http://www.psalterego.com Thoughts on Faith, Life and Work Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:57:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you’re a newbie just starting on Flex Data Services 2.0 (FDS) and J2EE development, you will most likely go and download FDS from Adobe with the integrated JRun 4 application server immediately followed by a Java Development Kit (JDK) from Sun (if you don’t already have one). And if you’re ... http://www.psalterego.com/2006/11/14/flex-data-services-and-java-jdks/ Wow, Claus Wahlers and Max Herkender are quickly closing the gap between ActionScript 3 and other development platforms’ libraries (read Java and .NET) with their newly-released FZip library. If you haven’t already heard, FZip allows for progressively decompressing zip archives directly in the Flash Player. What’s even better, ... http://www.psalterego.com/2006/09/15/fzip-zip-archives-for-actionscript-3/ Late last fall, with the advent of Firefox 1.5, Mozilla added a handful of new Array methods with the update of the Gecko browser engine to JavaScript 1.6. Apparently, these have also found their way into ActionScript. Sharp eyed Daniel Hai noted last month that these were ... http://www.psalterego.com/2006/05/19/array-extras-for-actionscript/ Back in January, I had started learning ActionScript 3.0 by picking a particularly interesting problem that had been dogging me since I first started building web-based applications in the late 1990s. That problem is, how to build client-side programs that can parse and render binary file formats within a ... http://www.psalterego.com/2006/05/17/parsing-excel-files-with-actionscript-30/