Get Your Flex Map API from the source

Posted by Moxie | October 22, 2007 .

I’ve received some emails asking about the Flex API (ESRI ArcWeb Explorer Flex API) I’ve used, since my posts about a Flex mashup. Charles and me won’t be able to answer all the questions. However, there are two places to get more information:

The official ArcWeb Service web site.
Mansour Raad’s blog ThunderHead Explorer. Mansour is one […]

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Good Old Java Back to RIA World

Posted by Charles | October 22, 2007 .

I was surprised by the progress Java made at RIA end. I am certainly surprised by the react of my surprise. This makes me look deeper into the state of Java, not only at the new comer JavaFX, but also good old Java language itself.
My conclusion, we might do have formed certain stereotype regarding Java […]

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Find People in a Web 2.0 Way

Posted by Charles | October 21, 2007 .

Trying to find somebody? There are couple of startups for people search, alone with all the social networks at you disposal. For example, I was trying to find and research the status of flex developers in certain area in the US. I might want to throw in couple of odd criteria that just popped into […]

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Some more Flex Application Demos

Posted by Charles | October 21, 2007 .

We used to be excited by Flex applications sighting on the web. Not anymore. There are quite usual you bump into some Flex goodies, even though the best Flash based web applications are still mostly pure Flash applications.
I would think buzzword alike full blow Flex application should be seen more and more. Anyway, here is […]

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You’d Think Google is Algorithm Driven

Posted by Charles | October 20, 2007 .

Google AdSense was down this morning. It’s a rare opportunity to see Google’s error message. We got a screen shot of it. And you would think the “Do No Evil” Google is totally algorithm driven, fair and square and that’ll apply to the error message too. Think again.
First observation is that Google support this many languages in its […]

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Flash mashup with weather, map and locations

Posted by Charles | October 20, 2007 .

Here is a very simple Flash mashup application, Matter of Time. It shows a world map and location point with weather information.
If you drag the window size to different directions, you will find the menu icon. From there you can add your own points, a airport location in a country. If you can find the […]

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Flex Mashup III-Salesforce Pipe Map Flickr News

Posted by Moxie | October 19, 2007 .

After Flex Mashup I and II posts, here is the meat part of it, the code.
There are really two extra Flex APIs to deal with, Map API and Salesforce Flex API. I’ve tried use Adobe RSS Flex parser lib but it kept giving parsing error when parse Pipe’s RSS feed. So gave it up.
Map API
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Flex Mashup II - Salesforce,Yahoo Pipe,Map,Flickr

Posted by Moxie | October 17, 2007 .

In last post I started with the overview of what I created this multiple mashup Flex application. Now let’s get to the details.
First, I created two piples with Yahoo Piple:

mapprs
This one setup a persistent search at Bloglines, Findory, Google Blog Search, Google News, IceRocket, MSFT Live News, Technorati, and Yahoo! News. then do a […]

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Silverlight still Hangs and I’m not alone

Posted by Charles | October 16, 2007 .

I wrote about newer Silverlight froze machines. The latest version of it doesn’t help. It freezes my PC from both Firefox and IE6/7. Have been searching solution but with no success. Here I found a thread of discussion at silverlight.net, where the same issue pinged back and forth. If anyone interested, follow it there and […]

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