Using web service in Flex

I just tried out web service in Flex 3. This example is discussed in ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook. Here follows the complete source code.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” layout=”absolute” creationComplete=”fnCreationComplete()”>
<mx:Script>
            <![CDATA[
                        import mx.rpc.soap.WebService;
                        import mx.rpc.soap.LoadEvent;
                        import mx.rpc.Fault;
                        import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
                        import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
                        import mx.controls.Alert;
                        private var webService:WebService;
                        private function fnCreationComplete():void{
                                    webService = new WebService();
                                    webService.wsdl="http://www.rightactionscript.com/webservices/FlashSurvey.php?wsdl";
                                    webService.addEventListener(LoadEvent.LOAD, onWSDL);
                                    webService.getAverages.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, [...]

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GMail Drive

Now there’s a updated service Gmail Drive that will allow users of Picasa and GMail the ability to expand their storage limits, but at a cost. The storage facilities will also be extended to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Note that a change in the Gmail.com login may cause an empty filelist. Click here to download the latest version [...]

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RIA WAR:Apollo, JavaFX, Silverlight

The war of RIA tools has begun. For building any Rich Internet Application, multiple tools are present at our fingertips like Adobe Apollo, Microsoft Silverlight, Sun JavaFX and list goes on. 
Techie gives nice comparison between them. Click here to read the full article.

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SPI Labs advises avoiding iPhone feature

The Apple iPhone’s Safari web browser has a special feature that allows the user to dial any phone number displayed on a web page simply by tapping the number. SPI Labs has discovered that this feature can be exploited by attackers to perform various attacks, including: 
Redirecting phone calls placed by the user to different phone numbers [...]

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Flex Wednesday Webinars: Introduction to Adobe AIR

This webinar will be about: 

Introduction to Adobe AIR
How to build Adobe AIR applications with HTML & JS.
How to build Adobe AIR applications using Adobe Flex.
Using embedded SQLite database in Adobe AIR. 

You can attend the webinar by accessing this link:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/flexwednesdaywebinars/
Time: 4:00 pm (Bangalore)
This time maps to the other APAC regions as follows:
           8:30 pm (Sydney)
           [...]

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Database Design Mistakes

I just came across with a nice article on Database Design Mistakes by Louis Davidson, “Ten Common Database Design Mistakes”. It’s very informative and clears our basic fundas.

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/ten-common-database-design-mistakes/ 

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