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May 12, 2008

Upcoming Events In Toronto And Washington

I'll be in Toronto on Thursday for Flex Camp , and in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the opening of WebManiacs . Registration is still open for both events.

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May 11, 2008

Flex Skin Design Extensions For CS3

When Flex 3 was launched a few months back, we also launched a series of extensions that can be used from within CS3 products to create Flex skins. These extensions (for Flash, Fireworks, Illustrator, and Photoshop) allow designers to skin controls which can then be imported into a Flex 3 project....

Amazon.com Loves My SQL In 10 Minutes Book

My Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes has been a top seller on Amazon.com for a long time, consistently in the top few hundred computer books and in the top couple of thousand across all books. But I was just informed that is #3 in the Databases category on Amazon.com, and #1 in Database...

ColdFusion ISP List Update And Maintenance

I've been doing some maintenance and code cleanup on my ColdFusion ISP List , and noticed that some entries have not been updated in years. If you know of any companies that are no longer in business, or who no longer offer ColdFusion hosting, or anything else I should be aware of, please let me...

Flex Renderers Can't Rely On creationComplete

Yesterday I wasted an hour or so debugging a Flex itemRenderer that I was using to display an image instead of a value in a DataGrid column. The renderer had to simply pick one of six images based on the column value, and so it contained a single tag and a function that set the Image source...

Check Out ColdBricks, A ColdFusion Based Open Source CMS

ColdBricks is a ColdFusion based CMS and site generator, and it's free and open-source. There's a very impressive live demo online, too. This one via fellow evangelist Serge Jespers .

Preserving ColdFusion Structure Member Case In Flex

ColdFusion is case-insensitive, and Flex MXML and ActionScript are very case-sensitive. For consistency's sake, when ColdFusion variables are sent from ColdFusion to the Flash Player via Flash Remoting, names are converted to uppercase (that's the default behavior, and it can be changed if needed)....

TIOBE Responds

Paul Jansen is TIOBE's Management Director, and he responded to my post yesterday about the ColdFusion being taken off the TIOBE Programming Index . Here is his message: Hi Ben, Thanks for your reply on our TIOBE index. I have added an extra question called "Who is Richard Bremner?" to the FAQ of...

Goodbye MXNA, Hello Feeds

Adobe Feeds is up and running, replacing MXNA, and running on newer faster servers running ColdFusion 8.0.1. But more importantly, some significant code changes were made to get rid of lots of the problem code - code which was written for tens of feeds as opposed to close to two thousand. There are...

TIOBE, From Hype To Fiction

I've never taken the TIOBE Programming Community Index overly seriously. It's not really a gauge of anything overly meaningful. As TIOBE itself explains: The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The...