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,...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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!
Kuler is a new online application that you can use to explore and experiment with colors and color themes. Honestly, I am not a designer (duh!), so while the UI is cool I doubt it's an app I'll use much myself. What is really cool, at least for me, is that the backend for this app is ColdFusion...
CFUnited (formerly CFUN) has become the premier ColdFusion specific event. I've attended for the past 5 years (with the exception of 2003), and plan on attending this year too. And as in previous years, I expect that the bulk of the CF team will be in attendance as well. If you are serious about...
Ted Patrick built FlexSearch , a simple search app to locate Flex content from dozens of sources (he has over 50,000 articles indexed). Ted posted details on his blog, and also noted that this is his first real ColdFusion application. Well done Ted, and welcome to the wonderful world of ColdFusion...