I am in Rome for the day, en route to London. ActionScript.it (the local Adobe usergroup) is hosting a full day seminar, and I am presenting ColdFusion/Flex integration as well as some Scorpio sneaks. Other presenters include Charlie Arehart and Vince Bonfanti (of New Atlanta).
Mark Kruger posted comments about the performance of (see post 1 and post 2 ). He noted that returning full directory information with all file details (especially over network connections) can be painfully slow. As per his post, using Java APIs to return directory lists is far quicker, which is...
A few months back I presented Flex + ColdFusion seminars in cities around the U.S and online. And now we've added Toronto, Ontario, to the list. Join me for a half day seminar to learn why there's simply no quicker or easier way to create Rich Internet Applications than the combination of Flex 2...
The ColdFusion Portlet Toolkit is a proof-of-concept library that allows you to use ColdFusion as a Portal Application within an IBM WebSphere Portal Server (WSPS version 5 and greater). Using the toolkit you can quickly and easily create portlets using ColdFusion. The toolkit is now on labs .
Italian Adobe user group actionscript.it is hosting a full day seminar in Rome on November 6th. As I am going to be in the area I'm planning to drop by to speak on ColdFusion Powered Flex, and to show some Scorpio sneaks. Registration is required .
Amidst the hustle and bustle leading up to MAX, I managed to steal some time to work on a skunkworks project. The idea was to let people experience the fun and instant gratification of Flex, without needing to download and install anything at all. And thus The FLEXifier . Using The FLEXifier you...
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML. Seb Duggan has ported the code and created a Java CFX tag named CFX_Markdown .
The LiveCycle Productivity Kit is a Java package contains several classes that implement LiveCycle APIs as helper classes (and as Java classes, they can be called by ColdFusion, too). These classes cover LiveCycle Security, Reader Extensions, Workflow as well as Policy Server. There are also other...
It's been a long day here at MAX. This is the first chance I have gotten to get to my computer, and it looks like all of the bloggers here have beaten me to the punch. But, here are some thoughts on MAX thus far: The opening keynote was superb, definitely one of our more exciting keynotes, and...
TextMate is a powerful and popular Mac text editor. Bill Duenskie wrote to tell me that he has created CFTextMate , a ColdFusion bundle which provides ColdFusion support for TextMate.