Posted in June 16th, 2008
I get very closed minded sometimes… and this is one of those times… when working with flash remoting with the ColdFusion 7.0.2 updater, there were a lot of good examples on http://www.asfusion.com, I followed them a lot, they were all great… they specified how to create a connection like the following: //create connection var connection:mx.remoting.Connection […]
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Posted in March 28th, 2008
Just noting for myself on how to update tables from other tables… Say you have a table called “customers” and you have a customerID as the primary key… you now have a cross reference table that joins customers to certain products, it’s only a 1 to 1 relationship in our situation (not very real world […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
When I googled “sorting dates in a datagrid in flex” I found all sorts of outdated material, and some really complicated results, that i tried, but they just didnt happen to work in my situation… i’m not sure what everyone else was doing to create their dates, but I’ve heard a number of people […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
You know… I’ve grown very fond of cfeclipse and have learned that when you do updates, and start getting miscellaneous errors, and you can’t seem to get anything working… to just start over and stop wasting time spinning your wheels trying to fix it. I spent my fair share of time, trying to get cfeclipse […]
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Posted in February 20th, 2008
Application – Source We are wrapping up with this great charting application at cfwebtools, and we get a call from a customer that says our data is wrong…. We listen to them, and debug, and for some reason we just can’t quite see the same thing he see’s… On top of that, no one else […]
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Posted in February 15th, 2008
Somebody posted on a forum and asked “How do you get a mx:Tree to populate with query data from flex?” Most of the examples out there use xml in the mx:Tree so I did the same… There are a few ways to get your query data to valid xml… You can go to cflib.org and […]
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Posted in February 15th, 2008
If you notice the selectedIndex of an mx:List or anything list based for that matter, be it a, tree, combobox, or anything that is built of the base List… whenever the dataprovider changes the selectedIndex is lost…. say i want to bind my <mx:List id=“myList” selectedIndex=“{customClass.someID}”>
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Posted in February 13th, 2008
We have a customer that would like to upload a file, and this file is a delimited text file… The first line is a Quoted date (“Tuesday, January 23, 2007”)… but as it gets read into coldfusion it is not a valid date… so what you have to do is convert it, using the “DateFormat()” […]
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Posted in February 13th, 2008
We are using the mx:RichTextEditor to edit a description of some sort…. the html that the rich texteditor outputs is the following <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=“2”><P ALIGN=“LEFT”><FONT FACE=“Verdana” SIZE=“10” COLOR=“#0B333C” LETTERSPACING=“0” KERNING=“0”>test</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT> If you copy and past this code into an html page, the font shows up huge much like so: test Ryan Stille, Jason H. of […]
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Posted in February 13th, 2008
I ran into the issue when querying this service, and hit the whole “Connection Failure” Problem, this confused me, and after about an hour of my own trouble shooting i hit the search engines and found that there is some known issue with formating…. you must include charset=”utf-8″ in the tag… there are a number […]
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Posted in February 13th, 2008
After some pretty extensive research, I was able to find a good blog post about a similar subject… The problem…
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Posted in February 13th, 2008
There was a post on an adobe forum wondering how to go about doing this, they state that they go on and on looking for how to do this, and so i’m gonna help’em out…
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Posted in February 11th, 2008
This is a continuation of Using a MenuBar in Flex 2.0 – Step 1 The difference between the posts, are that the first one uses inline xml in the mx:Script tag… this one will actually talk to a CFC and get the xml from a cfc generated from a query, this will IMMENSELY in created […]
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Posted in February 11th, 2008
There are many great things about flex, and the flash 9 player, and actionscript 3… I’m not brand new to flash, or flash development, i’ve never done anything truly amazing with it, but i’ve done what had to be done… it was always a pain… i’m so glad that flex 2.0 has released, i knew […]
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Posted in February 11th, 2008
In our team of developer’s we use a tracking system, to track work orders, bug fixes, feature requests, and the status of those projects… One of my recent assignments was to create a “Recently Updated List” This list will contain the trackID, and a Title… it will sort by the date in descending order so […]
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Posted in February 11th, 2008
http://succor.co.uk/index.cfm/… I found this very interesting blog from a cf-talk discussion, and found it was worth blogging. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”> <html> <head> <title>session tracker</title> </head> <body> <cfapplication name=“”> <cfset request.overallTotal = 0 /> <cfloop collection=“#application#” item=“applicationName”> <cfscript> sessiontrackerObj= createObject(“java”,“coldfusion.runtime.SessionTracker”); activesessions = sessiontrackerObj.getSessionCollection(‘#applicationName#’); nosessions=ListLen(structkeyList(activeSessions)); </cfscript> <cfif nosessions> <cfoutput> <h3>Total Sessions for #applicationName#: […]
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Posted in February 10th, 2008
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/11/1/improving-cfdirectory-performance this post is awesome… it’s an undocumented feature that sits in a live doc note on the live docs of coldfusion…. Here is what’s written on Ben’s Blog:
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Posted in February 10th, 2008
Here is a simple browser detection script <cfif Trim(ListGetAt(CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT, 2, “;”)) EQ “MSIE 6.0”> <link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“css/main_IE6.css” media=“screen” /> <cfelseif Trim(ListGetAT(CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT, 2, “;”)) EQ “MSIE 7.0”> <link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“css/main_IE7.css” media=“screen” />
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Posted in February 10th, 2008
Site: http://www.sonburst.com/nng/ The application no longer will display the time on the page, it turned to the original request of a progress bar that shows a percentage…. There are some problems of the page not doing what they want it to, when going back through mp3’s… the problem has been identified in .mp3 files are […]
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Posted in February 10th, 2008
This isn’t perfect, but what i had to do was use the “escape” method…. var artist = “Set Your Goals” var album = “Mutiny!” var someVar = ‘<br> Some Test’ + escape(artist) + ‘/’ + escape(album) + ‘end’; This was a workaround for some stuff I do for killtheheart player I haven’t been able to […]
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