Here’s a little widget we just finished up that shows our international audience:
This is the total number of people from each country that’s using the SearchCoders/Dashboard. It’s great to see so many people around the world using and working with Flex and Apollo. It’s also fun to chat with people all over the world. So download the app and drop in for a chat.
Nathan over at bsi has just announced the release of his Flex barcode component. It has support for various types of barcode formats, from code 39 to 128b-c and intervleave. Very nice. I can imagine this being used in a sales application to print out the barcode/label using Flex print support.
I am not a number! I am a free man!
A demo is here: http://flex2.bsi-scs.com/BarCodeDemo/index.php
You can download a compiled SWC from the same page.
I think we’ll continue to see useful Flex components, libraries, and applications delivered by companies and independent developers. These types of demos help developers and companies make the case for using Flex in real-world applications.
Nice work Nathan!
I’m happy to announce the release of my syntax highlighting library written in ActionScript 3. It’s released under a BSD license, so have at it.
I wrote this library for the SearchCoders/Dashboard. It’s used in the chatrooms so that geeks can send each other pieces of code and have that code show up nicely colored and styled, just the way we like it ;) You can easily add a language to parse some other type of content that is not currently supported. And it’s based on the language grammar definition that TextMate uses, so you can bring your own definitions from there instead of having to figure out how to write them on your own.
Here’s an example:
Here’s a screen cap:
The project home page is here:
http://labs.searchcoders.com/text/
Tom and I will be releasing additional components and libraries that we wrote for the Dashboard. We want to support the use and development of these projects so I will be setting up SVN and a bug tracking system. For the moment, download the library’s zip file and post any bugs, comments, questions, and suggestions to this blog. Or, drop by the SearchCoders/Dashboard chatroom and chat with us.
Enjoy!
I’m moving to a different server and doing some blog-keeping. Please standby.
Update: done!
Today tom and I released the next version of our apollo app and it’s awesome. you should check it out:
http://labs.searchcoders.com/dashboard/demo/
There’s a screencast and instructions for how to download it.
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