The development practice at Webapper does a fair bit of “version 2″ system development. Our customer has an existing application, built maybe in ColdFusion, maybe in PHP or another scripting language. Maybe in Access forms, maybe as a desktop application. We’ll use it as a prototype for creating a new webified application. One part of these [...]

I was more excited about the FB3 to FB5 presentation than this presentation, but a lot more people have requested the materials for this one, so here it is. Download here Integrating.zip The presentation didn’t have a working sample application, but inside, you will find the handful of example files I showed, as well as a PowerPoint Comments [...]

I’ve had a few people ask for the materials from my “Making the Jump from FB3 to FB5″ presentation at the Frameworks Conference from earlier this month. Sorry for the delay, but I finally put together all the materials fit for consumption. Download here turkeylogin.zip Inside, you’ll find the PowerPoint along with a sample application which, although [...]

I’ve been building an app that uses CFDocument to build out some FlashPaper and PDF’s. Everything was working great on my local development box, but when I pushed it to my production box, generation of both the FlashPaper and PDF files was taking forever. Processing time went from 4-5 seconds to 3-6 minutes. Eventually, I tracked [...]

A few of the Webappers had a rousing discussion about testing, specifically the various kinds of testing, the various roles involved in testing and the various technologies used in testing. For my part, I’ve been investigating Selenium, but “doh!” I can’t use Selenium for testing Flex apps. Or can I? What about the Flex-Ajax bridge? [...]

So, Nat makes a great point that vars not specifically placed in the var scope become CFC instance variables. To be honest, I didn’t even realize this myself until he pointed it out. However, the REAL reason you should be explicitly var-scoping your local variables in a CFC method has to do with [...]

Concepts People often think of SSL as a form of encryption. Strictly speaking, it’s not; SSL is a protocol or “cryptosystem” that uses existing encryption algorithms in a way that ensures privacy. To that end, SSL is not just about encryption; it’s also about authentication, ensuring that you’re connecting to the party you think [...]

Hey all. Just wanted to let everyone know that we’re nominated for SysCon’s Readers’ Choice awards (CFDJ and WebDDJ) for our consulting services and for our SeeFusion tool. Our consulting services are in the Best Consulting Service category (duh), and SeeFusion is in the Best Web Development Tool and Most Innovative Application categories (you can [...]

Yes, the use of the var scope is idiotic. I haven’t met a developer yet (in person) who thinks that Macromedia did it “right” with that keyword. But Steve’s opinion that you don’t need it because a CFC only needs two scopes isn’t fully fleshed-out, I think. By default, the attributes that a VAR’ed variable [...]

Macromedia (Not Adobe, I assume) screwed up with this one. The var keyword needs to go away. Think about this for a minute. When was the last time you wanted to NOT use the VAR keyword in a CFC? Reread that sentence. I’m not suggesting we want to not var our variables. I’m suggesting we ALWAYS [...]