This tidbit just in: if you've had an issue where you have things in mappings (like ColdSpring, for example) and you're having issues with those mappings resolving correctly while hitting CFCs via the built-in Flash Remoting gateway that comes with ColdFusion, try this:Open {cf install dir}/web-inf/flex/remoting-config.xml and change <use-mappings>false</use-mappings> to <use-mappings>true</use-mappings> (line 24 in my remoting-config.xml file).Restart your ColdFusion instance.

I’ve blogged about this class several times, but to reiterate, Alagad will be offering a four day training class on Model-Glue in Arlington, Virginia between February 4th and 7th 2008. The class will take students from the foundations of CFC based programming to the intricacies of Model-Glue, ColdSpring and other related ColdFusion frameworks. If you haven’t already heard about the class you can learn more here.

I have been working on a Flex project that will use ColdFusion on the backend. Earlier this week I ran into a little problem that apparently has been reported in the past, but I was unable to find any information ahout the issue. In a nutshell, when using ColdFusion on the backend of a Flex application, ColdFusion will not (cannot?) resolve a ColdFusion mapping for any code in the psuedo-constructor, or in methods called from the psuedo-constructor of a CFC.

OK so it's time to start sharing our ColdFusion wishlists again, now that CF8 is out and being used around the world. So what do I want to see in CF9?This:<cftransaction name="trans1" action="begin" result="trans1rslt" /><cftransaction name="trans2" action="begin" /><cfquery name="foo" datasource="foo" transaction="trans1">...

An interesting news item from c|net this morning: the British Government has fessed up to losing "two discs containing the details of everybody in the U.K. who claims and receives child benefits." c|net story here While it never specifies what kind of disks these were, I'm assuming CDs or DVDs. It's interesting to note that, according to the article, the disks (or possibly the files they contain) were password-protected, but not encrypted.

In two previous blog posts I had touched on the subject of Data Warehousing and how and why that differs from the sort of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMs) that we are now all so used to using. In the comments I got from one of those posts was a request to expand a bit more on the subject of "Normalizing" data. Normalizing data is at to root of RDBMs database structures. In my opinion it is far more art than science and there is rarely a 100% correct way to normalize data.

Putting my money where my mouth is! Yes that is a sort of strange way to start a blog post but I feel it pertinent to this post. So let's see, where should I begin; well let's go back almost 8 years to late 1999.

Would you risk driving at speeds up to 100mph (on the Autobahn of course ;o) for a distance equivalent to driving from Los Angeles to New York (2,500 miles) in a concept car which has only been driven across the car park - oops parking lot (my Britishisms got the better of me!)? The answer is you should not if you want to arrive safely and in a reasonable time-frame.

This is just a quick blog entry to hopefully help other people who end up in a similar situation as I did this morning. Specifically, I’ve been contributing to a new project and when to commit my updates into subversion this morning only to receive this lovely error: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: MKACTIVITY of '/foobar/!svn/act/1f177b34-1601-0010-84ad-c180bd3a7ab5': 403 Forbidden (http://svn.foobar.

In case you were not aware, Alagad is giving away free tickets to CF.Objective() to the first five registrants for our already very affordable Model-Glue training. We still have three tickets avaliable and the offer is only good through today. If you're already planning to attend CF.Objective() and you want some Model-Glue training, then you should seriously consider this offer!