I made a quick ‘n dirty sample to illustrate how Drupal services can be called in Flex using keys and authentication: http://www.novio.be/downloads/drupal_services/ (right-click, view source).
As you can see in the example, we have two types of calls. One that’s publicly available to anonymous users and one that requires user authentication. The latter requires some more [...]
I’ve updated my Flex logging target with the possibility to log directly to a text file. Good thing is that you can switch live between catching the log entries in the panel or writing them to a file. Read this blog post to find out how to write logging messages for XPanelOnAIR using Flex’ built-in [...]
I’ve taken my Flex cron editor and integrated it in a sample HTML form. Check out the sample here. We distinguish 3 steps in the setup of the form:
As soon as the Flex component is fully created, it sets JavaScript callbacks and it communicates its readiness to the HTML wrapper.
Then, the cron can be [...]
Look at that title… Now that’s a problem that gave me quite some grief for too many hours: the algorithm to efficiently merge prioritized lists of overlapping date ranges.
First, I thought I had it in a minute, but then I saw it was wrong. After quite some fruitless tweaking of my initial solution, I started [...]
I have improved my “XPanelOnAIR” Flex logging target (I know, that wasn’t hard to do… ).
I threw in 2 new feats. Primo, I’ve added a live word filter: just type and your log messages are being filtered as you type. Thanks for the idea, Jovan! And secundo, you can now double-click a log message [...]
Suddenly, I felt the urge to make a cross platform panel to show Flex logging messages. I was using XPanel by Vladim Melnik from http://www.teamcti.com but that one’s PC only… I kept the same LocalConnection identifier on the receiving end, so my own panel shows the same messages as with the above-mentioned XPanel as logging [...]
To schedule jobs, I’ve found nothing better than using a Cron string, especially when you want to schedule repeating tasks. A Cron allows you to do complex scheduling like launch every weekday at 14h00, except in July and August. Check out this sample with a cron editor and a scheduler test (right-click and view source). [...]
Subversion is probably the best versioning and source control software out there. While you’re working with a Subversion client (like Tortoise SVN, Subclipse or whatever), little hidden folders named “.svn” are being created and maintained in every single folder of your project. Needless to say that in projects with tons and tons of package folders, [...]
