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.
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Have you ever wanted to know if a request is coming from an Ajax call or from a standard GET/POST from the browser when using the ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality?
Read MoreI will be giving a brief presentation at the local ColdFusion User Group meeting tomorrow on my Ext.CFC that implements the basic features of ColdFusion 8’s <CFGRID> and associated tags. After releasing the inital CFC I began working on upgrading to the implementation to using the latest Ext 2.x - which required some minor changes. I have also completed the basic implementation of an editable grid, but want to finish the rest of the form controls available. So, here is the Ext.CFC upgraded to Ext 2.x with grouping ability.
Read MoreAdobe wants to pick your brain. They have released two surveys to gather information from the CF community on the future release of ColdFusion.
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.
Read MoreJax commented on my last post regarding the load time of my new homepage. I definitely noticed the load time increase dramatically after implementing ColdFusion 8’s <cfwindow>, <cfdiv>, and <cfform> tags instead of just using Prototype/scriptaculous with a custom JS/CSS file. Here is a quick summary of what I found.
Read MoreI have launched a new home page for my site, which utilizes ColdFusion 8’s <cfwindow> and <cfdiv> tags, along with heavy use of Prototype and Scriptaculous.
Read MoreOne of my primary frustrations with the ColdFusion 8 wrappers for Ext is the inability to specify your adapter. Why must I be forced to use YUI?
Read MoreA while back I decided that it would be cool to write an Ext CFC that would perform all most of the interfacing between ColdFusion and the Ext JS library. This was so long ago, that I don’t even remember when I started working on the project in my free time. I looked at the created date of the file, and it looks like I started this on April 17, 2007 (which might have been before Adobe announced that CF8’s <CFGRID> was to use the Ext library). Anyways, a fellow ColdFusion programmer, Isaac Sunkes, was asking about using the Ext library without CF8, which brought back the memories of working on this CFC. So, without further ado…
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