Beta 1 Release I don't know about you, but when I travel, I like to get the best price. However, I can't stand digging around Orbitz, Expedia, etc. to find the best price. Kayak is a great little service that will search all those sites, plus th...

I ran into this problem earlier today and wanted to put it out there for the rest of you: You cannot put your per app mapping declarations within onApplicationStart(), or any other function in Application.cfc, they must go in the cfc body. BAD:...

After talking to Ben Stucki at 360|Flex, I decided that I should create a Google Code site for my code samples and preso posts. I am currently in the process of moving all my os code and preso samples into this repository for public consumption. Go...

I recently had a situation where I needed functionality to serialize and de-serialize a ColdFusion complex variable. Recalling that CF8 now lets us serialize CFCs using java.io.ObjectOutputStream, I figured it would probably let me serialize other C...

Note: This came out of a conversation I had earlier today with Brian Rinaldi The build up to the release of ColdFusion 8 saw a LOT of new features for CF8. Everything from the AJAX functionality to CFTHREAD was talked about extensively by the comm...

OK, so I'm admittedly following Adam's lead on this. I was on the fence, but figured "What the hell? Why not?". MY SURVEY RESPONSES I encourage ALL 360|Flex speakers to do the same and post your results. It's all about transparency, right?...

Flex or AJAX? Which one is better? Which one will "win" in the RIA space? I am tired of this argument. I'm tired of seeing posts on MXNA keeping this debate alive. It's a non-issue, really. I think that people make it an issue when they try...

By now, unless you've been under a rock, you know what ANT (another neat tool) can do for you as far as build files go. If you haven't then let me sum it up for you: With ANT, you can test, build, and deploy your applications. I was in need of...