[flexcoders] FDS question

2006-07-17 Thread jeremiah johnson
I read about FDS dozens of times per day on this list, but I can't quite work out exactly what it is. It seems clear that for real-time or highly dynamic data, FDS reigns supreme, but why? What makes FDS better than dynamically generated XML, for example? CLEARLY I'm missing something about

Re: [flexcoders] DAO Best Practices

2006-07-10 Thread jeremiah johnson
To answer your first question, I'd say that you should leave any checking logic out of your DAOs. For clarity, a DAO is where you do your DB querying; it returns Transfer Objects (TOs) as results, and accepts TOs as input for narrowing searches. They usually represent an object that you want

Re: [flexcoders] No0b: Help installing SDK with Eclipse 3.2

2006-07-01 Thread jeremiah johnson
That's just the SDK. To get Eclipse integration you need the Flex Builder plugin. Download the Flex Builder trial and install the plugin to an existing Eclipse installation. Sadly, that bit isn't free. You are, of course, free to write your own Flex to Eclipse integration, as far as I know.

Re: [flexcoders] What is the difference between versions of Flex Data Services

2006-06-29 Thread jeremiah johnson
hank williams wrote: So does this means that with the enterprise servers if you wanted one machine for production and one for failover it would be 40k? Sounds like it. My employer has over 200 load-balanced web servers, and several dozen db servers (all with 2-4 physical CPUs each) and this

Re: [flexcoders] Flash Player 9 is here!!!

2006-06-28 Thread jeremiah johnson
Yeah... if I want [product X] I'll go download it myself. You don't need to shove it in my face when i download something completely unrelated. nothing is more evil than a multi-tiered marketing campaign. Jonas Windey wrote: Why o why does it come with an optional yahoo toolbar L

Re: [flexcoders] running Flex 2 Beta 3 UIs

2006-06-15 Thread jeremiah johnson
off-topic, but i had to laugh at your email disclaimer. leave it to a law firm to create an email disclaimer that is longer than 95% of email messages themselves. -- jeremiah(); Disclaimer: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball. Caution:

Re: [flexcoders] Searching through an array collection

2006-06-13 Thread jeremiah johnson
You need an associative array. You won't need to check for duplicates that way -- its built into the datatype. http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex20beta3/1584.html var myArray:Array = new Array(); var testArray1:Array = [{Classname:class 10,data:1},{Classname:class 10,data:1}]; var

Re: [flexcoders] Release date? Maybe 15th

2006-06-06 Thread jeremiah johnson
Are the pricing and packaging details released yet? Do we know what the Builder will cost? Will it come with Data Services or Charting? -- jeremiah(); Robert Thompson wrote: Release date? Just wondering. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- You