 | 16 Apr 06:57 So in general - Flex has been easy for me to grok since it first came out. It's gotten easier over time, but normally, the most trouble I have is having to look up an argument to see how to do something in particular. However - one thing has troubled me for a while now. I've solved this problem before in earlier Flex apps, but I really don't think I have my head around it yet. 16 Apr 00:39 Everyone's favorite image utility CFC (imageUtils) got some really nice Tiff support thanks to Daniel Budde II. New functions include: isMultiTiff - Returns true if the Tiff image has multiple pages isTiff - Returns true if the image is a Tiff. 15 Apr 22:10 Samer asks: I know CFCs should never access SESSION/CGI variables, and these variables should be passed as arguments. In my case i have a lot of CFCs that calls another CFC "for logging" which reads SESSION and CGI variables, is there a way not to pass these variables as arguments in all CFCs? I think you touch on multiple things here - and each thing you touch on will have multiple answers with a lot of it being "it depends." So get ready Samer for an overload from me and my readers. 15 Apr 06:23 Greg did a quick interview with me last week concerning open source development. It isn't a long interview, but as it's a light post day for me, I thought I'd share. 15 Apr 01:27 A while back I posted quite a few blog entries on charting, including many talking about custom styles using the built in WebCharts engine included with ColdFusion. A Mr. Vadim Sokolovsky saw these entries and responded with a few pages on gpoint.com (the home of WebCharts3D) that specifically talk about custom charts and ColdFusion. 11 Apr 04:30 Asa asks an interesting question. I wasn't going to answer as Flash isn't my area really, but I had an idea and I figured I'd suggest it. Please feel free to correct me if this is dumb. Anyway, here is the question: I'm trying to make a file unloader using Flash & ColdFusion. I have a flash file embedded on a page that let's the user select a file, which is then posted to a ColdFusion page for upload. 10 Apr 22:41 I'm a bit late in posting this, but Joe has done a video preview of Model-Glue 3. The video shows off: Code generation for unknown events (which I have a problem with, and posted my concerns on his blog) SES urls out of the box Notice in the v... 9 Apr 20:20 I haven't seen this discussed yet, so I thought I'd bring it up (for those of you too lazy to read the release notes, and you know who you are!). One of the cool changes to ColdFusion 8.0.1 is the addition of the errorVariable and errorFile attributes to the cfexecute tag. As you can guess, this helps record any errors that may return from your external process. Before this change, there was no way to get the error. Here is a simple example: Handle the error... Handle the good result... 8 Apr 20:03 After grinding through various monsters and quests over the past 365 days, today I finally gained enough experience to hit level 35. Or in other words - it's my birthday! I don't quite feel 35 though. Something tells me I'll be getting a few Star War... 8 Apr 11:08 Believe it or not - I think the one feature of ColdFusion 8 I haven't tested at all is the Microsoft Exchange functionality. It looked cool and all (check out Scott's nice article on the feature) but I had no way of testing it. Today I ran across this article: Keep in Sync With a Free Exchange Server This describes a free Exchange service at Mail2Web. I signed up and then pointed my ColdFusion code at the account and it worked like a charm. | | |