has been around for a long time. It started life as a Java applet, then in CFMX7 we added a Flash grid and XML generation, and in Scorpio we plan on adding an Ajax powered DHTML grid. You'll be able to pass a query to the grid as you did previously, like this: SELECT * FROM myTable ... But where...
We've confirmed two European venues for the upcoming Scorpio usergroup tour: May 29th: London, England May 30th: Munich, Germany And later that week you'll get to see even more of Scorpio at Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh, Scotland. A meeting in Italy is planned for later in the year, but no date...
My boys and I spent this evening playing with my newest toy. The H-Racer is a real hydrogen powered car, a toy that runs on a real hydrogen fuel cell. The car is a kit, and some minor assembly is required - this is actually a really good thing as it helps with learning what the components are and...
Creative Suite 3 has been officially announced. For an interactive introduction visit the Creative License page. To learn which products are included with which editions, see the product page (click on the Compare Editions tab). And for those of you who were worried, CS3 includes an update to our...
Last week Tim and I showed off some of the Ajax functionality that we are working on for the upcoming ColdFusion Scorpio . One of the controls we demonstrated was an auto-suggest control implemented as an extension to the existing Of course, the list need not be static, it could be programmatically...
Ordering a pizza seems to be a popular example use case when building applications. Close to a decade ago, when I was first teaching the "FastTrack to ColdFusion" course, students needed help brushing up on basic HTML form functionality and how to work with the submitted results. So, I had them...
Simon and Schuster was founded back in 1924, originally as a publisher of crosswords and games, but over the years as the home of many important imprints and significant authors and publications. Simon and Schuster is now owned by CBS, and the Simon and Schuster website, SimonSays.com , is powered...
Four positions to post this week: eBay (San Jose, CA) an expert ColdFusion/J2EE developer for an internal web-based workflow application. Requirements includes at least 3 years of ColdFusion or J2EE experience, and at least 5 years of Oracle experience. Experience with Flex, Flash, Java is a plus....
I presented the opening keynote at Spring this morning. The first half of the presentation covered Flex Data Services, I demonstrated practical benefits of using Flex Data Services (now known as LiveCycle Data Services) as opposed to just client initiated AMF calls via Flash Remoting. Less than...
I was working on a report today, and needed horizontal dotted lines between columns in each row, essentially joining the columns to make it easier to read across. There is no automated way to do this in the ColdFusion Report Builder, but Mr. CF Reports (aka Dean Harmon) sent me this brilliant hack...