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Brand New Adobe Flex Course scheduled in Denver!

On3 is adding a NEW! Adobe Flex course – we may be the first to offer it anywhere: Flex 3: Developing ColdFusion 8 Enabled Rich Internet Applications.

The training covers the Flex client, Eclipse & Flex builder, the Flash virtual machine & how the Flex application development process is designed. It covers Actionscript, how …

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Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 classes added

On3 has some excellent ColdFusion Classes scheduled during the next few months to celebrate the grand opening of our new headquarters and training center location on the 16th Street mall in Denver. The new address starting on August 1st will be: Denver Petroleum Building, 110 16th St, Ste 604, Denver, CO 80202. Please drop by …

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RDS in Eclipse

There is a new view that you can get from Adobe Labs that will add an RDS view to the eclipse IDE. It uses an updated version of ColdFusion MX, so it takes an update to your ColdFusion MX server before you add the plugin to eclipse.

The RDS view can be configured to point …

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Getting Started with Flex

When teaching or consulting Flex, you will often be asked for examples of how to do “xyz”. Here are few links that will help.Flex and CF:
Integrate Flex with CF security

File Upload:
File Upload in Flex/Flash in Internet Explorer

File Upload Using Flex/Central/Java

Architecture Ideas:
Cairngorm and an associated Breezo that will help explain

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Feelin’ the Love From Your Logs

I recently had some datasource issues that I was able to figure out with a bit more feedback from the JRun logs.

First, for those of you who are not system admins, make sure you make a copy of the …

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CFFunction Tip

Extra white space can be a problem for some in ColdFusion. If you are creating ColdFusion Components (CFC) or User Defined Functions (UDF) then there is an attribute to the CFFUNCTION tag that can help.

The OUTPUT Attribute: You should add the attribute output=”no” to the CFFUNCTION tags in your CFC/UDF when it is not …

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CFForm “Object Expected” Error

Helping a friend the other day, I discovered some quirkiness in using CFForm in a hosted environment. Now, if you have not gotten used to using CFForm in a hosted environment already… here a little bit of advice.
Copy the entire CFIDE/scripts directory into your site. Second, add the scriptSrc attribute to the CFForm tag …

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CFSWITCH Performance Issue in CFMX 7

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 …

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Set up FarCry in a hosted environment

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 …

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