The long-promised IDE for Flex development has been released, and is available at Macromedia's site. Seems a lot like a Dreamweaver for RIA's, featuring Code vs. Design views, styling, and CSS support.
0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:15 AM - Categories: Flex and ColdFusion
Doug Hughes, quasi-infamous author of the Alagad Image Component, is my neighbor in my office, occupying the cube next door.
I also think he's losing at, as the following has been said, mainly to himself, in the past five minutes:
Doug: "Infinite recursion. It's awesome."
Doug: "I'm not sure what I did. This custom tag...you can nest some children in it. And then you can nest another base tag inside them....anyways, the server's just not responding."
Doug: "I think I killed Chewbacca."
Scott: "Han's gonna be pissed."
10 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:52 AM - Categories: Off Topic
In this post, I'll be expanding on the best practice of using variables to configure applications, why it's important, and provide a demo of using an XML file to configure multiple modules of an application.
15 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 7:00 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
August is Macromedia Certification month, meaning a whopping 60% off certification fees. I took advantage of it yesterday and finally got certified in ColdFusion MX (w/ advanced status to boot). If you don't take advantage of it now, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:24 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
Call it karmic retribution, but as soon as I posted how I was working around cfFile restriction, all of my mappings suddenly disappeared. Anyhow, my site is back up now - sorry for the interruption.
0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:22 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
Well, my hosting company moved me to a 6.1 server after a few requests. They're good folks, but we found out that my account shouldn't have had access to cfFile, and I really don't want to pay more than I'm currently paying.
Good thing the Macromedia's cfFile restriction doesn't apply to direct use of Java.
4 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 2:15 PM - Categories: ColdFusion MX
Your data is the heart of your application, and if you're not keeping it safe, you're asking for real, tangible trouble down the road. As developers, it's important to our applications, our employers, and our own livelihoods to take every measure possible to enforce data security.
4 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 6:54 AM - Categories: ColdFusion MX