Flex 4 (FB) experience / opinion

Hello all...
I'm thinking of creating a rather complex RIA using Flex and a Ruby on Rails or PHP backend to a MySQL DB as opposed to an HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript approach.
So what has been your experiences with Flex - good and/or bad? Any feedback and/or lessons learned would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris

This can be done by using <mx:Reparent/> tag.

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people complaining about problems installing an office over another office are (dare i say it) stupid. it makes absolutely no sense installing one over the trial version. just uninstall the trial and you'll be fine. every single time.
as for problem with uninstalling mcafee (or any other antivirus, for that matter, just download the uninstaller from the software company e.g. http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507 for mcafee.
that said i believe you get to choose if you want mcafee and/or office when you go through the inital boot, the "on-screen instructions"
you can slow down the odd via power manager
and thanks for the tips on changing the reg to have the user profiles somewhere else!
T400s - 2815RW1 + Win7 Ultimate
Don't pm me for help! That's what the forum is for. Also, Google's nicer than me. Ask him.

Flash or Flex?

so i am traditionally a Flash designer / developer... i know, i know that strikes fear into programmers all over! you are probably thinking, i nest code everywhere and always have and there is no hope. definitely not the case.
i have always been an interface / experience first then comes the business logic second, make it all mess third. i recently move from AS2 to AS3 development and like what AS3 has to offer and after a few short months and can imagine going back to the old style code!
so to the point....
i decided i love the Flex IDE with code hinting organization and all of the "programmer" perks that come along with that environment. writing class files is a breeze and much more intuitive. everything in the product is database driven... i also love the Flex components because it appears to do some work for me with binding, resize of content, keeping assets nice and neat. i am comfortable continuing to develop in Flash if need be, but is it time to move to Flex in everyones opinion?
here is a sample of the product we have created:
http://www.mapyourshow.com/shows/index.cfm?show_id=NPE09
flash is really just a glorified library of sorts with all language content, configurations, etc are DB driven so that we can make it as flexible as possible. the bis downer is that it is written in AS2 logic and i have to do alot of clean-up for search list, the drawing of data, resizing content and relative positioning, video, panel nav, on and on! i also used tween classes, so i don't even use the timeline anymore. i think that Flex might fit in well here.
my BIGGEST concerns:
- Flex seems "heavy and clunky", so performance wise it just doesn't seem as fluid and Flash displays do.
- most flex app look the same even those built with flex 3, i cannot find and good sample that have a great presentation to them
any suggestions for good samples of Flex and Design (as in a unique presentation and nice interface)? should i move on to develop this application in Flex?
thanks,
aj

I can recommend you to visit Juan Sanchez web site I believe it's
scalenine.com you can find great customization there. Also defgrafa
allows you to do great stuff visually.
Sincerely,
Michael
El 21/04/2009, a las 14:56, ajsimo35 <[email protected]> escribió:
>
so i am traditionally a Flash designer / developer... i know, i know
that strikes fear into programmers all over! you are probably
thinking, i nest code everywhere and always have and there is no
hope. definitely not the case.
>
i have always been an interface / experience first then comes the
business logic second, make it all mess third. i recently move from
AS2 to AS3 development and like what AS3 has to offer and after a
few short months and can imagine going back to the old style code!
>
so to the point....
i decided i love the Flex IDE with code hinting organization and all
of the "programmer" perks that come along with that environment.
writing class files is a breeze and much more intuitive. everything
in the product is database driven... i also love the Flex components
because it appears to do some work for me with binding, resize of
content, keeping assets nice and neat. i am comfortable continuing
to develop in Flash if need be, but is it time to move to Flex in
everyones opinion?
>
here is a sample of the product we have created:
http://www.mapyourshow.com/shows/index.cfm?show_id=NPE09
>
flash is really just a glorified library of sorts with all language
content, configurations, etc are DB driven so that we can make it as
flexible as possible. the bis downer is that it is written in AS2
logic and i have to do alot of clean-up for search list, the drawing
of data, resizing content and relative positioning, video, panel
nav, on and on! i also used tween classes, so i don't even use the
timeline anymore. i think that Flex might fit in well here.
>
my BIGGEST concerns:
- Flex seems "heavy and clunky", so performance wise it just
doesn't seem as fluid and Flash displays do.
- most flex app look the same even those built with flex 3, i
cannot find and good sample that have a great presentation to them
>
any suggestions for good samples of Flex and Design (as in a unique
presentation and nice interface)? should i move on to develop this
application in Flex?
>
thanks,
aj
>

Flex 4 not completeMy

Maybe I was hoping for to much but. When you work with Flash, you have all the tools to create, design, and code. But Flex 4 seem to leave out the designers. That is there is no Style designer, no Skin designer, the datagrid PHP generator does not add editing for datagrids. And iPhone and iPad is required. Or is Apple right and we should all use HTML5? NO, Flash and Flex in my opinion is the new browser and should run every were. STILL NEEDS WORK

Hi,
AddChild is deprecated in Flex 4. Instead use includeIn, that'll be an attribute of <s:Label> with value, "state_name".
Example:
<mx:states>
<s:State name="expaneded"/>
</mx:states>
<mx:VBox>
     <s:Label id="lbl_searchfield" paddingLeft="30" text="Search Field" color="white" includeIn="expaneded"/>
     <s:Label id="lbl_searchvalue" paddingLeft="180" text="Search Value" color="white" includeIn="expaneded"/>
      <s:Label id="lbl_searchflltext" paddingLeft="270" text="Search FullText" color="white" includeIn="expaneded"/>
</mx:VBox>
Check this out:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax

New user of flex.

Hi,
I am a new user of Flex and i am evaluating. it.
I need to develop an interactive website. Most of the data is
static. How shd i go about doing this?.
Do i need flex Builder 2 or Flex SDK will suffice.
Will i need coldfusion??.
Pls help me.

hi there, flex i think is better suited to applications
rather than entire websites. im sure others might disagree. I Love
flex for things like a photo viewer, faculty browser app, video
player, store, admin interface etc... things that you can launch
from a web site. dont build the whole website in flex is my opinion
though, pick apps that can take advantage of its interactivity.
especially if you are a new developer would be best to isolate your
apps into smaller projects as flex may take some time to learn
without a class.
Flex Builder is crucial imo to developing Flex apps. SDK will
allow you to compile code you write into a runnable SWF Movie but
the Builder is a code editor and also helps to organize your source
files. The main thing it does is provide you with much needed code
hints about components you use and tags. Without it you have to
kind of memorize or use other references which is a pain.
Good Luck!

Should we upgrade to Snow leopard?

Basically, I'd suggest: don't upgrade --- but I would love to hear from those who have found any real or substantial benefits from doing so (the extreme number of messages re problems and disadvantages are already overwhelming and cover that side thoroughly)
My experience:
I should have remembered: if it ain't broke, don't fix it (and all I was even hoping for or expecting was for my (fairly new) Mac to operate about the same with maybe a minor 64 bit speed increase).
I have encountered numerous problems and disadvantages related to SL (Snow Leopard) (though my actual several-hour upgrade/installation worked flawlessly), and what is worse, even after getting some of the problems sorted out (and some not yet) and using SL for about a week, I very much regret 'upgrading' to SL (and will be working on restoring (non-snow) Leopard tonight/tomorrow).
I have looked at every upgraded and new aspect of SL, trying to find a reason to keep it, and there is nothing of any significance to me (and, I expect, to most people) that was not already in (non-snow) Leopard in one way or another - and some advertised things like new Safari features were already available with (non-snow) Leopard as automatic/free updates (and Safari 4 works perfectly for me there). It's nice to look at the advertising and try and justify the upgrade, but do those things (some about the most minor differences - 'refined, not reinvented' as they say), make any real difference in the hours we spend using our computers each day? I couldn't find any that truly saved me time, effort or let me do more, and I looked hard.
Now the down side...
I have a fairly new iMac (well less than a year old) with a dual core processor and 3GB RAM (and it is what I consider a very basic, typical, 'safe' setup, using the most popular brand name hardware/software, no games and very little software in general - i.e. my computer is not loaded with all sorts of 'stuff', or any uncommon 'stuff'). With SL, the OS related software (e.g. Safari) now runs in 64 bit (confirmed), but I have found no perceptible speed increase in anything from the basic to the graphic intensive - in fact, I have found quite the opposite - very significant lags, commonly in saving files, opening dialogs and certain operations (sometimes consistently, sometimes intermittently) in many software programs (including Apple OS related programs, other Apple software, and 3rd party software such as Adobe CS4) - even simply saving an image in Safari now takes a painfully long time to simply display the dialog. The 'beach ball' has become a very common sight (where it wasn't in non-snow Leopard), and a great many of the other lags and slowness occurs without the beach-ball appearing at all (which is disturbing for a number of reasons). That, combined with (for me) the system crashing, the system simply hanging when left on overnight (set to never sleep/etc), printer driver problems, UPS status problems, screen zoom problems, various program crashes, and the Finder not working properly (doesn't crash but doesn't find consistently/reliably), all means that the SL 'upgrade' is 0% benefit and 100% detrimental for me. Even without any of the specific (to me perhaps) problems/bugs above, the lags and sluggishness alone has turned a beautiful Mac into something frustrating to use (especially since I'm very used to and LOVED how consistently responsive it was with non-snow Leopard).
With (non-snow) Leopard, my Mac was basically perfect, reliable, fast, everything ran right and flawlessly, etc - all the stuff Apple talks about in their commercials. With SL, Apple has severely disappointed, and added 0 significant advantages/features and made my Mac slow, sluggish, unreliable, unstable and problematic - just like the PC they compare to in their commercials. I have also been waiting/checking for a 'software update' re the countless problems I and others have found in SL - nothing has come, or seems to be forthcoming (perhaps I have missed some acknowledgement of the problems or pending fixes by Apple). I simply hope I will be successful in restoring my Mac (through time machine) to it's pre-snow condition.
Note: If you do try SL, I'd suggest you do a full image backup beforehand (which the OS install does not suggest/warn you to do, or do itself).
If anyone has experienced any advantages with SL (other than the few esoteric 'new features' already covered in the advertising) that outweigh the disadvantages/problems and that would affect most users in a REAL/substantial way on a daily basis, please reply. If you have an experience/opinion similar (in general) to mine, a short reply would also be appreciated.
I hope Apple is taking notice of these discussions, and remembers and returns to their previous quality/standards - sorry, but we already have PC filling the other type of market, and Apple is about something different (isn't it, still, I hope!) --- and, not to be (too) funny, but is it possible SL was really written/released by Microsoft as a sneaky way to level the competition with Apple (reference the latest Apple commercial with 'PC guy' impersonating 'Apple guy')? Forgive this last paragraph - now getting off the soap box

Hi JasonFear...
Thanks for the info... and to clarify, mine was an upgrade (rather than an erase/clean-install - as per recommendations from Apple and the discussion board, regardless of extra work involved) - I have not tried an erase/clean-install.
One reason for my (very long) post was to cover my real daily use experience re SL (aside from problems/crashes that may be specific to me or certain software) - on things like Safari, page loads are as fast (perhaps imperceptibly faster) than in non-snow Leopard; however, it is during some user interactions, things like opening dialogs (e.g. save image as one example in Safari, other dialogs, menu/button selections, saves, etc in other software) that there are lags and sluggishness - it is not that my Mac now runs slow overall (it doesn't), it is that crisp responsive interactive aspect that has greatly and very noticeably degraded (and even so, not universally or always consistently). I too have a great deal of experience in doing upgrades/etc to large numbers of systems, but not involving Macs - one thing I've have found over the years is that users will rarely ever mention things like a dialog now taking 3 seconds to appear where before it appeared instantly - if it appears at all, they often just leave it at that. Also, these type of things (lags) were not immediately noticed by me right after the upgrade, or I just wrote them off as a one-time or circumstantial thing, but they persisted and became very noticeable and appeared in more places as I got back into using the computer extensively all day as I have always done.
I thought of SL as more of an internal upgrade to allow for the future (and was aware it may have limited immediate advantage) - that is also why I put it on rather than waiting (as I would have if it were an 11.0 rather than a 10.6) - I think the reality is that it will still be quite some time before it becomes a real requirement (for future compatibility). The fact that this 'update' is charged-for (though very inexpensive) feels more like a marketing/psychological thing so there is something 'new' to release, to keep up with the other guys, and not leave the Apple users feeling like they don't have something 'new'/current.
Thanks for replying with your experience and suggestion of an erase/clean-install (though so far it still seems to be a lot of pain for no practical gain, other than being ready for the future way in advance of necessity).
Though I am encouraged to see several replies reporting no problems, I am still looking forward to some replies with real-life experiences related to real advantages for daily use of most users.

Help - upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard AND new larger hard drive, MBP

Howdy!
My iPhone has finally demanded that I upgrade my MBP from Tiger. And as if by coincidence, my now puny 100GB internal drive is packed full with less than a gig free most of the time. (10% free is the MINIMUM free allowance, I know!!) I run old copies of Adobe CS2, Quark, Quickbooks, Microsoft Office... would love to keep them working without purchasing upgrades, but probably isn't a realistic hope. None of it is mission critical at this point.
So I've purchased the $29 Snow Leopard DVD (from a reseller - it says CPU Drop-In DVD Version 10.6 on the disk), and a new 750GB internal drive (same reseller - The drive is a 2.5" SATA 5400RPM 8MB-Buffer Hard Drive (9MM Slim) (RoHS Green Friendly)), to get with the times.
My other resources include:
- two 1TB LaCie external drives with FW and USB2 ports
- one other LaCie external drive - I think 360GB?
- Retrospect 5.0 (most of my backups are encrypted Retrospect files on those three LaCie external drives, but there's some room on them)
- a $22 USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE adapter with AC power, to access whatever laptop drive might be without an enclosure temporarily
- a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner software
- I just ordered an upgrade to my ancient (OS9) copy of DiskWarrior
- A monster UPS battery backup and line conditioner that everything plugs into for this process
It has been a long time since I've DIY'd any undertaking this complex, and I'm looking for advice on what to do first, how to go about this.
Here's my setup:
Model Name: MacBook Pro 15"
Model Identifier: MacBookPro1,1
Processor Name: Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 2 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP11.0055.B08
SMC Version: 1.2f10
I'm guessing I should do it like this, PLEASE EDIT or make suggestions or tell me what I forgot to do before I do it!!
1. Back up everything to at least two external locations! Also, make a bootable copy of my current internal drive in its own volume, to at least one external drive that is formatted in HFS+ GUID partition style, with Carbon Copy Cloner (would Retrospect work well for this instead?).
2. Free up at least 20GB on the current internal drive (100GB). Hopefully 30GB.
3. Run Disk Utility on the current internal drive. Fix any problems. (Should I hit it with DiskWarrior instead?)
4. Format the new 750GB drive to HFS+, GUID partitions. (How long will that take? Can I do it with the USB-SATA cable adapter, sitting on my desk, or does it have to be in an enclosure? The adapter has AC power)
5. Run Disk Utility (or DiskWarrior?) on the new internal drive in its temporarily external position. Fix any problems.
6. Boot off the Snow Leopard CPU Drop-In DVD and install onto both drives. (Will this version of the DVD I have wipe all files when it installs to a disk???)
7. See how they run. Boot off the old 100GB internal drive, boot off the new to-be-internal 750GB drive. Panic if it's not going well.
8. If the current internal 100GB drive is rocking Snow Leopard and my familiar files and apps seem somewhat functional, use Carbon Copy Cloner to recreate the volume on the new larger drive. Then swap the drives physically. (Links to good step-by-step instructions on this part would be much appreciated here!!)
9. If the Snow Leopard DVD overwrote or snuffed out my familiar files and apps on the old internal drive, sigh deeply, then swap the drives physically. Use CCC (or Retrospect? or Migration Assistant?) to fetch my junk from the old internal drive's backup and plunk it on the new bigger internal drive (now installed).
10. See how it runs. Shake my fist at the sky over the planned obsolescence of technology paired with the seductive power of my iPhone. Grumpily upgrade the software that I actually create income with.
Please help! I am just faking it here based on a few message boards I've read. Will this actually work properly?
Thanks!

Howdy slowpoke43, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Please help! I am just faking it here based on a few message boards I've read. Will this actually work properly?
LOL, if your faking it you're the best!
1. Yes, absolutely... no CCC would be best in my experience/opinion.
2. Yes, the more he better... Free Space is no longer our Free Space, but OSX's.
3. Indeed, & if you have the correct version of DW, do that.
4. Yes, not long, A/C power is great.
How to format your disks...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
(To Install OSX on an IntelMac the Drive it needs the GUID Partitioning scheme mentioned at the bottom.)
Thanks to Pondini, Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks...
http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html
6. Yes, boot off the 10.6 DVD, & no Snow Leopard does by default what we used to call an Archive & Install, saves & updates all your info, APPs, Music, etc., it may quarantine a few things or not but will tell you.
7. Absolutely, but Panic won't be needed with your great preparation & Bootable Backups!
8. Not quite sure I understand, but run SL for a few days before you do anything.
9. Yeah, but again with you doing everything right from the gitgo, I can't picture that happening.
10. Yes indeed, the hangup with yours is that it only holds 2GB of RAM... a pain in 10.5 & up IME.
Again let me say... GONGRATS, I've never ever seen anybody so well prepared & informed despite your diffidence!

Cash sales in DBM with a cash account

Dear Experts,
My client requires that in case of cash sales in DBM, the amount gets posted to a cash account instead of customer account. This process is akin to "Cash Sales" in SAP "Sales and Distribution". It is managed in SD with the billing type BV and by setting up cash account determination.
In order to achieve this in DBM, we have done following in customizing.
Copy a new order type from 1000 - Parts order and assign bill type BV instead of F2. We have maintained cash account determination in SD customizing and ensured that the required cash account is posted when a bill with type BV is treggered by DBM Billing Create event.
With this the process appears to be going well. On creating the invoice for new order type, the cash account is posted instead of customer account. And on cancellation of invoice the accounting entries are reversed. Also, the users dont have to settle the cash in 'DBM cash desk' as the amount is posted directly to cash account instead of customer account.
I request members to share their experience/opinion on following points,
1) Will there be any unforeseen impact on the other DBM functions because of this new set up ?
2) Has anyone already used such setup and what has been the experience ?
Thanks and Regards,
Dhairyasheel

HI Dhairyasheel,
This is a client specific requirement and so no such process was delivered by SAP.
The way you have handled it almost the same way I would ahve done had I been asked to do so.
To answer your first point - as long as your account postings are happening fine (both forward and reversals), then I dont think there should be any issues.
As this new, pl do keep this thread updated if possible.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Harsha

Flex3 and CF8

I am a Flex newbie, experience ColdFusion user.
I am using the trial version of Flex Builder 3 to create a
new project (File/New/Project/FlexBuilder/Flex Project).
In the New Flex Project window, I enter the project name,
select "web application" as the application type, and select
"ColdFusion" as the server technology. The "Use remote object
access service" is checked, and "LiveCycle Data Services" is
selected.
In the next screen - in the server location, I enter
"Standalone" as the installation type, the webroot is
"c:\inetpub\wwwroot," and the root url is "
http://127.0.0.1" (I'm using IIS, so
I'm not using port 8500). This is the screen where I see error at
the top - "LiveCycle Data Services is not installed at the
specified location." But I made sure LiveCycle Data Services was
installed when I installed ColdFusion8, and "Enable Remote Adobe
LiveCycle Data Management access" is checked in the ColdFusion
Administator panel.
Also, I went back in the New Project dialog and changed the
server option to "ColdFusion Flash Remoting", and I was able to
create a new project. However, now I cannot connect to my
datasources using RDS configuration - I keep getting the error
"Unable to connect to localhost".
What is missing? Any help on either of these topics would be
appreciated. If I can get this to work, it would justify the
purchase of the full version.

I assume from your post that you installed ColdFusion 8 onto
your local machine because you're using 127.0.0.1 as your root URL.
During the installation you have to select to install RDS (which
isn't checked by default) AND LiveCycle Data Services; LCDS prompts
for a serial number, but defaults to a "free" single-CPU license
after 120 days.
I had to completely uninstall Coldfusion 8, and reinstall
(twice) to make sure EVERYTHING was checked/selected for Flex 3 to
be happy. Try removing the "localhost" default entry for RDS and
creating your own with the IP address of your PC. Since you're
running IIS (locally, right?) then RDS should be looking on port
80, and I think the RDS entry for "localhost defaults to using port
8500. Once you give it your PC's IP and the password for RDS that
you create when you installed CF8, you should be able to do a
successful test to ensure that RDS is even listening. When you
selected to install to IIS (rather than install CF8's own web
services) did you also specify "All Websites"?

Flexview Feedback

Note: This was previously posted on Verizon's Fios Facebook page and I was referred to this board to provide feedback.
I tried my first "Flex Viewing" experience last night, and I am more than disappointed with the entire experience. I purchased (not rented) "Pacific Rim" HD.
At first things seemed ok as I played it on my PC, but quickly realized there were no controls for rewinding or fast forwarding. Also, while I understood that the PC viewing would be in SD, the quality was *terrible* and grainy. It looked like I was watching a bad bootleg. Contrast that to my Netflix (run on the same PC) and episodes of "Portlandia" look like an IMAX HD experience in comparison.
I decided this may have been a fluke and then attempted to view it on my iPad 2 (iOS6) - all I kept getting was "We apologize, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again in a few minutes." I did so several times to no avail. I updated the iOS and tried again - still no luck. I tried again in the morning, still the same error.
I then attempted this on my iPhone 5 (iOS7) and the same message appeared.
This morning I attempted to resolve this with a technician. After a few minutes of chatting the conclusion was "It's your devices, everything is fine on our end." I asked if a ticket could be opened and escalated and was told there was no recourse at this time. In essence, I was told that I could not use the product I had purchased as advertised.
I will give credit where it is due. The billing department reimbursed me (via credit on my next bill) for the purchase and they were very nice. However the quality of the technical service, and the "Flex Viewing" experience leaves much to be desired.
I would hope any such launches in the future will be thoroughly tested and troubleshooting procedures beyond "reinstall the app" are developed.

Public betas I can understand. But I don't know what problem you are having with the feedback system. Which feedback system?
Are you talking the one on:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
Are you talking the Safari menu's Report Bug to Apple?
Are you talking this feedback board about Discussions?
Beta in case you ever wondered is a common term in the computer programming field for lack of a better term for "Buggy Everyday Test Application." In other words Safari 4 beta is for guinea pigs who want to help Apple develop a better Safari 4.
The 3.2.1 update should work just fine as long as you have 10.4.11, 10.5.5, or 10.5.6.
If it doesn't it says you have an addon that uses the internet in such a way that it interferes with how Safari would run normally. It could be a dashboard widget, a Java application, a download software, PthHelmet, older version of Safari Enhancer, Pimp My Safari, older version of Netflix, or a router whose firmware is too old for your system. Regardless since many people have no trouble with Safari 3.2.1 update, don't assume that your problem is indicative of bad programming on Apple's part.
I see your post here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=876&start=0
you are not specific enough as to what doesn't work. Just saying something doesn't work helps no one.

Scaling in reports BPC5 Versus BPC7NW

I copied the BPC5.1 reports and using in BPC7NW.
Though all 5.1 reports are working after copying to BPC 7NW ..some reports are having issues with scaling. In 5.1 reprots the scaling is defined in reports in the 'scaling control' property in reports 'Control Panel' to show in 1000's. It was working well with BPC5.1 systems. Whe the reports are copied to BPC7NW the same scaling property is not working.
Is there any difference between 5.1 vs 7nw for the scaling control?
Please share your experience ,opinion...

The issue closed...

Best Configuration for Laptop

I just purchased, and upgraded, a laptop that has:
GTX 470 (3 GB dedicated video)
24 GB DDR3 RAM
120 GB primary internal SSD (C Drive) (up to 550MB/s read, up to 500MB/s Write)
480 GB second internal SSD (D Drive) (up to 540MB/s read, up to 460MB/s write)
i7 processor
I shoot with 3 Sony HDR CX550V's. They of course compress to H.264...
So, what is the best way to setup this laptop? Basically, I installed the OS and software on the primary drive. Then I opened up premiere and created a blank project and setup "Media" and "media cache" under project settings to store in a folder on the D drive. I assume I don't want anything on the primary drive, no cache, no renders, just keep it clean.
But the C drive is faster and I would like your professional, experience opinion as to how to best configure this. Should I render out to the C since it has faster write? Should I store cache on C in a folder that I clean out every now and then? Data files on D? etc...
This laptop has a thunderbolt port too, and 4 USB3.0, it's an Asus laptop. I have an external drive, but it's RDD, 7200 RPM's. I could get an external SSD but for the most part I don't want to use an external drive in my workflow. However, for bigger projects if there's a major advantage I may need or at least want to do that. So, suggestions for this scenario would be appreciated too, but mostly curious about the best way to deal with my internal drives. I am curious if there would be a big difference expected with an external drive(s) in the mix...

Also, please be specific, like where to put what:
Project (premiere project files)
Scratch (video/audio previews)
Source files, my H.264 files that is)
Exports (Renders)
"Media Cache Files" and "Media Cache Database" under preferences/media
And anything else specific that would be helpful to know.
Thanks!

Locale Resource Bundle Best Practice

Hi
I have a Flex application that loads it's locale resource bundle from a service.
So when the httpservice loads the bundle it populates an instance of a class "I18NBundle" that contains all the bundle properties. For instance you could do:
i18nBundle.hello_message and it would return "Hello"
I'm currently using Cairngorm for this project so this i18nBundle instance it's on the model locator.
What I'm seeing and that I don't like is that for a component be able to get the bundle it must access to the model locator and then to the i18nBundle.
Instead of that what I would like is that each component doesn't rely on this for getting the bundle.
I guess I could create a "bundle" property on each component class and then pass it the reference to the bundle when it is instanciated. It seems it could be messy and a difficult task to initialize this property in some cases for instance on a datagrid cell renderer.
Other could be transforming the I18NBundle class into a singleton and then when the service response it's recieved the singleton it's initialized. Since all application components should/must access the same locale bundle I guess this could be a better option.
What do you think about this?
Do you think there is some a better way to achieve this with Flex?
Any opinion or recommendation would be appreciatted.
(I don't wish to use the Adobe Flex proposal of having the properties file on the Flex project and the compiling them into swf.)
thanks in advance.
Polaco.
ps: If you think I haven't expressed myself correctly please let me know and I will rewrite it.

I have managed to extend IResourceBundle and added it to ResourceManager.
The only problem now is that my bundle does not represent a language and it doesn't need a name either.
Since the localization part is done on the webapplication and then the apporpiate bundle returned in the request's response.
So it's locale attribute value is "".
And it's name is "".
I can display a property correctly if I use the following code:
(resourceManager.getResourceBundle('','')).content.helloMessage
but I doesn't work if I try to retrieve it like:
resourceManager.getString("", "helloMessage");
any ideas ?
thanks

Potential Versioning Differences Between Storage Server and Grid Infrastructure/DB

Hello.
While awaiting my MOS CSI access to be approved For Exadata HW issues so I can open an SR, I have a question. We are about to apply QFSDP for BP 22 on one of our full RACK X3 Exadta servers. Currently, the Grid Infrastructure (GI)/DB SW is at 11.2.0.3.0 and teh storage SW is at 11.2.3.2. Our last BP was 19. BEFORE we apply the BP 22, we want to upgrade the clusterware to 12c - but not the DB (that will come later). This is a high level question which I have discussed with several Oracle techs, but wanted to see what the experience/opinion is while I await access to my CSI. Can you have your Grid Infrastructure (GI) running at a higher version than that of your your storage server? The tech I spoke to said that all GI/DB SW should be at a version that is NO GREATER than that of the storage server - meaning a 12c version of the GI would not be compatible with a lowere version of the storage server. Thank you in advacne for any guidance.
Regards,
Matt

Hi Matt,
Seems you want to do a lot in one go here.
Maybe you should look at Doc ID 888828.1, Doc ID 1537407.1 and Doc ID 1373255.1 for a start.
For 12c (grid and rdbms) on Exadata it is recommended to upgrade your FW to 12.1.1.1.0 first.
My advice would be to patch up 11g to BP22 and when done start planning the 12c upgrade (keeping the 11g dbhome).
Regards,
Tycho

Strategic role of XI as clearing center?

Hello,
does it make sense to use XI as clearing center? That means you need to check first all messages within XI coming from different interfaces. After that consolidation step in XI the next step is to send these messages (checked and maybe corrected) to the following business systems or informing the sending business system about erros. Maybe you can use the ABAP-Stack for the clearing tasks (e.g. retreiving information from other systems to check messages).
The alternative szenario is to have an additional Clearing Center in front of XI to do all these tasks. And the message transfer is from interface (1..N) to Clearing center to XI to (1..n Business Systems) in the system landscape.
What is your experience/opinion about that extended XI role?
Thanks
Christian

Hi Christian,
We faced the same situation and took the XI approach. Why redo things that are given out of the box in XI. There are a lot of bells and whistles given by the system for data cleansing and data massaging.
But its a scenarios based choice. as long as the cleansing steps don't involve complex business logic, we could do it in XI. You don't want to put too much of business transformation and translation login in XI.
Regards,
Naveen

Flex 4 (FB) experience / opinion

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