Tomorrow night is the first meeting of the Capital Area Flex Users Group (CAPFUG). I will be giving a presentation on tips, tricks, and pitfalls to avoid with regards to printing from Flex 2. I learned a lot about printing in Flex applications with some of the recent updates to Flogr.

Jon Rowny will also be presenting on his trials and tribulations re-developing the CAPFUG site (http://www.dc-flex.org) in Flex 2 as a first time Flex developer.

The meeting will begin at 6:00PM at the AboutWeb office.

Flogr is now available for those who are running CFMX 7.0.2 Standard.  Previous versions of Flogr used event gateways to capture aggregate data for the charting components.  It was pointed out by a friend that meant those who have CFMX Standard could not use Flogr (poor planning on my part).

I have modified the installer to detect what edition of CFMX 7 is being used.  If you are using Standard edition, the installer will create a CF Scheduled Task instead of an event gateway to pull aggregate data into the DB.

You can download Flogr from http://flogr.riaforge.org, or get the latest from the Subversion repo at http://svn.riaforge.org/flogr.

I have updated Flogr to allow users to print information from the log files.  You now have the ability to print the log data grid and any individual log item.  The data grid will be printed with the same filters that exist for what is viewed on the screen.  These filters will also be outlined in the header of the first page.

To print the data grid, simply click the 'Print' button at the top of the grid.

To print an individual item, click an item in the data grid, the click the 'Print' button that appears above the item details at the bottom of the page.

You can get the latest .zip file by visiting http://flogr.riaforge.org. You can also get the latest from the Subversion repo at http://svn.riaforge.org/flogr.

I am also currently working on setting up the install so that if you have CF 7 Standard Edition, Flogr will use a CF scheduled task instead of an Event Gateway to parse the logs and store aggregate data for the charting.

I was able to get basic charting back into Flogr.  I just commited the changes to SVN (http://svn.riaforge.org/flogr) or you can go here to download the .zip file.

I know its been a while since I did any work with Flogr, but, unfortunately, that pesky little thing called life kept getting in the way.  So, here is some news.

• I have decided to host information about Flogr on RIAForge.org. RIAForge is a site dedicated to hosting projects that use Adobe Technologies.
  
• A new version of Flogr is available here.

A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend 2 Flex classes being conducted at my employer, AboutWeb.  During the class I realised that while it may have looked good, and functioned as I wanted it to, Flogr was not written very well.  (What do you expect, I was learning Flex as I wrote Flogr).  I decided that I was going to rewrite Flogr to try and  incorporate some 'best practices'.  The UI pretty much remains the same, as does the functionality, but some things have changed:

• Icons have been added to the 'Severity' column to make it easier to tell if the log file entry is an 'Error', "warning', etc...
• Filtering is now done in real time.  For example, as you type keywords into the search box, you will see the list of data getting smaller with each keystroke.

I will post news about Flogr on this site, and on the Flogr forums.

The current version available on RIAForge does not have any charting.  I am not quite pleased with the charting yet, however, I wanted to get the current version out since there are some neat new things available.

Due to some internal network issues, the Flogr demo is not currently available.  I am working an getting another demo site set up.

The other day someone pointed out a bug with the charting in Flogr. When you clicked on any of the 'slices' on the main pie chart, you would get en error. What was supposed to be happening was that clicking on the 'slice' would be the same as selecting that log file from the combo box on top of the chart. This has been corrected and is functioning as expected. The SVN repo, svn://www.boyzoid.com/logreader/logReader, has been updated, as well as the demo application, http://flogr.boyzoid.com:816

I would imagine that the final release of Flex Builder 2 will be out shortly. When it is released, I will make any necessary updates, and make a .zip file available for download.

The Flogr SVN repo, svn://www.boyzoid.com/logreader/logReader, is back up. To be honest, I am not sure how long it has been up. Joe and Doug did all of the set-up for the new server, and the last thing I heard, SVN wasn't set up yet.

Once again, Thanx Joe and Doug!!

I have updated Flogr with Flex Builder 2 Beta 3 so that it now works with Flash Player 9, and ColdFusion-Flex Connectivity (Mystic) Beat 3.

I have updated the subversion repository and will have a .zip file available soon, as will a 'project page'.

The demo site, http://flogr.boyzoid.com:816 has also been updated.

Please note that in order to view the lates version of Flogr, you must uninstall Flash Player 8.5 Beta 2 and then install Flash Player 9 Beta 3.

Questions, comments, concerns, suggestions are always welcome.

I update the SVN repository for Flogr. A bug was introduced when I added the 'Slow Page Report' where filtered results would not appear in the datagrid. This has been corrected in the demo site as well.

I have decided on a name, thanx to Critter, for the log reader. It will be named Flogr.

Along with that, I have added the slow page report. Thanx to Ray Camden for the idea and the base code.

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