Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-26 Thread ryanm
ling FDS* requires thorough testing which can be a daunting task. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-26 Thread ryanm
gzip support, or are they all dead? > It's handled by the browser, and I don't think there are any more browsers in popular usage that don't support it. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: htt

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-24 Thread ryanm
t any kind of sensible licensing scheme approved, even with the amounts of money we were talking about. I just wonder if they realize how much money they are losing because of their licensing schemes. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/fle

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-24 Thread ryanm
app, which only > uses remoting, gets to the point where it needs to scale, I will probably > switch remoting technologies since it will be more cost effective than the > $40,000 (for two servers) that I will need to spend. > Check out WebORB: $700 per license, no concurrent user limit.

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-24 Thread ryanm
If you have no control over the transport layer, then ther's no question about which one to use, you're stuck with whatever you are currently using. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives:

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-24 Thread ryanm
>I am not clear how what you are talking about relates to the problems > that ted described. > The parsing speed of the transport layer need not be relevant to the "snappiness" and "responsiveness" of your application if you plan appropriately. ryanm -- Flex

Re: [Junk E-Mail - LOW] [flexcoders] Re: Choice of backend systems - which provides

2006-08-24 Thread ryanm
th appropriate planning and a good architecture, which transport method you use is almost irrelevant as long as it is flexible and compatible. ;-) ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.

Re: [flexcoders] Searching for a Flex Developer with UI experience

2006-08-21 Thread ryanm
d they > are looking to move more toward Flash and Flex. > I assume it's a telecommuting job, otherwise you probably would've mentioned what country/state/city the job is in. ;-) ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersF

Re: [SPAM] Re: [flexcoders] Re: decimal numbers in financial applications

2006-08-17 Thread ryanm
> Apparently you acknowledge that it would work but need to keep BigDecimal > for other reasons. > I get the impresson that they want some calculations to be done "real time" on the client, and for that a BigDecimal object would be needed in the client as well as on

Re: [flexcoders] Re: decimal numbers in financial applications

2006-08-17 Thread ryanm
ture and purpose of the app that kind of precision may not be required, but it still makes it a lot easier to fix precision issues when they come up if your logic is all handled in one place. I guess what I'm saying is it depends on the app. ;-) ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FA

Re: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Re: decimal numbers in financial applications

2006-08-16 Thread ryanm
7;s always correct. Once you want to do math on it, neither AS or JS are safe for important calculations, which pretty much means that short of an applett or activex control, there is no such thing as a "safe" web client for financial calculations. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mail

Re: [SPAM] RE: [flexcoders] Re: decimal numbers in financial applications

2006-08-16 Thread ryanm
to be calculated on the client, I just split the number at the decimal and dealt with each piece as an integer. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Gro

Re: [flexcoders] Re: decimal numbers in financial applications

2006-08-16 Thread ryanm
ting a new type would effectively be putting a class between the regular int type and the application, and that class would either be handling the numbers as strings or as seperate integers internally anyway, so how is that any more or less embarrasing? ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: h

Re: [SPAM] [flexcoders] Gantt chart

2006-08-16 Thread ryanm
ow complex does it need to be? Are we talking about charting triple-recessives or just a dom/co-dom/simple recessive chart? Something like that should be easy enough with the datagrid. ryanm -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Sea

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Loading Unicode values from XML and viewing in Flex components as HTML

2006-08-10 Thread ryanm
SL interpreters in browsers or on servers, allow for extensions to be added, but since this isn't possible in the FLash player, a pair of conversion functions (like fromCharCode and toCharCode) would allow conversions to and from unicode without causing incompatibilities. ryanm

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Loading Unicode values from XML and viewing in Flex components as HTML

2006-08-10 Thread ryanm
that I couldn't do this from the XML. > That's because the \u escape sequence is specific to ActionScript. Those sequences are replaced with the actual unicode characters (or some runtime sequence) and are not evaluated by the player. Use the HTML character codes instead:

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Cryptology libraries for Flex

2006-07-20 Thread ryanm
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Re: [flexcoders] Cryptology libraries for Flex

2006-07-20 Thread ryanm
y I can't help, because it's still not working quite right. ryanm Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pR

Re: [flexcoders] Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-11 Thread ryanm
> Open source != open specs. > You can get source on the web if you look for it. > Isn't IE on the Mac dead these days anyway ? > Not even close. Funny how the dev geeks always seem to think so (wishful thinking?), but server stats say otherwise. ryanm -- Flexcoders

Re: [flexcoders] Mac equivalent of ActiveX

2006-07-11 Thread ryanm
n the Macintosh? > Yes... ActiveX. ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1996/oct96/macpr.mspx MS does not own ActiveX, it's actually open source, and you can get full specs here: http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/ax01.htm ryanm ---

[flexcoders] test - ignore

2006-06-30 Thread ryanm
Just joining, test mail to set my email rules ryanm Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/nhFolB