June 28th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4, Tips&Tricks, Web services
Google Maps API offer a lot of possibilities, especially with the new Javascript V3 API. Part of this are the so called services: geocoding, directions, elevation and places.
Elevation service allows you to get the elevation of a place given the coordinates or the place address. To use it within your google maps code, you just [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
If you have already experienced Flash Builder 4 beta 2, you have probably noticed the new Data/Services feature on wich Adobe has put a lot of efforts. Using its wizard it is straightforward how to connect to a database, but there is someting more, at least something I just discovered recently: the data management.
In brief, [...]
January 21st, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
In this previous tutorial I simply showed how to create a service in Flex and how to use it to create something in the database. Now we’ll use the service to get al the items in the database and to populate a DataGrid.
So, let’s open the project and create a DataGrid:
not difficult hu? Okay and [...]
January 20th, 2010 | by teocomi | published in Flex 4
PART I – Creation of the database, connection to the database, creation of items in the database
In this tutorial I will create a simple application to show you how to connect to a database in Flex 4 using the Data/Services functionality and PHP. FinallyI will also show you how to export data into an xls [...]