November 26, 2006
I just arrived in Toronto, and will be presenting here twice tomorrow: ColdFusion Powered Flex Seminar : Morning seminar at the Metro Convention Centre in downtown Toronto. Registration is required. Toronto ColdFusion User Group Presentation : A look at ColdFusion+Flex, and some Scorpio sneaks. If...
November 25, 2006
I bought the Samsung BlackJack that I mentioned the other day . I've been using it on and off throughout the weekend, and so here are my initial thoughts: Pros: The form factor is incredible. The device is about the same height and width as the Treo, but it is considerably thinner and much lighter....
November 22, 2006
In addition to the existing ColdFusion and Flex portals, a new LiveCycle portal is now online.
November 22, 2006
I know, I've found my "next phone" many times over the past few years, only to be disappointed each time. But I am not giving up, and now the device that has caught my attention is the new Samsung BlackJack . This device has a pretty sleek form factor, it's narrower than the Treo, the Nokia E61/62,...
November 21, 2006
One of the things I like most about ColdFusion's tag is the SELECTED attribute, give it a value and it figures out which one to pre-select. The Flex ComboBox allows you to set selectedIndex (the relative element position) but not selectedValue. Actually, ComboBox does have a selectedValue property,...
November 21, 2006
Lots of us have needed a Flex ComboBox populated with U.S. States, and there are examples of that out there. But what I needed for an app I am working on is something a little different, a ComboBox that could display U.S. States or Canadian Provinces (but not at the same time, obviously). One...
November 20, 2006
I am working on a project that needs to do LDAP lookups, and lots of them. Some of my searches are for a single name, others are for multiple, and some allow partial matches (begin with passed string) while others don't. A simple LDAP test for equality filter might look like this: uid=jsmith....
November 19, 2006
Temporary tables have long been an integral part of any complex SQL processing. If you have a long script or stored procedure, one which needs to extract or manipulate data using multiple queries and related statements, then being able to save results into temporary tables can dramatically improve...
November 17, 2006
The ColdFusion team released three hot fixes recently: System Error and System Out log file rotation JRun generates Java stderr and stdout logs as [server name]-err and [server name]-out when running as a Windows service, however, the files do not rotate. Using named parameters with stored...
November 16, 2006
Ok, so I am not sure where I could use this personally, but wow, SpringGraph is as impressive a Flex 2 component as I have seen yet. Try the demos!