Rich Internet Applications and the systems that drive them
Posted in ColdFusion, Misc, Rails, Ruby, YouTube on Oct 10th, 2007
A friend of mine IM’d me with a link to this hilarious video, done in the spirit of the Apple Mac VS. PC ads. Now don’t read to much into my posting this on my blog, I like both of these technologies and I’m not choosing sides here. I just like funny when I see [...]
Posted in Actionscript, ColdFusion, Flex on Mar 7th, 2007
I just got out of the 360 Flex day 3 keynote, lots of great information (more on that later). At the end of the keynote Ebay announced the immediate availability of an AS3 library for its services.“The eBay ActionScript 3.0 library provides an interface between the eBay XML API and ActionScript 3.0. This open-source library [...]
Posted in ColdFusion, Flex on Mar 7th, 2007
The 360 Flex conference has been terrific, I’ve been learning a ton and meeting some really nice people. I really wanted to blog more during the conference but the wireless at Ebay Town Hall has been hammered with use (go figure!) and evenings have been full to say the least. I’ll try and get some [...]
Posted in ColdFusion, Eclipse on Mar 1st, 2007
In this post I’ll explain how to assign an Eclipse editor to a specific file by name.
Why is this necessary? This blog is running on Machblog Beta 2. Machblog obfuscates the the MachII configuration file by adding a .cfm extension to the file, so it ends-up being mach-ii.xml.cfm. This technique is highly effective, simple and [...]
Posted in ColdFusion on Jan 22nd, 2007
Looks like Adobe is going to widen the testing for ColdFusion 8 (Scropio). You can sign-up to test ColdFusion 8 Scorpio here.
Posted in ColdFusion on Jan 22nd, 2007
For a few days now Mark Drew et al have been teasing us about a mystery “it” that is coming in a few days. There’s been quite a bit of speculation across the blogosphere about what “it” is.
At first I thought Mark was hyping the long awaited 1.3 release of CFEclipse but as the [...]
Posted in ColdFusion, Flex, Flex Builder, OS X on Jan 17th, 2007
Maybe I'm missing something here (I sincerely hope I am). After reading Ben's post on the new CF Demo I was all fired up to try it for myself. This is the greeting I received when I attempted to run the plug-in.
My heart sank with disappointment. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not purposely [...]