When most people decide to build a socket server for their Flash/Flex projects they usually turn toward using Java since there are many excellent ways to go about building on some great frameworks. Today however I’ll quickly build a socket server using Stackless Python and communicate to Flash CS4.
Building a Flash Chat Socket Server with Stackless Python
October 21st, 2009Getting started quickly with Diesel for Python
October 5th, 2009Diesel is a project similar to Tornado. From the Diesel website they describe it as: “Diesel is a framework for writing network applications using asynchronous I/O in Python”. Today we will build a simple Diesel application and communicate with it via Telnet. The potential of Diesel is exciting when you begin to understand how you could use it for Comet based applications.
Getting started with mongoDB and Python
September 25th, 2009Introducing WEB2PY: Build a Python web app in less than two minutes
September 4th, 2009I discovered web2py last night. This is unlike any web framework you’ve ever seen and its open source and 100% free. With web2py the batteries are included and there is zero to install additionally or configure. Its all self-contained, in fact you don’t even need a code editor to work with the scripts since one is provided and hosted in the web browser. The language used is Python and you’ll find a Python interpreter is already included as well. Simply download, extract, and then run the executable and your up and running and ready to create your first web app.
Starting with JSF, JBoss RichFaces, AJAX, and Tomcat
August 1st, 2009This article will show you how easy it is to setup the JBoss Tools (including RichFaces support) with Eclipse 3.5. I’ll deploy the finished app to Apache’s Tomcat server. I will also make use of the built-in AJAX support in RichFaces as well. Some experience with JSF (JavaServer Faces) would be helpful but not necessary but you should be familiar with the basics of using Eclipse.
Mojo SDK available to all (Palm Pre)
July 16th, 2009The Mojo beta SDK is out now (officially):
http://blog.palm.com/palm/2009/07/mojo-sdk-available-to-all-.html
Get started right away with the “Hello World” tutorial.
Learning: Flex and XML as easy as 1…2…3
June 23rd, 2009ActionScript 3.0 made working with XML much easier than prior versions. In ActionScript 3.0 XML is treated as a native data type. In this article I’ll show you just how easy it is to work with XML and Flex.
JavaFX 1.2: An introduction for developers
June 8th, 2009As a developer I’m starting to become somewhat picky with the technologies I spend my time to learn since there are so many “pet” programming languages, new toolkits, new frameworks, etc. JavaFX launched approximately a year ago. I’ve already got a pretty good grasp on Adobe’s Flash/Flex tools as well as a working knowledge of Microsoft’s Silverlight. I have limited time in how much I can digest new technologies so I don’t like to spend my time with something I won’t potentially use. With that said I’ve recently taken a look at JavaFX to see what it might offer.
Getting Java and Flex talking via XML
May 22nd, 2009Yesterday I showed you how to get Perl and Flex communicating via XML. Today I’ll do the same thing but this time with Java, in particular a Java Servlet.
