blazeDS...FDS is free .................

Can you believe this???
read more
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
http://blog.simb.net/2007/12/12/
blazeds-adobe-open-sources-flash-remoting-and-messaging-servers/
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/amf/amf3_spec_121207.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200712/121307BlazeDS.html

Auto complete texArea

this seems to be nice code ....u get the hint of the text.
http://www.asserttrue.com/articles/2006/04/09/actionscript-projects-in-flex-builder-2-0

Encrypting Data in AIR

In my current AIR project...I have used MD% algorithm to store the password in encrypted format(which is nothing else but a plain text)..and I every time the application starts I read the textfile ......

But just now read about Encrypting Data in AIR
Now thinking why the heck I used so much encryption and decryption :( when there was something like data Encryption was already available.

// Writing encrypted information

var passwordBytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();

passwordBytes.writeUTFBytes("secretPassword");

EncryptedLocalStore.setItem("password", passwordBytes);


// Reading encrypted information

var passwordBytes:ByteArray = EncryptedLocalStore.getItem("password");

var password:String = passwordBytes.readUTFBytes(passwordBytes.length);

details here :
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/archives/2007/12/encrypting_data.cfm

PurpleTrail deskop - My AIR Project

Yes ...Its MY AIR project..in Air beta2 and flex 3... :) and I am damn happy about it. I got a chance to work in these techs and to build a product...I have craved for this chance all through my carrier and yes I got it thanks to my employer for trusting me...I have been a lot busy with this lately..and could not post anything here..

Completed the first part of our product. have a look at the screen shot..Its the desktop version of the app purpletrail.com. Please have a look at the application..the work is still in progress.. losts of new feature will come in. All that we see on web there will come in desktop :) :) :) ..I am too excited about it..May god help me in the future journey of this.

There is lot more to come.. can not summaries in one screen....
The main feature that i wanted to highlight here is the Smiley Textfield..
Yes its our normal textArea class...extended.. and coustmized to read img tag and anchor tag (text in anchor tag gets the special formatting.) these features are not available with our normal textArea..look at the tooltil also.. ToolTip class is also customized to hold the rich text..with img tag.

There are lot many things not just smiley.. like autorize textArea..clickable field in textArea.. etc. etc. Had lots of fun doing this..more fun is waiting for me. I am too impaitent to make it furnish. Thanks God for everything

Image as a toolTip

I just dreamed of it now... and yes dream came true.. :) :)
I found a post by Rich Tretola on his blog "blog.everythingflex.com" where he has posted his example in which we can show a image in the tooltip , all we have to provide is the image url ... Everythingflex.com is really about everything in flex !

Thanks Rich....