http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm Joe Rinehart en-us Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:02:05 -0500 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:37:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss joe@firemoss.com joe@firemoss.com joe@firemoss.com http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm no http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2010/1/6/Kellan-Rinehart-is-born--dont-try-this-at-home I've been out for a bit on family and paternity leave. Many have already sent congratulations - thanks a million! I often joke with Dale that we do things the hard way: custom wedding dresses, bicycles I build by hand in the garage, and so on. ... Off Topic Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:37:00 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2010/1/6/Kellan-Rinehart-is-born--dont-try-this-at-home http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/23/Swiz-tidbit--RemoteMethodMediator I'm on vacation for a few days, and Ava and Dale are taking a nap...so I went for a walk and thought up a component for playing around with in Swiz. Instead of using Swiz.executeServiceCall() to invoke methods on RemoteObjects, I cooked up a "Remote... Flex Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:00 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/23/Swiz-tidbit--RemoteMethodMediator http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/21/Swiz-in-20-minutes-video--byebye-boilerplate I was asked today at work if I could do a quick walkthrough of the Swiz framework via Connect. In the end, we decided that I should recorded a screencast that anyone can view, available below. Swiz is a darn-near magical framework for Flex that g... Flex Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/21/Swiz-in-20-minutes-video--byebye-boilerplate http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/20/Creating-a-ColdFusion-9--Tomcat-Environment-in-Eclipse I'm currently working on a few completely separate ColdFusion 9 projects. Instead of managing Apache connectors and CF instances, I've chosen to do simple per-project deployments of ColdFusion 9 onto Tomcat. Set up this way, ColdFusion starts in ... ColdFusion MX Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/20/Creating-a-ColdFusion-9--Tomcat-Environment-in-Eclipse http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/19/Back-to-the-BlogCFC It was time to shake things up a bit, so I've shifted back to BlogCFC along with a new layout. I'm once again actively writing CF on a daily basis, and wanted a platform where I felt more comfortable posting code snippets, attachments, and hacki... Blog News Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:13:00 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/19/Back-to-the-BlogCFC http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/7/writing-flex-and-coldfusion-apps-mxunit-ftw Over the past three years, I've created and waded into a few ColdFusion and Flex applications, good and bad.  The good all have a common theme:  unit tests (integration tests, really) that test the actual CFC endpoints the Flex application uses. T... Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:47:50 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/7/writing-flex-and-coldfusion-apps-mxunit-ftw http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/7/coldfusion-9-orm-generic-dao-wrapper I've been using Hibernate for a while now in Java / Groovy projects, but I tend to not use it directly from my service layer.  Instead, I've found it simpler / more testable / more portable to still use the DAO pattern, wrapping Hibernate functionali... ColdFusion MX Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:40:00 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/10/7/coldfusion-9-orm-generic-dao-wrapper http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/9/11/automagically-use-coldspring-in-mxunit-tests With CF9 on the horizon, I'm back using ColdFusion again (yay!).  I'm rolling out a new project at Booz Allen, and I'm knocking out a bunch of unit tests this morning.  One thing I miss in MXUnit versus what I've been using in the J2EE world is the a... Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:56:41 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/9/11/automagically-use-coldspring-in-mxunit-tests http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/7/9/swiz-it-does-a-ria-good I wrote a popular MVC framework for ColdFusion.  I ported it to Flex.  I've done large-scale Cairngorm projects, and been involved in PureMVC and Mate tasks.  The short of it all is that, for me, Swiz just owns the competition and any other MVC frame... Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:58:17 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/7/9/swiz-it-does-a-ria-good http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/7/6/comparing-swiz-and-puremvc I'll soon be a developer on a good-sized PureMVC project, so I thought it'd be good to...well...learn PureMVC.  I've diddled with its sample code and read its documentation, but largely avoided it in the past.  My brain works more in the lighter-weig... Flex Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:16:32 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/7/6/comparing-swiz-and-puremvc http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/5/18/did-it-i-finally-won-a-bike-race This weekend, I finally reached a goal I've had for a long time:  I won a full-on organized cycling race, despite running into 2.5 trees and having one complete wipe-out. Back before Model-Glue, I weighed in at 180lbs and was racing for Evolutio... [More] Off Topic Mon, 18 May 2009 09:40:15 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/5/18/did-it-i-finally-won-a-bike-race http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/5/1/modifying-liferay-services-thanks-coldspring At work, I've been working on an implementation of Liferay, an open source portlet server that has a focus on content management and collaborative / social applications.  It's a good-sized departure from ColdFusion development, but I'm finding that w... OOP Joe Drinks Java Fri, 01 May 2009 08:38:33 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/5/1/modifying-liferay-services-thanks-coldspring http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/4/28/linux-flex-builder-canned-who-cares I have a feeling that I'm shaking a beehive by saying it, but when I read that Flex Build on Linux was "canned", I have to admit that my reaction was "Who cares?" Linux represents about 1.05% of desktop OS market share.  If Adobe's crunched the numb... Off Topic Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:15:09 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/4/28/linux-flex-builder-canned-who-cares http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/4/24/changing-a-flex-datagrid-item-s-look-feel-based-on-data-state Here's my use case:  Some business-focused RIAs I've worked on have allowed users to add items to lists, normally shown in a DataGrid.  When a user adds a new item, I typically don't show it in the DataGrid until it's been saved server-side:  that ju... Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:45:19 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/4/24/changing-a-flex-datagrid-item-s-look-feel-based-on-data-state http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/4/22/using-swiz-s-dynamicchannelset-with-push-polling-jms I've really come to enjoy using Swiz's DynamicChannelSet so that I don't have to much around with services-config.xml, at least for my client side purposes.  Hopefully, Flex / Spring integration will soon do away with my need for services-config.xml ... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:10:23 -0500 http://www.firemoss.com/index.cfm/2009/4/22/using-swiz-s-dynamicchannelset-with-push-polling-jms