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Manage your notes / Code snippets with Snippely

Me2resh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:27:35 +0000

It has been a challenge for me to keep tracking code snippets I want to remember, I have always used text files, or sending my self email with the snippet that I feel I am gonna need to look at again in the future, same for notes also.

Today I have found this nice Air App called Snippely, it allow you to manage your notes / code snippets, It is enough for me and better than text files and emails, I believe I am gonna stick to it for now.

Only Two options I wish to see in the coming version, to backup / restore the data & to sync the data across many machines, but like I said, I am happy with what I have now.

You can get Snippely from their Google Code page : http://code.google.com/p/snippely/

I hope you will find it as much useful as I did.

Zend Framework, Flex & PHP – Best Practice Cautions

Me2resh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:01:10 +0000

Hey guys,

recently me and my flex developer colleague had a weird problem while exchanging data from zend framework to flex as web services using json.

well, 1st caution :

 echo "Json = $encoded_json_data"; ?>

don’t ever use a closing tag ” ?> ” in your controllers or classes, as it will result in new line in the output json data, which will make flex not able to recognize it correctly.

2nd caution :

 echo "Json = $encoded_json_data"; ?>

when u echo output from php don’t leave space between the variable and the equal “=” sign and also between the equal “=” sign and the value.
to be clear :
example 1 :

This won’t work as flex will not recognize a value for the variable Json.
example 2 :

This will work because we removed the spaces.

hope u don’t fall in this trap as we did.
& enjoy

Quick dive into Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex)

Adobe to contribute AMF support to Zend Framework

Me2resh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:50:07 +0000

Hey folks,
i have read this great news yesterday, that Adobe has made a proposal for an AMF (Action Message Format) component in Zend Framework.
what a great addition to the strong & superior framework.
this will facilitate my work a lot with my colleagues here that works with Flex, we have been developing some Air applications, and as a solution of the interaction between Flex & PHP we used web services to exchange the data in Json format between us, it works fine, but having the options of AMF will make it more powerful and smooth.
long live ZF, long live flex

here is the link for the news i got :
http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/07/adobe-to-contribute-amf-support-to-zend.html

and here is the link for the proposal :
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Amf

Enjoy

Quick dive into Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex)