Christophe Jolif

Christophe has been working as a software engineer with various web technologies for almost 10 years and his now lead software architect for ILOG Elixir.

Latest Flex 4 (aka Gumbo) Builds and IBM ILOG Elixir

Posted by Christophe Jolif on May 14th, 2009

If you are trying to use IBM ILOG Elixir with a Flex 4 build from Adobe Open Source, you might have noticed that recent builds are breaking our components. Basically most components will get dark colors and things that. Even if…

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360Flex and other quick news

Posted by Christophe Jolif on April 16th, 2009

For those in the US who wants to learn more about Flex and also IBM ILOG Elixir, I highly recommend to attend the now famous 360Flex conference that will be held in Indianapolis from May 18 to May 20. I will…

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Reservation Gantt Chart in Flex

Posted by Christophe Jolif on February 11th, 2009

ILOG Elixir provides you with two types of Flex-based Gantt Charts:

  • the Resource Chart (in here since 1.0 release) that allows you to display one resource per-line and all the resources tasks on the same line,
  • and the Task Chart (since…

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ILOG Elixir Technical Presentation on Adobe TV

Posted by Christophe Jolif on January 30th, 2009

My MAX session about Data Visualization for Flex and AIR with ILOG Elixir has been posted on Adobe TV. It highlights some use of the ILOG Elixir components both from the 1.0 release and the soon to be released 2.0.…

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Expand/Collapse on ILOG Elixir OrgChart

Posted by Christophe Jolif on January 19th, 2009

As promised during my MAX sessions (both Europe & US), we will try to post on this blog the examples that were developed for the conference. I started with the sample showing how to display Microsoft Project in Flex, then Damien posted his Google Calendar Reader in AIR, and today I release the ILOG Elixir OrgChart expand/collapse sample.

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Styling Flex Gantt Task Chart with Degrafa

Posted by Christophe Jolif on January 13th, 2009

The nice thing with Flex UI framework is that as soon as you comply with its paradigms you can very easily integrate pieces of components coming from various origins. I’ve just tried to style ILOG Elixir TaskChart with Degrafa by replacing regular TaskChart renderers (both tasks and constraints) based on Flex/Flash APIs by custom renderers build on top of Degrafa graphics framework and it was just easy as setting two properties on the TaskChart.

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Displaying Microsoft Project Gantt schedule in a Flex or AIR application

Posted by Christophe Jolif on November 28th, 2008

ILOG Elixir 2.0 currently in beta (available here) is introducing a new custom Flex component in charge of rendering gantt task charts. The subject of this post is to see how you can read the output of an MS Project schedule and display it, using ILOG Elixir, into a Flex (or AIR) application.

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MAX in San Francisco - Day 3

Posted by Christophe Jolif on November 19th, 2008

Today was last day for MAX 2008 and Erwan gave his presentation where several customers feedback, including some from Boeing and Workday, was brought to the audience. If you did not to attend his session, you should be able to watch…

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MAX in San Francisco - Day 2

Posted by Christophe Jolif on November 18th, 2008

Keynote today focused on Adobe tool chain around the Flash platform, from design & development time to deployment time.

On the design and development sides, several CS4 products were demonstrated including Dreamweaver support of the OpenAjax Alliance metadata to include 3rd…

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MAX in San Francisco - Day 1

Posted by Christophe Jolif on November 17th, 2008

That was a busy day for me at MAX today, rehearsing/presenting my session on Flex & AIR visualization with ILOG Elixir, trying in parallel to attend some of the great sessions going on all the day and finally meeting (potential)…

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