As of 30/04/2008, the Midnightcoders have released a new version of WebOrb for PHP (version 3.0.0). (Thanks David C. Moody for letting me know). And boy, they’ve certainly improved the performance!

In my previous post WebOrb was a factor 4 slower than it’s opponent, AMFPHP. With this new version, the difference is much smaller. I ran the ‘invoke large dataset’ test and the difference was only 40ms (It used to take 6 seconds, it now takes 270ms). So AMFPHP still holds the speed record, but WebOrb is closing in! more…

I’ve made some changes to the tree, which add some more functionality and make it even more (re-)usable.

IKTree now has:

• Caching / Recycling of children, which reduce the ‘flickering’
• Label & IconFunctions
• Object access for labelfields. You can now access objects in the tree for the labelfield. For instance, you can set ‘obj.label’ as labelField. It will then set the label as data[obj][label].
• Doubleclick support
• Added some styles (indicatorThickness & indicatorColor)

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My AS3 Regular Expression Tester (ASRET) has just been updated. With ASRET you can test if your expression behaves like you want to. It has some cool features like syntax highlighting, the ability to save your expressions, and calling the replace, math, search and exec functions of the AS3 regexp engine.

The new version brings live matching and result highlighting

With Live Matching turned on, ASRET evaluates the expression every time the expression, the string to match or one of the flags is changed. You can find ASRET here.

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Today I’m releasing the first version of my tree component. This component is a substitute for the build-in tree of flex. Why? Because the build in tree is build on the list classes, which aren’t the most stable classes of flex. My tree is build entirely with UIComponents and VBoxes, no list class used here. more…

That’s right, I was so fed up with the tree component of flex, that I decided to build my own. And to make sure that it will not end up as crappy as the default one, my goal was to make sure no listclass or whatsoever would be used.

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I just ran into another strange behavior of flex. Lets say you have a VBox, with an image inside. When the user clicks the image, it should do some stuff, but when the user clicks (mousedown actually) the VBox it should start dragging. You would expect that when you click the image, both events are fired. This is true when you don’t invoke the dragmanager. If you call the dragmanager, it cancels out all further mouseEvents, thus preventing the code of the image clickhandler to execute. more…

The other day, we were discussing remoting frameworks and the options you have on a php server. At my work, we use AMFPHP, and never really looked for other solutions. For .NET applications we use WebOrb, so I was wondering how the php version of WebOrb would perform. The results are quite shocking.
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Yeah, I finally found the time to update my theme! The previous theme lasted for a year and a bit, but never really satisfied me. This theme and template is 100% self made, coz the only way to get a site exactly the way you want is build it yourself. It’s possible that some options won’t work as expected, I’m hoping to track down all the bugs and issues in the next few weeks / months, if there are any. I also need to test it in some more browsers, I’ve only tested in Firefox 2.0.0.12 and IE6.

Please let me know if you encounter strange behavior or php errors.

Damn I hate the new flex builder. Flex Builder 2.0 wasn’t good, but the new Flex Builder is just plain rubbish! I wish adobe didn’t bought macromedia, I’m sure MM wouldn’t release such a crappy product and have the guts to call it a complete new version. FB3 doesn’t even deserve the name beta, let alone final!

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I’ve updated my regular expression tester, this version includes:

• saving your regular expressions into a shared object;
• setting the regular expression flags
• some minor bugfixes
• a bit more style added

update 15-01-2008:

Version 1.1 released:

• the save function now also saves the string to match and the replace string

update 04-03-2008

Version 1.2 released:

• New style, because the black style was giving problems with selecting text (black selection box on a black background, not good!)
• Syntax highlight! When you hover over your expression you’ll see what the different parts of your expression mean!
  • When you click (to edit) the expression, highlighting is turned off, allowing you to make selections. To turn it back on click outside of the textfield and start hovering.

You can find it at http://www.idsklijnsma.nl/regexps/

An AIR version will follow soon!