Archive for June, 2003

30
Jun

Book Review: Design Patterns Explained

“Design Patterns Explained” is my first book review entry. So where do I start..
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30
Jun

EditPlus Client ActionScript & FCS setup files

I’ve been using EditPlus as my editor for a while now. Over that time i’ve built up some syntax files/ClipText/Auto-Complete files for both ActionScript and Flash Communication Server ActionScript for my personal use. I’ve been asked for these files before and thought I would just post it here for others that might find them useful.
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27
Jun

Handling file uploads without CFFILE

Many of us don’t have the luxury of dedicated servers and have to live with a shared host. Since hosts often limit some CF tags for security reasons, this appears to limit what we can do in CF. This question has come up a number of times in the forums so I put together an example of how to handle file uploads without CFFILE.
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27
Jun

Charting feature brainstorm

Now that our component set is done and released we’re starting to look at our enhancement list and coming up with ideas for the next version. We’ll probably have a maintenance release to add a few options and maybe a chart or two.

We’d love to hear your requests so feel free to post comments here or send me e-mail directly. document.write(”“); document.write(”sam”); document.write(”@”); document.write(”blinex”); document.write(”.com“);

If you’re not familiar with our charts, please check them out. http://www.blinex.com/products/charting

26
Jun

Creating case sensitive XML Attributes

There was a question on a mailing list today complaining that CFMX creates XML attributes as all capitals. The user would do something like this:

Which of course produces an XML document that looks like this:

The trick is to use the array access notation instead of dot notation. Once you do that, your case is preserved. This is a complete example.

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25
Jun

CFUN03 - Flash Communication Server Presentation

Kevin Towes and I gave a presentation on Flash Communication Server at CFUN. For those who did not attend the conference, this presentation was a bit different. Kevin and I ended up presenting together on stage. Kevin was speaking from Canada through Flash Communication server while I was physically at the conference.
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24
Jun

CFUN03 - Flash Remoting Presentation

I had the pleasure of giving a presentation introducing Flash Remoting at CFUN-03. The presentation introduces Flash Remoting and goes through 3 simple examples. I am providing all the code presented which also includes my ResultHandlerClass that I use for most the applications in my daily work.
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23
Jun

CFUN03 - Wrap-up and some interesting information

This was the first ColdFusion event that I have attended. It had a pretty good turn out and was a good event to go to. I was there giving two presentations (I’ll post more on those later) and was part of a panel discussion. I thought I would just sum up some of what people might find interesting about the event in this entry.
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22
Jun

CFUN-03: Flash for CFers

In my second CFUN presentation I introduced ColdFusion developers to Flash, reviewing the terminology, methodlogy of building applications–as opposed to animations, and an overview of the different communication technologies.
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21
Jun

CFUN-03: XML, XPath, and XSLT

I had the pleasure today to speak at the CFUN-03 conference about XML, XPath, and XSLT. The conference had a nice turnout and my presentation room was packed full of CFUNers eager to learn “What’s New for XML in CFMX” with a number of good questions.
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