Nascom releases AIR client to register time tracking, using Basecamp backend.
Jun/090
The new born is called Timy, and you can get your free version at http://www.timy.be. It makes time tracking a lot easier, but most of all usable. Great functionality and a lovely design … great job guys !
Extend your Flash Builder beta license today
Jun/090
Only available for Flex 3 license holders : https://freeriatools.adobe.com/flashbuilder4beta/
FlexCamp Amsterdam on November 13th !
Oct/081
Flexcamp is a free community event where you can share knowledge with other Flex developers. There will be lots of sessions : the early sessions will be for starters, and later on it will become more and more advanced. The idea is that you can jump in whenever you feel like … There will be also a room for “unconference” style sessions, these sessions allow you to discuss together with a number of community members on a specific topic of your choice. Get more info on http://www.flexcamp.nl. Also James Ward and Christophe Coenraets will also be around. Flexcamp is organized by the Dutch Flex User Group. Get registered today … seats are limited !
Dr Flex and Dr LiveCycle available for consultation.
Jun/080
The Benelux Presales team is starting from June on with the “dr Flex & dr LiveCycle” events. The idea is to be available 1 day a month for general questions on Adobe LiveCycle ES and Adobe Flex. It’s not about answering typical support questions, but to give advice on general questions like how to implement Adobe LiveCycle and Flex into an enterprise architecture.
“During these sessions “Dr Flex & Dr LiveCycle”, observe your common Flex & LC symptoms. They advise on how to implement Adobe Enterprise Software and work in a healthy IT environment by giving you a FREE ‘health check’ session.”
They also setup a blog where they will post all questions and answers so the community can benefit from this iniative ! Check it out : http://www.drflex.eu
Let's meet at the first Dutch Flex User group event !
Apr/080
The Dutch Flex user group – Flugr - is doing great and organizing their first event on June 13. For the first meeting they’ve got a few interesting speakers : Stephan Janssens (parleys.com), Benjamin Dobbler (parleys.com), Nicolas Lierman (Google AIR app) and Christophe Herremans (Prana framework). Check out the details on flugr.nl and looking forward to meet you guys there !
flexpair.org online
Apr/080
Mark van Hedel has joined the blogosphere with his blog on Flex, Air, Blaze & Coldfusion. Mark is a consultant and he’s also a trainer working for prisma-it … one of the Adobe training partners. Check out his blog !
Public beta of LC Data Services 2.6 available on Labs
Apr/081
This releases has got some great improvements on performance of the messaging platform and now support Flex 3 SDK and Flex 3 Builder … You’ll notice the SDK isn’t any longer default installed at the server side … which is a good thing. Best practice should be anyway that you compile the swf on the client.
You can see a list of new features + download at Adobe Labs.
LC ES Update 1 Prerelease : Debug your processes !
Apr/080
The prerelease of the new version of the LC ES is available on the LiveCycle developer center. One of the most impressive new features is that you can now debug your processes by using record and playback. It allows you to run through a recorded process step by step, and evaluate process variabeles for each step … Huge improvement !
Adobe onAIR tour coming to Brussels
Mar/080
The Adobe onAIR tour is coming to Brussels on April 7th ! It’s a great way to get your mind “upgraded” to support Adobe Flex 3 and AIR.
Looking forward to see you there !
ps : You probably already heared but MAX is coming back to Europe, this year we’ll have MAX Europe in Milan (Italy) early December.
Getting the windows user name into your Flex application
Mar/084
Got this question last week and found out you can get the windows user information into your Flex application. I’m not sure why you would wanna do this 
But just for anyone trying to figure this out … here is how to do it.
Through javascript you can get the user Id (This only works through Internet Explore !), so by using ExternalInterface in Flex you can call the javascript function that will get you the user id.
So first you wanna add the javascript to your index.template.html (in html-template folder of your flex builder project). Add the script to the script tag just below the body tag.
var wshShell = new ActiveXObject(”WScript.Shell”);
function getUserName()
{
return wshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(”%USERNAME%”);
}
Then you can add to your MXML application this code to get the user id …
try {
var name:String = ExternalInterface.call(’getUserName’);
Alert.show(”name = ” + name);
} catch (error:SecurityError) {
Alert.show(”A SecurityError occurred: ” + error.message + “\n”);
} catch (error:Error) {
Alert.show(”An Error occurred: ” + error.message + “\n”);
}
} else {
Alert.show(”External interface is not available for this container.”);
}
}
So as I said … it will only work on Internet Explore. Through the wshShell object you can also get the domainname if needed.