I do feel like I have been neglecting this blog a bit over the past few months, but unfortunately moving from one country to another tends to take up a fair amount of time.
I’m now nicely settled in New York City, and have furniture in my apartment! All in all, the transition has been quite smooth, and I’ve found everyone to be friendly - obviously, I’m sure my charm and English accent has also played a part!
Last Wednesday I went along to Flash Coders New York, which was great fun, with an excellent presentation by Seb on the Arduino board, which allows you to do a bit of home electronics hackery, controlled by Flash.
In other news my book, Creating Mashups with Adobe AIR and Flex 3.0, has gone off to the printers and should be on the shelves come April 28th. More on that over the coming weeks, but in the meanwhile, I would heartily recommend that you go and check out Adobe AIR.
More soon…
May 19th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Chris, sorry to leave a question as a comment - and it is probably a lame question too … I’m reading your ‘Creating Mashups’ book and I’m working through chapter three’s example. The trouble is that when I run the example from Flexbuilder I see a security error like this ( fragment ):
Security error accessing url” faultCode=”Channel.Security.Error” faultDetail=”Destination: DefaultHTTP”] at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::fault ….
From what I can gather there is some sort of sandbox - I think it isn’t great if I can’t run this from Flex. Please could you advise me on what I’m doing wrong/how to run the example. I’m having trouble finding a documented solution and I’m really new to flash.
Many thanks.
Anton
May 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Anton,
Let me take a closer look into it - I have a feeling that this is due to some of the recent changes to the Flash Player security sandbox…. watch this space!
May 27th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Thanks for looking into it. Maybe I’m just doing something wrong - but I downloaded the latest Flexbuilder trial and even took the zipped bundle of code from the book’s website. Does it still work for you?