I was posed with a question the other day about how to keep JavaScript in-line without hosting the mxml file within a container page (ie JSP, HTML, CF, etc). Flex handles in-line JavaScript popups very similar to Flash. If you’ve tried to make a call to:

getURL(”javascript:window.open(’http://www.google.com’, ‘win’, ‘width=600, height=600′);”);

in Flash or Flex you’ll [...]

I’ve been experimenting with GPS over the past couple of years and have learned some interesting things. Last year I bought a Belkin Bluetooth GPS receiver so that I could start talking to it from my Symbian phone. Once I bought this device I was immediately attracted to it’s form factor and ease [...]

As you probably know the default theme for Macromedia Flex is called HaloTheme. I’ve been experimenting with custom themes and if you read any of the docs you’ll see a reference to HaloTheme.fla. In my installation I was unable to locate this file and only had access to pulseBlue and pulseOrange.fla. I [...]

I recently finished an article for MX Developer’s Journal discussing the integration of Flex and ColdFusion. It goes into brief detail about using the Flex Web Services class to consume ColdFusion CFC’s. As in most of the articles I write, I like to provide a sample application because I feel that many developers [...]

I was researching some different text encryption algorithms at work and stumbled across one that works fairly well. If you want to enable a simple means of security then you might find this useful. This beats storing a user’s password in a SharedObject in plain text.

I stumbled across the following algorithm written in [...]