Project Presentation Sign-up for Monday, December 1

Remember that if you sign up to present on Monday, I’ll be a bit more lenient on your presentation grade. You also don’t have to have 100% of your project done, but enough to demonstrate what your project will be when it is complete. Please sign up by posting a comment below listing [...]

Final Exam Date and Time

There’s not an exact match on the official exam schedule, so let’s go for 9-noon on the first Monday of exams. That’s December 8th at 9am in the usual location.

Flex and Media, Javascript Libraries, and AJAX

Free chapter on Flex and Media
Media Player in Flex
scriptaculous
jquery
Yahoo User Interface (yui)
AJAX

Flex with Server-Side XML and PHP

On Monday, we talked about how to use XML in Flex, both to read in information for the combo box and for filling a data grid. We also demonstrated a PHP script that will re-write your XML file based on the user’s actions. That example can be found here.
I’ve already posted the simpler [...]

HW6

Assignment 6
Assigned: Wednesday, November 12th
Due: Wednesday, November 26th
Title: Your CMS in Flex
Scenario:
Author a backend editor for your XML blog in Flex. This backend will consist of a few simple input fields to post a new entry (HW3), a data grid that will display all of the entries and their fields, and a button that [...]

HTML Attributes in XSL

I’ve linked a simple example of XML and XSL that shows how to generate attributes (eg. href, src, style) for HTML elements in XSL. You might find them handy!
Client List XML
Client List XSL

Flex Topics

Here are the topics we talked about today and links to the examples I demonstrated/explained in class.
At the end are two applications that I built last semester relating to these topics. Check them out, particularly the second one, as it relates directly to your HW6.
Data Binding in Flex
Data Grid
XML in Flex
E4X with XML in [...]

HW3 and HW4 Grades

As some of you have noticed, I posted HW3 and HW4 grades late last night on myUCF Grades. Here are some brief explanations of the comments that I posted explaining your grades. If any of the below can be fixed and resubmitted by one week from Monday, I’ll give you back some additional [...]

Flex Intro

First, make sure you visit https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flex/ to get your free copy of Flex Builder 3. You can use the trial for 60 days before you have to register, but verifying that you are a student will get you that registration.
Once installed, visit http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/ to get started building simple Flex applications!