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March 25, 2007

Ryan Favro's Flex Pizza Builder

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...

March 24, 2007

Simon Says ColdFusion

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...

March 23, 2007

Positions In CA, NY, And IL

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....

March 21, 2007

Spring <br /> Keynote

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...

March 20, 2007

Creating Dotted Lines In ColdFusion Reports

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...

March 19, 2007

I Admit It, I'm Hooked On Vista

A week or so ago I did something foolish, I installed Vista on my primary laptop. Ok, so foolish may be a bit strong, after all, I did take precautions. Rather than upgrade my existing machine, I bought a new hard drive and installed Vista on that (so that my old configuration remained intact, just...

March 19, 2007

Help Adobe With User Research, And Get Paid

Adobe is conducting a series of site visits in the San Francisco Bay Area over the next couple of weeks, and here is your opportunity to give your feedback to our researchers. We are looking for people who are working full-time with web technologies. If this describes you, please fill out this...

March 19, 2007

Mozilla Looking For A ColdFusion Developer

I usually only post these once a week, on Friday's. But this ColdFusion opportunity at an organization we all love so dearly, well, it's too good to wait, so ... Mozilla (home of Firefox and Thunderbird) is looking for a freelance ColdFusion developer who can design, develop, and deploy a set of...

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