Just saw that Boxx, maker of some serious workstations are having a competition to win a chopper made by Orange countie choppers. Its a pertty cool bike and me being into choppers will be entering. Check the details here:
http://www.cgchannel.com/news/viewfeature.jsp?newsid=4279
And when August 2 rocks around I can see the Boxx website getting pretty slow.
On another note two new programs I would just like to point out are pretty cool.
1). As a flash developer you means of debugging are pretty limited, although this promises to get better once Zorn enters the arena till then things are pretty hard. I found an application that can watch all web requests from your omputer and can be pretty handy for debugging web-services and the likes quickly and easily. Check out Fiddler
2). A great new idea for flash an d flex developers which I am sure will be a great hit. http://www.ifbin.com. Its a repository of example applications and projects in flash. Definately worth checking out and if you have any examples you could donate please do. Looking a bit closer I think it will cost money after the beta period is up 
I have everything up and running now. Have updated the homepage start screen to aggregate the rss feed off this blog. All I can say is thank the big man/woman upstairs for standards. When writing my custom moBlog (blogging from flash on my phone) I thought it would be a good idea to see the rss2 format. Well that paid off with this migration to wordpress. So from now on I will attempt to think ahead. Have been pulling my hair out today as I try to figure out a way to send complex data types through flash's web service class to dot net. Basically I have found that anything other than arrays and string just don't make it through into the xml Soap call. Which makes it interesting when that is the default way .Net handles it. Enough to make me want to go build Hot Rods for a job 
. So if anyone has been through this please let me know your findings. PLEEEEEEEEEEASE
Well I have been trying to get flash to work with our SOAP API that we already had running. The webservices are writen in C# and use alot of the feature built in in Visual Studio. The first problem I had wad the after the initial call to the server to logon you recieved a ticket. The ticket is a 128 character string which identifies the session and is totally unique. This Ticket had to be present in the header of all soap calls for them to process.
After hunting round I found that the LoadVars and XML classes had addRequestHeader() but not the webserivice class. GRrrrrrrr but then I stumbled on an unsupported feature of Flash Kindly supplied by Jonothan from Macromedia Support:
READ HERE
Just thought Id add another google reference to point people to it.
Well after trying so had to get some time to work more on my moblog, I decided I had better put a decent Blog up in the meantime to tell you all of my adventure in the wonderful world. I'm off to the cock and bull soon to have dinner and beers with the boys so I hope to get a few photos to share. I went for the clean look skin and will probably quickly modify it a little just to suit my tastes. Check back soon!! 
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