According to several sources, during Flash on the Beach, Adobe announced that it is "actively developing" a port of the Flash runtime to work on the iPhone. It would be in Apple's best interest to help Adobe along with this process.

No dates or feature/compatibility information is available right now, but I certainly hope that Adobe takes into consideration that the Flash 9/10 support (as opposed to Flash "lite") would open the doors of iphone development to Flex developers.

Bringing Flash to the iphone will not only address a huge customer demand, but it might also put Apple in a better place to deal with Google android as it begins to grow and take on its own market strategy.

Sources quoted: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007842.html
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flash_for_the_iphone_confirmed_at_fotb/
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/business-presentation/adobe-flash-on-iphoneipod-touch-another-advancement-for-mobile-business/

I have been working hard on a new project, to be released as open source called "TaskCFC." This is a group task management system that uses ColdFusion on the back end and Flex on the front end. I am writing this since it seems there are no real easy to use/easy to customize group task mgt systems out there. Ultimately this *WILL* be integrated with FusionDox, and may be integrated with Google apps and Google App Engine.

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Here is one of several apps I have written recently that i've been meaning to put on the blog. This app shows how Flex can bridge data from multiple sources. Perform a keyword search, maybe search for an iphone, and this app will search craigslist, and show you the results displayed on a map of the city.

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In my CF United 2008 presentation on Charting with Flex and ColdFusion, I demonstrated a nifty actionscript function to dynamically create a remoteObject without needing to use services-config.xml. (The code is nearly identical to code written by Mike Nimer, but lovingly frosted with glucose... rr tweaked for my needs) I also mentioned that using this, it would be possible to have an external settings file read at runtime that defined your remote object endpoint, without needing to use an annoying services-config.xml file and allowing run-time configuration of your remote data services.

Why would you want to do that? (you might ask...) Well, the short answer is that you can re-configure the server that your app talks to without re-compiling your flex app, which is really important if you do any type of QA testing.

So this post is all about how to do that thing i just described.

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Here are the presentation files and sample flex apps from my presentation on "Charting with CF and Flex" on Friday June 20, 2008.

RIA328_Charting_with_CF_and_Flex.zip (5.5M)