How to Handle Object Composition?
Christopher R contacted me through my contact form to ask about object composition. To reiterate, composition models a "has-a" relationship between... more »
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Mach-II 1.5 Application Skeleton
I've put together an application skeleton for Mach-II 1.5 applications. This application skeleton is a nice way to get a Mach-II application up and... more »
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Quick Tip For Installation of ANT FTP Tasks in Flex Builder
I installed the dependencies for the FTP Task in ANT this morning and when I ran the ANT task I promptly got this error: Could not create type ftp... more »
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Comparators in CF with Groovy
I don't know about anyone else, but wanting to create little ad hoc Java classes in my CF apps in a common occurrence for me. With my CF Groovy... more »
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Email Non-Delivery Due To No Reverse DNS Record
Everything's working great for you. User's are being redirected to the appropriate subdirectories on your web server, and you're sending and receiving... more »
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Nested Set Trees in ColdFusion (v0.2)
A common technique to manage hierarchical data in a relational database is to use an "Adjacency List" model, where you have both an ID column and a... more »
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5 Cool Additions and 1 Undocumented Function in ColdFusion 8.01
The release notes for ColdFusion 8.0.1 detail 10 pages of tweaks and new features. Here are five cool additions, and one undocumented function, in no... more »
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Content Is Not Allowed In Prolog - ColdFusion XML And The Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)
The other day, Dustin Chesterman asked me about an XML parsing error he was seeing. He was getting the "Content is not allowed in Prolog" XmlParse()... more »
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HTML OnMissingImage
Solution 3 (winner): Did you know that the image tags have an onError attribute? I can't believe that after 15 years of web development I just found... more »
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Brian's Blog: Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.
If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to... more »
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Degrafa Pie Chart
A friend of mine asked if it was possible to create a pie chart component using Degrafa instead of using the Flex pie chart component. Before this I... more »
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Data Services Stress Testing Framework
The Data Services Stress Testing Framework helps developers using LiveCycle Data Services ES 2.6 load test their applications. This tool was formerly... more »
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Easy Setup Guide for BlazeDS: Zero to hero in (less than) an hour with Amazon EC2
Ever wanted to get started with BlazeDS? A bug bit me yesterday that forced me to sit at my computer for hours on end until I could achieve two... more »
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MG3 Video Sneak Peak: Event Generation
One of my favorite features coming in MG3 is purely for developer ease of use: hit an event that doesn't exist while in development mode, and it'll... more »
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Variable Modifiers in Flex vs ColdFusion CFC Scopes
Coming from ColdFusion, it can take a while to get your head around the different variable modifiers in Flex and what you use them for. I thought I'd... more »
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Setting the selected date in a DateChooser control in Flex
The following example shows how you can set the selected date for a Flex DateChooser control by setting the selectedDate property to a Date object.
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JavaScript for Tabular Data with Flash CS3 and AIR
The basic premise for the demonstration is that HTML script bridging is important to Flash developers largely to be able to quickly and easily manage... more »
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Objects, Tables and ORMs – part deux
The other day I looked at inheritance strategies for ORMs. Today I want to look at some of the other times where there isn't necessarily a 1:1... more »
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Objects, Tables and ORMs
One of the quickest tests of an ORM is to look at how flexible it is when mapping objects to tables. Here are some of the possible requirements to... more »
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Custom Cell Editors and Renderers in a JTable
Let's say you need to whip up a control GUI, and you need to do it fast. You need to control variables of different types, and there are a few dozen... more »
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Flex Powered Adobe Photoshop Express
Today, Adobe Systems released the beta version of Photoshop Express. Photoshop Express is a web based version of the popular Flagship Image Editing... more »
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POI ColdFusion Custom Tags First Release
These ColdFusion custom tags allow you to create native Microsoft Excel binary files. They create PRE-2007 compatible files. The following is a list... more »
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ColdFusion, Axis, Windows .NET and Web Services Tips
Tips for ColdFusion, Axis, Windows .NET and Web Services
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Adobe MAX 2008/2009
MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, California, Milan, Italy and Tokyo, Japan. MAX is an experience unlike any other, an opportunity to... more »
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User Experience - Homer Simpson Style
I happened upon a Simpson's episode the other day that, despite having nothing to do with User Experience, made me think of a common experience in web... more »
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