You will find this on a couple blogs, but since I”ve given presentations on ColdFusion performance since the Allaire days, I thought I should share.
My friends at webapper discovered an issue with CFSWITCH under load where the expression was a string.
In my presentations, I often encouraged the use of CFSWITCH over using if/elseif …
Read more →April 28, 2007 Tags: admininstration, AIR, ColdFusion, development
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I”m very excited that Flex 2 was finally released, but not for the reasons you may think. I”ve been working with Flex 2 since the alpha version, so I”ve gotten very familiar with it. So much so that I upgraded my instructor certification from Flex 1.5 to Flex 2.
All you code monkeys, myself …
Read more →June 28, 2006 Tags: Adobe, Flex, Training
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I just wanted to share a little bit with you about the soon to be released Flex 2 courses. Yes, courses!
There are plans for a few courses focusing on Flex 2 application development, charting with Flex 2 and …
June 28, 2006 Tags: Adobe, Certification, Flex, Training
Category: Flash Platform, Flex, Training No Comments
In Flex, you use a validator to ensure the values in the fields of an object meet certain criteria. You can assign each field of an object to a single validator. I”ve used the mx.validators.Validator class, which is an ActionScript …
March 28, 2006 Tags: development, Flex, validation
Category: Flex 1 Comment
In Macromedia Flex 1.5, there is a bit of fun to be had with htmlText in the <mx:Text> component. I was recently building an application in which I was displaying some content from a datasource when, for the strangest reason, …
Read more →January 28, 2006 Tags: development, Flex
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I’ve developed and implemented a few Content Management System (CMS) in my career. One of the best open source CMS for ColdFusion that I’ve found is FarCry. Unfortunately, it is hard to setup in a hosted environment because it …
Read more →April 28, 2005 Tags: CMS, ColdFusion, FarCry, Hosted
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