When i started with flex development back in 2003 or 2004 with the release of Flex 1.5 i was around 12 years old , naive to the business world and how a client/consultant relationship worked. I had a few solid examples of my flex 1.5 work running on my server , and so one day a man named Barclay Layman saying he is from a company called Interspot approached me and said he wanted me to do some development on there interspotsms service made in flex 1.5. Being 12 , i jumped on the opportunity without asking for a initial deposit and did all the work he told me to do. He promised me 1000$ for it and that seemed like a lot to a 12 year old (it still seems like a lot!). I finished his entire sms application to his requirements and he told me to upload it on his flex server and hell send me the pay pal transfer. The next day I waited for his email, nothing, then waited a week for his email nothing. Called him and he didnt reply. Emailed him and he didn't reply. Soon I realized Ive just been burned. Good thing to do to a 12 year old don't you think. The moral of my story is, if your new to development always take an initial deposit.

I was developing a coldfusion/flex app today and i ran accross the most weirdest bug. The following code is pseudo code :

say if you have a remote object

<mx: remoteobjec id=something destination=ColdFusion >
<mx : method name=test result=result(event)>
<mx : arguments>
<arg1>inputtext.text</arg1>
<arg2>inputArrayCollection</arg2>
<arguments>
<method>
<remoteobjec>

This will work and send arg1 to the server but arg2 which is an array collection will be blank ,desptite the collection having over a 100 records

however if i send the same remote object like this , something.test(inputtext.text,inputArrayCollection)
it will work perfectly fine

werid ?

Lately what i have been noticing is that these captcha files have been becoming harder and harder to decode till the point that they make you feel your working for the NSA trying to decrypt something. Plus its also a pain in the ass for people like one of my friends who has partial color blindness. Looking at all these features i came up with an alternative to captcha that uses flash and javascript, all you have to do is draw the right shape and you'll be a human. The javscript is not the most secure code in the world but that can be fixed, the point here is to be able to see how a simple captcha alternative can be implemented instead of making those silly words look like a lost language.

If I get enough attention on this, i will implement an API and etc to get it to production standards

The Javascript code is there as a quick mock-up , Under no circumstances will that type of Javascript code be used in the release if there should be one.


PS I havent decided on a name so suggest one!
also it will make errors, and I will fix that if i get enough attention on this by people who want a captcha alternative.
http://g-unix.com/alter/