Flex Designs

A new toy has been beta released by Adobe called Flash Catalyst. Being beta software its not got the full feature set but it is free to use. As I'm not a Flex developer, free software for occasional use is ideal.

I'm going to assume that it won't be free for long so I'm going to save the download in my dropbox account.

Supposedly, you simply create your design in photoshop or illustrator, then import it into flash catalyst and then it make it very simple to create your designs layers for your flex app.

Update: Here's a handy post from SitePoint about using Catalyst and Twitter
Update2: Serial codes for the beta

• Windows — 1395-1003-6369-7619-0587-6556
• Macintosh — 1395-0008-4467-2145-8771-1212

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SugarCRM and SQL Server 2008

There is currently no support for SQL Server 2008 within the sugarCRM. This is quite frustrating as I've spent the best part of a weeks free time getting this going only to see it be v.buggy and unusable.

There was a blog post that it was available for the 5.5 beta version, and even had an update in the user documentation to the affect. However, the blog posts date was after the file update date, and when attempting the instal with this SQL server was not appearing as a database option. I always thought open source, not re-inventing the wheel was supposed to be quicker!

So, my plan is now to instal and run off of MySQL, which will be a new thing for me. Hopefully should work ok otherwise I'm in danger of becoming a right miserable git. Retweet this button on every post blogger