Someone in #flex was talking about how there were no good examples for doing uploads with Flex and ColdFusion. Sounded like an excellent topic to cover here. Now this example is a tiny bit more complex than previous examples, because I needed to cover two methods of functionality: single file uploads and multi-file uploads. Both [...]

Move over design patterns, here come crash patterns! I’ll be talking about this concept in my “Server Down” CFUnited 2008 presentation in June. As many of you know, we here at Webapper have gotten loads of “server down” calls and emails over the years, so the purpose of my talk is to organize all of [...]

Disclaimer: This post is not about best practices or anything of that sort. This is just a recount of my first attempt at using Ant with an open-source Flex library project. Here are the steps I went through (well, minus the steps that did nothing) to get my first Ant build script up & running; Installing Ant There [...]

Here’s another section from my presentation at CFUnited: // This segues into the question of what to do when the customer needs an “estimate” or requires a “fixed bid”? I think I just answered that one – you write a thorough spec doc, break it down into tasks and provide an estimate based on your anticipated schedule. [...]

There’s a pretty good article about job titles in the current ColdFusion Developer’s Journal: Are the Job Titles “Web Designer” and “Web Developer” Too General? – There are a lot of professions that have emerged from the web: designers, developers, strategists, search engine optimists, information architects, usability and accessibility consultants, the list goes on… Today, [...]

I was reading with some amusement Doug Boude’s retort to a Java purist that was dismissing ColdFusion for being too… simple? to be considered a “real” language, and I was reminded of a topic I commonly rant on. It’s what I call the Three Phases of Programmer Development. Phase One A novice programmer is happy to [...]