I've just been involved in a long thread with an individual who wanted to better understand the relationship between ColdFusion and Flex. Apparently, this is still a source of much confusion as I was asked similar questions at a user group earlier this week. So, I went back through the entire...
IBM has posted a technology preview of its Macromedia Flex plug-in for WebSphere Studio. See http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsadflex.
I just arrived back in the US, and am now online for the first time in over a day (staring in horror at my rapidly enlarging inbox). Last night I presented a Flex Sneak Peek to a combined CFUG/MMUG in London. The room was full, but we started late because of snowfall that almost brought London to a...
I am working on an application that requires users to select from long lists of options. I am not a fan of multiple select list boxes (that whole shift-click ctrl-click thing is a pain). In HTML I usually use lots and lots of checkboxes, but what I'd really like is a list of checkboxes, kind of a...
Earlier this week I blogged an example of Flex embedded in ColdFusion. This is a powerful and intuitive way to leverage Flex, but the installation and setup do require some know-how and manual tweaking. So, having gone through the process, and knowing that many of you will want to do the same, I...
My last Flex blog post demonstrated Flex as a ColdFusion client, a n-tier application using ColdFusion as the logic layer and Flex as the presentation layer. Here is another way to integrate Flex and ColdFusion; dynamically generated Flex. Click on URL http://www.forta.com:8100/cf/flex/tree.cfm to...
I'll be back in London at the end of this month, and so another visit to the UKCFUG. This time I'll be sneak peeking Macromedia Flex. Registration for this event is required, go to http://www.ukcfug.org/.
A few of you asked to see the ActionScript code use to implement the query2tree() function used in the Flex example I posted last week. So, here it is: function query2tree(src) { // Define tree object var tree:XML = new XML(); // Define vars var recNo:Number, itemCount:Number; var rec:Object; var...
My ColdFusion Resources page lists columns, articles, presentations and more. Over the years the list has grown to the point that the page requires about eight page-down scrolls to see the entire two column list. So, this page seemed like an ideal first Flex app; a tree control showing categories...
I used much of my quiet time over the holidays to play with Flex (the in-beta product formerly known as Royale), and honestly, it's been a quite a while since I have had this much fun. Flex is highly addictive, and has that same instant-gratification feel that makes using ColdFusion such a...