Phil 10.6.2010

8:00 – 9:00 pm

  • Masha M. Is still poking around in VISIBILITY
  • Talked with Frank G. about Dong and VISIBILITY. Explained that Dong had been on Catwalk, but moved to SENSIAC when the money dried up. Then I showed Frank the current state of VISIBILITY, which he liked a lot. He’s going to see if S2F would be interested in a financial entry system like S33P.
  • Dong is having a problem with building MySqlIf. Among the problems, it looks like selectNode is working too simplistically. Switched to findNodeByFullName(), which needed to be tweaked as well.
  • Flex in a week
    • Day 2 Episode 5
      • You can now set conditional breakpoints. Right click on the breakpoint, select “properties”, and then set the condition (i.e. “foo > 10”);
    • Day 2 Episode 6
    • Day 2 Episode 9
  • Helped Keil out with some remote object and warfile building
  • Flex Users Group
    • Presentation by Chris Gemignani of Juce Analytics. They have developed a set of open-source libraries for handling large sets of data client-side in Flex. The product is called JuceKit (http://www.juicekit.org/)
    • JuceKit is  built on the flare actionscript library (http://flare.prefuse.org/), which is also a good resource. Nice high performance as well.
    • Another very cool thing was  protovis, which was written by the guy who wrote flare. It’s all in javascript and looks amazingly good. It runs in Firefox and Chrome, but doesn’t in IE. Not sure about the others.
    • Juce Analytics is starting to use Maven to do their builds. Apparantly they’ve gottenthings working well with FB4? I got Chris G’s contact information, and will pursue – (chris.gemignani@juiceanalytics.com, phone: 571.205.4789)