I can’t believe Apple’s new developer agreement. It is draconian. When people complain about Microsoft practices of stomping competition, or fear that with Google’s size they are losing their “Don’t be evil” matra, they need to take a look at this new agreement.
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Come-on Apple!
Friday, April 9th, 2010iPhone apps with Flash
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Looking forward to the official CS5 release!
Flex Forms and PHP
Monday, January 19th, 2009Does anyone really like HTML forms? Seriously, just say no to HTML forms! Most of the IDEs and server-side technologies give you some visual tools to handle html form creation and validation but these tools lock you into specific technology and still leave the problem of cross-browser formatting up to the developer. After looking at Flex it seems like a potential answer to the cross-browser formatting problem and supports using whatever server-side technology you desire.
Here’s a quick sample to show you want can be done. The MXML source for a form is below. The form includes simple validation and will post to a web server that is running PHP. The post variables are echoed back to the Flex form.
How to deploy this example
1. Download SampleForm.mxml, edit the url in the httpservice to point to your web server and build the Flex project.
2. Download Form.txt, rename Form.txt to Form.php and move it to your web server
3. Preview the Flex form!
Flex MXML File
[The requested file http://threegerbers.com/examples/SampleForm.mxml could not be found]
PHP file to handle the response
[The requested file http://threegerbers.com/examples/form.txt could not be found]
Only someone with a PhD
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008Researchers in the U.S., Switzerland and the Netherlands use a cluster of Playstation 3s to hack web site certificates. Seriously, that’s what a group of PhD’s do when they get their hands on 200 Playstation 3s? Check out the story at http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/berlin.html.
