I was scrolling through some feeds today when I cam across this post from Jeffry Houser. Joshua Cry posted a question that I thought I would take some time to answer. He wanted to know How do I loop over a query with AS3? Is the return type of a query an ArrayCollection? I came across many of the same questions and the first place I would suggest looking is the ColdFusion live docs.

Adobe TV has some great content up that you really need to check out. A series that I just noticed is called ADC (Adobe Developer Connection) Presents. These videos feature all of your favorite Adobe celebrities. They are also pretty short but very educational. Here are some of the videos I enjoyed.

This morning I was reading an entry by Ben Nadel on using single character wild cards. The article was a good one and I learned something new but I also posted comment saying how it would be great if we could use multiple filters. Steve Withington posted a response showing that indeed you could do this. This of course had me a little confused because I was always told that you could only use one filter. If your not sure what I am talking about lets look at the following example.

A couple weeks ago I wrote an tutorial on how to create a custom Grid Editor. The tutorial explained how you could tap into the power of Ext to create a select menu editor. In the example we used state as the edit field. This is a perfect example of where you would want to pick from a list rather than key in your answer. It has come to my attention that this functionality is baked right in to ColdFusion 8.

I know there are many users out there who love cfscript and many who really don't care for the syntax. I am really on the fence, I like the syntax but do not use it much because of the lack of support for certain tags and on the presentation layer it just does not mix well for me. One of the main reasons that Adobe is yet to support full scripting is the cfqueryparam tag. I am hoping that in the next version of ColdFusion they find a way to resolve this.

I would really like to find out what developers are looking for in the next version of ColdFusion. I am trying to put together a wish list to pass on to the engineering team (I know I am behind on this, sorry guys) and I am drawing a blank. I have a list of about 5 things right now so I could really use some feedback. After I get some feedback I will expand on this next week and we will see if we can grow this list to help the team out.

As you all know by now the grid in ColdFusion 8 is powered by the Ext framework. If you dive into the documentation you will find out that there is more that you can do with it then advertised. We have been looking at ways to customize the grid, today we will learn about event listeners. The grid has the ability to announce events as they are happening even if you are not listening for them. Events can include clicking on a row double clicking on a cell or even using a keyboard shortcut.

I came into work today only to find a great little present at my desk. I received a copy of Volume 2 and Volume 3. My collection is now complete and I want to give a big thank you to Eric H who picked this up off of my gift list.

Earlier today I wrote a short tutorial on grid editing. The tutorial walked you through on how you could easily edit your data right in a grid. While this is great it really is limited to certain use cases and on top of that we are limited with what the user can chose. In our example before we had a bunch of data including the state the artist lives in. If this were a full edit screen we would allow them to select a state from a drop down but in our grid it simply provides them a text box.

When the new grid features were announced in ColdFusion 8 people got very excited. I am not quite sure why but not to many people are talking about this feature these days. If you are new to grid editing support I encourage you to read an article by Ben Forta that outlines how to edit data in a grid. I am going to repeat some of that article but also show you a little more. Think of this as a refresher because the next tutorial I have will dive into some customization techniques.