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Come join me at http://www.chatopica.com/topics/flex

Quick announcement early on: microsoft collaborating to provide apache poi support for office open xml.

Hey everyone, Tom and I are demoing our SearchCoders/Dashboard app at max. We are one of five winners of the Adobe AIR derby and so we have a booth in the community pavillion where we’re showing the app. There are other derby winners, like Ed Finkler, demoing their apps here too.  So, come by and say hi.   We’ll be here tomorrow and we’ll be in the chat all day.

I’ve put a little chat widget for chatting about python on my blog sidebar.

I use IRC to chat with other programmers and I’m used to showing my code using a pastebin.  But when Tom and I started writing this flash chat widget I decided to come up with something that would let me paste code inline but not pollute the chat with a ton of code, so we came up with the syntax hiliting and code folding you see in this Flash chat widget.

There are other programming topics available for the widget but I decided to put the python chat room on my blog because that’s the language I love to work in.   Many of you come here looking for help with Tomcat and FDS so you figure I might be more of a Java guy …  I’ll explain why the emphasis in an upcoming post and how Python will come to play a greater role in my work.

If you want to put the flash chat widget on your blog just check out: http://www.chatopica.com/.  There are many more topics, like Java, Ruby on Rails, and even a Book Club for the literary types.  If you have WordPress there’s a widget you can use to install the Chatopica widget.

Hey everybody,

the next Los Angeles Flex Users Group is all about using Flash CS3 and Flex. Check out the announcement on the laflex site for more info:

Flash meet Flex: Los Angeles Flex Users Group Meeting: June 12th, 7-9

Hope to see you there.

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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I’m proud to announce that Tom Bray and I have just launched SearchCoders/Flex, a powerful Flex based application for searching and keeping up with the Flexcoders search list. That and consulting for Stanford university has kept me away from posting, but I’ll soon be back with articles about our experiences using Flex and FDS to build the SearchCoders/Flex app.

In the meantime, have a look http://www.searchcoders.com/flex/

Happy coding!

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