how it would work. Now it would have to talk to a middle man that handles all this stuff which makes it not as “flex”able as I had intended because I was wanting to convert it to an AIR app that people could use from their desktop to connect. Now we could open up the middleman to the outside world to handle this but I really wished for a way around it.
Lately a big thing that’s been taking up a bunch of my time is that we are moving our CMS from Solaris to Linux. This is a big annoyance because the software provider says they support Solaris but it’s pretty obvious they don’t after having them attempt to troubleshot our “Going Live” issue. They said they couldn’t duplicate the issue on an OSX machine????????? We are now looking to move to a Suse machine and the test server I setup on a past dump of the database (running on the same MySQL server on the same Solaris box) and have had no issues. Should be a simple move once we have our live server up and going and the longest part will be waiting on the dns change for the name.
Still trying to figure out what I want to give presentations on next semester. Probably talk about RIA’s and hopefully I hear something that others might want to hear about so we can have talks on it.
Other then that hopefully I’ll catch some tutorials that really peak my interest and I’ll share but been kind of stale lately out there with things.
Have a good holidays if I don’t post before then.
PHP Seminar Slides
Well since I have time before the presentation starts I figured I could throw the slides up now and not have to worry about it later.
Since the PHP is processed so you can’t see the code behind it I have made a zip of the entire project and that is available in the last link.
Hope this helps some of you out.
Slides and examples from the JS Seminar
Yeah yeah, took me a while to get this up but have been quite busy the last 2 weeks having to get a bunch of things ready for a meeting today so I haven’t been on my laptop where the slides were.
Giving the PHP talk tonight and still working on the slides to back to that 
Flex Builder Linux alpha
Adobe has released a alpha version of their Flex Builder for Linux. Don’t have my laptop with me tonight but will definitely grab tomorrow and install and hopefully it will be a nice tool to use on the linux side to create Flex applications.
Once I have some time to play with it I’ll try to put a seminar together to give you guys an intro to it. This will most likely be a second semester seminar.
There is a lot of power over the web gained by Flex and hopefully over the next year we will really begin harvesting it for the university and making lots of spiffy things. If only there were enough play hours in the day
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Well it requires that you have Feisty Fawn so it’s a no go for right now. This could start me on a Java rant but I’ll hold off for now
Intro to HTML seminar
Well the first seminar has come and gone. Hope I didn’t bore everyone to bad.
I’ve put the slides up here.
Example page is here.
Hopefully I can get the video together soon and have that uploaded as well.
Hope everyone got something out of the training and now knows a little more then they did when they came in.
See you all in a week for the Javascript seminar.