We’re happy to announce that, with the help of the dynamic duo from 360|Conferences, the Charity Code Jam is going to happen at 360|Flex in Indianapolis. After reading their blog post, we talked it over and decided this was another excellent way to spread good karma around.
Ali Daniali has plane tickets in hand now, and [...]
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July 2010 Update: Please review Charlie Arehart’s comments below about important ColdFusion 9-specific updates to this function.
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Ok, so I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking I must be crazy for suggesting that a simple built-in unique randomization function could somehow be instrumental in crashing a ColdFusion server, right? Well, before you go calling me a [...]
We’re happy to announce another big notch in our Web application engineering belt–Steven Erat joined Webapper last month! Steven has spent the past decade of his life as a senior member of the ColdFusion engineering and support divisions at Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe. Most recently at Adobe he was an engineer on the Flex SDK team. Unless you’ve [...]
Someone in #cfflex on DALnet was asking about a custom component. They wanted to have a component that had two lists in it, where selections from the first list would filter the options in the second. They had a method written out that would do the comparison and filtering on the two lists, but they [...]
The other day, someone asked me how they could re-use the code sample from Igor Costa’s post about getting the Rich Text Editor to output XHTML. Whenever you want to add functionality to an existing control, you just need to extend it. Here’s how:
Here’s the top bit of code from my XHtmlEditor.as file:
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_5::
The actual code [...]
In our continuing quest for world domination, we’re continuing our torrid growth, and to help with that we’ve secured the services of yet another former Allaire-ian. The estimable Michael J. Punsky joined Webapper last month as our Director of Professional Services. And for those of you who’ve ever utilized our ColdFusion TNT services, you can [...]
If you’re in the neighborhood, this is a quick reminder that CFUnited Express Denver 2009 is this coming Monday, April 6. Here’s a link to register if you’re interested; it’s not too late!
http://express.cfunited.com/go/denver/2009/
My talk is called “WholeSum Performance: How To Build The Fastest Web Applications On Earth”, and our Co-Founder Mike Brunt is also speaking; [...]
Just a note that I’ll be presenting at the Madison Adobe User Group meeting this Tuesday, 3/31. I’ll be presenting an intro to Flex/AIR/ColdFusion at American Family Insurance. More information is available on the Adobe Groups site: http://groups.adobe.com/posts/b5381e2718
Don’t forget to register if you’re coming!
A few years ago, we tried out Axosoft’s OnTime ticket managment/bug tracker. At the time, we were impressed. You can read the full details of my review here. After using it for a couple weeks, I hooked up the “BUGTRAQ” keyword in TortoiseSVN to enable us to have bi-directional links between SVN and OnTime. I [...]
I was having a couple issues with my Mac Pro. The most noticeable issue was that when I launched Console, it would open, but then give me nothing more than a spinning cursor. The less obvious symptom, which seemed unrelated, was that whenever I opened Terminal, or opened a new tab or window, there was a good [...]
