Flash, Flex & Web service problems I always have a tough time deploying a Flash/Flex based app that uses web services. And we use web services (or similar) on almost all projects! Every two or three months I come across a new problem with web service deployment and have to spend some long hours finding and fixing it. The post describes […]
Laszlo code hinting with Dreamweaver If you want to use Dreamweaver to edit your OpenLaszlo files (.lzx), here’s a forum thread that will give you all the tools needed. The technique involves: adding in a TagLibrary for LZX and then setting .lzx as an HTML extension so that Dreamweaver can open and edit .lzx files. Worked with Mac for me. […]
Pandora: Identifying music Learnt about a few interesting sites recently. They are quite unique and show excellent opportunities. They will shoot into the limelight very soon! The first is Pandora. Pandora is a music discovery service that is based on the “Music Genome” project. Music Genome project was started about five years back to analyze the various types […]
Funny characters, Webservices and UTF8 I was importing the Foss.In speakers and talks data into Glancer, and it started giving me some strange errors. This is what I got in OpenLaszlo: error: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. And when I tried using PHP, this was the string: SOAP-ENV:Server SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string ‘some string here’ is not a […]
OpenLaszlo – documentation typos This is really a small thing, but can cost you a few minutes to figure out! The OpenLaszlo documentation has a few typos. The first I noticed, was the Debug.Write() instead of Debug.write(). There are other case mistakes like that. Generally these typos occur in the examples provided. If you see the LZX Reference, the […]
