The Flex/Degrafa meter I created is now included on the degrafa site under samples. They have some pretty amazing samples there, so I feel honored to be included on their site.

http://www.degrafa.org/samples/

The Degrafa graphics framework for Flex is very slick. I have been using it on my flex real-time monitoring applications. Here is a configurable meter that I created using Degrafa. Feel free to use it if you find it useful.

Flex Degrafa Meter

Just got back from Adobe Max! 3 very full days of Flex and ColdFusion. They put on an excellent event.

Some of the presentations are on AdobeTV. The presentation by Deepa Subramaniam on Creating New Components in Flex 3 & Beyond was the most informative session I attended. Very in-depth and excellent presentation.

Got a new High Def camcorder for helmetcam footage (Aiptek Action HD).  SD card video cams are getting so small and light now!  I just mounted the camcorder directly to my helmet.  Didn’t even use a special helmet cam set up.  Quality is much better and set up is easier.  No more wires and batteries to contend with.

TORO Prerace Recon – Bowie, TX 10/26/08 from scott chidester on Vimeo.

MpgGenie.com was featured on the RichCommerce.fr site. I wish I could read French to find out what they said about the site!

Made some updates to MpgGenie.com. The individual vehicle flex application now shows a bar chart to compare yearly commuting costs.

Pre-Race recon for the last race of the 2007-2008 TORO motorcycle racing season.
http://www.race-toro.org/race-recon/2007-2008/706-bulcher/

Have some new updates to MpgGenie.com. You can now view an Adobe Flex application that dynamically shows commuting costs on the individual vehicle pages. Here is the page for the Toyota Prius Hybrid-Electric car.

The pricing model for the company I work for is very complex. Even the sales people have a difficult time giving customers accurate pricing. I put together a pricing configurator in Flex for the sales force and customers to easily configure their products and view accurate pricing. The application is driven off a master pricing xml file and is flexible to handle many different pricing options.

The cost of fuel is getting really bad! I am beginning to wonder if I would actually save money by trading in my old gas guzzling 1996 Explorer with the V8 for a more economical new car. If gas prices get high enough the fuel savings would be enough to make the payments on a new car. So, to make the comparison easy I created a flex app to do all the calculations for me. I thought other people might find it useful so I made a site for the application (http://www.MpgGenie.com). The database includes over 1000 2008 model vehicles with detailed fuel efficiency data to compare.