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Code View

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:23:00 GMT

I tried to get my code view working for my Twitter Pod but it seams there is a bug in Flex 3 that wont let me specify the code view source. Every time I change it Flexbuilder changes it back when it exports the release build. And here is the bug report at Adobe. It was already entered but I put my vote forward hopefully they fix it. bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-13194

Twitter, Flex and Coldfusion

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Well I have been playing with a new homepage and wrote a small section of code to display my twitter feeds using CFFEED. This is a great tag and I was able to in 4 lines of code read my feed and loop over it displaying it nicely. It was only a small step to port it into a flex widget which you can see on the side of my blog. I'll post up the code shortly.

CFEclipse

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:36:00 GMT

CFEclipse and its XML files.

Coldfusion Forums

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:15:00 GMT

I don't mind browsing an online forum now and then and I really liek to have a place I can go to ask questions. Mailing lists are great but often I tend to skip over alot of emails. So I did some searching and found the following Coldfusion forums....

Subeclipse in Flexbuilder

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:01:00 GMT

I wanted to intergrate SVN into Flexbuilder. As flexbuilder doesn't include all the java plugins installing SubEclipse took 1 or 2 extra steps. I found this blog post which worked for me withotu issue: http://www.flexer.info/2008/04/30/how-to-install-subclipse-on-flex-builder-3/ It's working great. Now to find a MS SQL explorer plugin so I don't need Enterprise manager open as well.

Adobe Air Camp

Sat, 17 May 2008 15:13:00 GMT

I recently attended Adobe's Air Camp ( Melbourne Australia ). There was quite a large turn out and a surprising amount of interest. I spoke with a few people and, as noted by Adobe, one of the key points is due to Adobes push for cross platform frameworks.

I'd say 70% of laptops I saw there were Macs and 100% of the Adobe staff were on Macs. I sat with a few guys who basically said if this didnt run on Linux then they wouldn't have been there that day. I think this is a good thing for Adobe. I have personally been using Flexbuilder in OSX, Windows and I played with it in Linux all with great success.

One of the nice things Adobe is doing is working hard to integrate its products and although I don't use CS3, others at work do and now they can design UI in Flash and Fireworks then pass that onto a developer to implement the logic.

The presenters and their blogs were:

Andrew Spaulding - http://www.flexdaddy.com/

Mark Blair - http://www.blairsblog.com/

Matt Voerman - http://blog.schematic.com.au/

Coldfusion XML Unformat

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:00 GMT

I found this function very usefull just recently so I though I'd share. Description This is a simple UDF which does the exact opposite of CFMX's XmlFormat() function. Specifically, it replaces the following five characters in XML-escaped data with their normal equivalents: > with > < with < ' with ' " with " & with & http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=800 "This is a simple UDF which does the exact opposite of CFMX's XmlFormat() function. Specifically, it replaces the following five characters in XML-escaped data with their normal equivalents: > with > < with < ' with ' " with " & with &" http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=800

Macbook and Wifi

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:15:00 GMT

Well after wiping Leopard and rolling back to Tiger I was really disappointed as I had the same wifi dropping issue. This time I knew it wasn't specific to Leopard so I began to investigate options to fix this permanently. After much trial and error I came across this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1017323&start=50&tstart=0 which while I had to cross my fingers and hope for the best on reboot worked! So now I have my environment set back up and a reliable wifi connection. I guess I will try Leopard again when 10.5.3 is released. BTW this is not affecting everyone but it seams it's specific to the router/access point you are using as Apple Airport AP's seam to have no issue.

Coldfusion on OSX ( again )

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:56:00 GMT

Well the CF 8 install on leopard was working well the constant wifi drop outs I was experiencing were just not worth the price on the "newest and shiniest" OS. So today I wiped the old partition and reinstalled OSX 10.4. Ill follow the same steps as before on hopefully have my setup running again soon.

Coldfusion and Flex a perfect harmony.

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:09:00 GMT

A new site has been launched to give examples and short tutorials on how Coldfusion and Flex communicate. Anyone can submit a tutorial and request specific examples. www.flexcf.com is the sister site to www.learncf.com

Flex config

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:21:00 GMT

Flex configuration

Blue Dragon is Open source

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:27:00 GMT

So by now we have all heard that BlueDragon is open source. What do I think about this? I think it’s good news, personally I will probably never look under the hood but if I needed to I can. I have never used Blue Dragon as I have always had access to dedicated CF box's but now that it’s free I might pull and old server out of the cupboard and give it a go.

The thing that appeals to me is the free edition. Any cheap hosting plan out there has php almost none have Cold Fusion and I don’t think I have ever seen it for free. Now with a free cmfl engine I'd like to see more hosts offering this as part of their service. If this happens we might start seeing some more community projects ie phpbb like forums and wordpress blogs for cmfl becoming more popular. I currently use phpbb however I do little to no code customisation and that’s really because it’s already so good, but every now and then there are parts that we’d like to change and I would be more comfortable working with cfml.

I don’t see php/.Net devs throwing away what they know for cmfl but with a free edition out there I hope to see an increase in its use. I also don’t see any big projects move from ColdFusion to Blue Dragon but there might be some that have a application that don’t need the extras and its now easier to sell a project that doesn’t have a server side technology that they have to fork out even more for.

New Atlanta

Adobe CEO: We're bringing Flash to the iPhone

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:47:00 GMT

Well finally there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Flash for the iPhone. I am very happy about this and hope iPhone Flash will have excellent support for Flex. I'm already thinking of the possibilities and hitting up the boss for one as soon as they are out in Aus. Which I hope coincides with the Flash release.

Excellent News!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8263

New Flex User Group Special Presentation

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:08:00 GMT

For those in Melbourne Australia the Melbourne Flex user group is having a special presentation evening:

Presentation one:

Join Matt Johnston (OzFlex) at a joint OzFlex / AUG Vic event as he presents and demos Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 - as announced by Adobe on February 25th. You'll see exclusive video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive giveaways.

Presentation two:

What you didn't know about video in the real world. Find all the details here: ozflex.urbanwise.com/

Drinks and dinner will provided courtesy of Adobe.

Help Adobe plan the future of Flex or ColdFusion.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:02:00 GMT

Adobe is asking users of Flex or ColdFusion to take the following survey.

Adobe wants to learn from a wide range of developers how they use the

products today and what they would like to see in the future.

Click here for Survey

I would like to see a free edition of Coldfusion similar to Microsoft's Express editions of SQL Server and Visual studio. At the very least it would give EDU an extra option without having to jump through hoops to get Coldfusion up and running.

CF 8 on Macbook

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:46:00 GMT

The older my home desktop PC gets the less I seem to be using it. I am finding myself using my Macbook more and more to a point where my screen is no longer plugged into the desktop and just waiting to plug into the external display of the Mac. So what does this mean for my laptop? Well for one thing I need Coldfusion running locally on the Mac to continue my work at home.

After recently upgrading to Leopard I noticed a few posts and stories that CF8 won't "just work" under Leopard. Without bothering to do any research I installed CF hoping to use the internal webserver. This plan basically failed to render the first time I tried some simple cfm's. Back to the drawing board ( google ) where I found this great post: http://renaun.com/blog/2007/08/07/230/ I followed the simple steps which bypassed my next hurdle, installing MySQL. Needless to say this worked like a dream and I had my code up and running and communicating wth Flex in no time. So big thanks to Renaun.

As a comparison I did some massive imports from XML to MySQL on the Macbook ( 1.8 Dual Core ) compared to my work machine Vista ( Core 2 Duo 2.2 ) with little or no difference in speed. Which is great considering the Vista machine was connected to a DB ( MsSQL ) server on the LAN.

The move to Eclipse.

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:59:00 GMT

The move to Eclipse