Develop One Consulting - my South African based website development company launched today.

Delivering premium websites and rich internet applications based on the latest approaches and cutting edge in technology.

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My latest Flex baby, artwork and layout by Squid Art

On Saturday (10 May 2008) a Vuvuzela kicked-off the flashmob at Menlyn Mall, Pretoria.

Everyone assembled around the food-court and froze for 5 minutes.

I must say they had a great turnout - looked to be a couple of hundred people at least.

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I have dealt with so many different webhosts in the past few years and have had dismal results, I recently started hosting with Hetzner and I must say I can’t be more impressed with their service. They are with you every step of the way from domain registrations, transfers and support. I have never needed to wait more than a day for responses to queries, I get regular calls keeping me updated about the progress of transfers and issues.

Great job guys - you make my day everyday. With all the other little things there are to be frustrated about on a daily basis at least and at last hosting is the last thing I need to worry about.

You may have noticed the qrcode (strange barcode looking cube) on the sidebar. For those of you who are not familiar with Quick Response Codes - it is a barcode made to be read easily by mobile phone cameras. It can be used for many things, a quick way for users to access a web URL from their mobile; tagging a location so users can get info on the location; and even in advertising and competitions.

Checkout MultiCode.co.za to get your site’s multicode and for more info regarding readers for your mobile. If you would like more information on how you can make use of multicodes for your competitions, events, advertising, etc complete this form.

If your Flex Builder has expired and/or you can’t afford to buy the full copy - a great free alternative is the FlashDevelop IDE

FlashDevelop allows you to quickly and easily build Adobe Flex and Adobe Air projects using the free Flex SDK (and Air SDK).

It isn’t as full featured as Adobe’s Flex specific offering - Flex Builder - whose Visual WYSIWYG design mode and component toolbar is a real clincher and makes for super-fast UI design. I would definitely suggest you buy Flex Builder if you can afford to do so but for those who can’t FlashDevelop is an excellent option.

The Gauteng Flex User Group will be hosting it’s first meeting on the 6th of May 2008 at Ting’s and Times, Hatfield, Pretoria.

For more details please have a look at flexibility.co.za

Found a really neat actionscript class for connecting Flash/Flex to a Drupal backend, the class and a tutorial on how to use it can be found here.
It allows you to connect to Drupal through Drupal services and perform service calls easily.

Check out forum.co.za - it is one of our Drupal + Flex examples

I have put up a site to facilitate South African based Flex User Groups at www.flexibility.co.za and have started GAFLUG - the Gauteng Flex User Group. I intend to hold monthly events - more details will be provided over the next few day. Please feel free to join and if you wish to start a group in your province - you will need to apply to Adobe by filling out this form or contact Ed Sullivan for more information. Once you get the go-ahead you can host your group at flexibility.co.za, if you wish.

check it out!