Using Flex Builder 2 you will be able to build complete Flex applications powered by a ColdFusion backend. And you can build them even without using Flex Enterprise Services (FES for short). But having said that, your application may indeed benefit from FES. We'll be exposing additional FES...
An important benefit of the new and improved Flash Remoting adapter (installed with the Flex updater for ColdFusion MX 7.01, and used in conjunction with Flex 2) is the automatic conversion of objects between ColdFusion and Flex - CFCs mapped to ActionScript classes, and vice-versa. For example,...
I have posted a sample ColdFusion powered Flex 2 application to Adobe Labs. The Phone Selector application is a very simple example of a ColdFusion powered Flex application. This sample application is deliberately small and highly focused so as to demonstrate ColdFusion Flex integration options....
The beta versions of Flex 2 (including Flex Builder 2 and Flex Enterprise Services 2), and "Mystic" (the ColdFusion update which provides sophisticated Flex 2 integration is available for download from the Adobe Labs site.
Andrea Veggiani, creator of CFXML_Blog, has started again and built a brand new ColdFusion based blogging app. What follows is his own description: The official site is: http://www.avblog.org and the main features are: Both XML files or DB can be used for storage XML-RPC support for compatibility...
The Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group has been added to my upcoming tour, and I am now scheduled to be in Minneapolis on March 2nd. If you are in the area, be sure to drop by. Other venues will be added. And there will be some changes, too (I have a scheduling conflict the week of March 6th, and...
Software Development Magazine's Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. And this year ColdFusion MX 7 has been...
Joe Danziger has launched a new blog dedicated to AJAX use with ColdFusion . Joe is the author of a recent CFDJ article on building a ColdFusion + AJAX shopping cart . Welcome Joe, we look forward to your postings.
I'll be presenting at a seminar on ColdFusion and Flex in NYC next week. The following is a copy and paste from the flyer. (If you want the flyer e-mailed to you, let me know). Empower your team to build and deploy RIA with unprecedented productivity! From the ability to render printable versions...
The ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit has won Best Book in the 2005 MX Developer’s Journal / ColdFusion Developer’s Journal Readers Choice Awards , with Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development winning 2nd runner-up. And in addition, my Tip-of-the-Day (which has...