Thunderhead Explorer

Just got back from ESRI's Developer Summit in Palm Spring, where I presented the ArcGIS Server Flex API. You can download my presentation from here . This API is intended to be released post 9.3 and will be based on the REST protocol and is very closely modeled after the JavaScript API. In the presentation, I showcased how to build a map application and how to create dynamic and tiled layers. In addition, I added graphic layers with adjustable graphics and demonstrated how to subclass a GraphicLayer to create a GeoRSS layer.

So I was happy building my project in Flex Builder , till I committed my code and CruiseControl complained that I cannot build it ! See, CC uses compc (the command line compiler) to compile the module and it was returning: unable to resolve 'assets/cross_cursor.png' for transcoding. Here is what the code looked liked. [Embed(source="assets/cross_cursor.png")] So I said to my self, "Oh come on! I thought you can handle pngs. Poop !" - Googled the error and found this link. And the solution was to add a "/" in front of "assets": [Embed(source="/assets/cross_cursor.png")] Now I'm happier :-)