An Adobe AIR application that brings the ColdFusion 8 documentation to your desktop that is surprising small, easy to use, extremely fast, and built using the Ext JavaScript library.
Get a quick primer on Gears, the open source project by Google that aims to expose new modules and capabilities for the browser that provide general purpose building blocks for web applications to unlock the capabilities of the local machine in a safe manner.
Interested in Adobe AIR? Check out this brief new technologies demonstration I gave on Adobe AIR to my colleagues at Hamilton College.
Ever work with <cfdirectory> or <cfzip> and notice that they both ignore empty directories? This might make sense with some business logic, where an empty directory can (and should) be ignored. However, what if you want to ensure that empty directories are included in a zip file?
Read MoreHand on Flex training will be happening not too far from Central New York this weekend at Montclair State University in NJ. This is two days of training, $75 for each day, which will consist of a full day of training by Farata Systems on Friday 9/26 and then traditional sessions on Saturday 9/27.
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Adobe announced the latest versions of their most popular software packages, bundled as Adobe Creative Suite 4. Some of the cool new features include the content-aware resizing features in Photoshop, code-hinting for JavaScript (including hinting for your favorite library/framework) and photoshop smart objects in Dreamweaver, and more.
Borrowing some code & ideas from Pete Freitag’s CFIMAGE presentation; this is a rather simple, safe, and easy way to upload photos using a User-Defined Function in ColdFusion. Uploading files is very straight forward in ColdFusion, but I like this function because it takes care of all the little details, so I can concentrate on working with the file afterwards, and moving to the next iteration when programming.
Read MoreI ran into two small hurdles when installing the ColdFusion 8.0.1 updater on my CentOs Linux server. Here is a quick overview of what I did to get the installer to work.
Read MoreIn case you haven’t already checked it out, be sure to have a look at the applications available for download at the Adobe AIR Marketplace on Adobe Exchange. What is the Adobe AIR Marketplace? According the FAQ:
Read MoreAdobe AIR Marketplace is a place where AIR developers can publish their Adobe AIR applications for users to download. You can find the Adobe AIR Marketplace at www.adobe.com/go/marketplace.
Thats right, you can get Flex Builder 3 Professional for education for free if you qualify.
Read MoreAs I am sure you have probably already heard, the official AIR 1.0 was released, along with an update to the Ext JS framework to work with the AIR application sandbox.
Read MoreI wanted to learn what Adobe AIR was all about, so I created an AIR application with the ColdFusion 8 documentation that utilizes the Ext 2.x library. The application allows you to easily view and search the ColdFusion 8 documentation. Best of all, no need to be online - everything is stored locally in the sqlite database - so it runs extremely fast. There are still a couple of minor bugs, and I am hoping to make some future improvements to the application, so be sure to check back.
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