I’ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled “Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications” and want to publish another teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware. // What About Data-Centric Applications? Early in the project, you need to determine whether this is a data- centric [...]

There was some confusion in #flex yesterday. The question came up on how a child component could access the parent component. Eventually, it came down to they wanted to pass some data from the child back to the parent. Well, the “black box” method of component programming says that we should use custom events to send [...]

I’ve been working on my CFUnited presentation titled “Reviving the Lost Craft of Writing Specifications” and thought I’d publish a teaser that might make it into the final version. This is raw, rough, uncut and unedited so beware. // Sometimes, a client knows what they want in the end, but really truly can’t tell you all the [...]

Someone on #flex asked about preventing text from appearing in a TextInput or TextArea, when the user is using a keyboard shortcut. After a little discussion, I came up with a working example. I decided to use shift-space to simplify things. The first assumption is that you’re listening for keyboard shortcuts at the application level: ::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_1:: Now, you’ve [...]

Over the weekend I was writing a simple little app, and came across something that should have been trivial, but turned out to throw me for a loop momentarily. I needed to drive some data from XML instead of my tried-and-true ColdFusion components, and I realized I’d never done it before. So, here’s the example: First [...]

In our quest for world domination, we’re again staging a mini-invasion of CFUnited. (As the plan progresses, we’ll rename it “SeeFun”, as part of our related effort to stamp our “See” product brand on everything that moves. But I digress…) So far, we’ve got 3 speakers with 4 sessions: Steve Nelson Building Google Maps Applications with ColdFusion Building offline [...]