Monthly ArchiveJanuary 2008
Neat Apps 29 Jan 2008 04:48 pm
Pownce Unpublished Protocol
Pownce is a neat little app. It let’s you share note, files, etc. with friends. It’s an early adopter of AIR and a great example of web/desktop integration (webtop?). Pownce comes with a REST API, but the documentation left out a big chuck of the API, mostly related to user login and retrieving private data. After sniff its HTTP traffic, here is what I found,
Flex & Ruby on Rails & Tutorials 26 Jan 2008 08:54 pm
Flex + Ruby on Rails Installation
Flex and ROR make a great team. Both are new kids on the block with a lot of hype behind them, but one thing appeals to me the most is how much code I could save by using the Flex/ROR stack. Don’t just take my word for it, download the frameworks and try it for yourself. Here are some instructions to get you started,
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Flex & Tutorials 19 Jan 2008 02:51 pm
Building SOAP Clients with Flex Builder 3
The Flex platform has always had native support for interacting with Web Services. Flex Builder 3 has taken it one step further with the introspection wizard. Using a modified version of Apache Axis framework, the new wizard generates proxy classes that takes care of Web Service data transfer and event plumbing. With this new tool, an application developer could build a Web Service enabled Flex client in minutes!
