It has been a while since we’ve heard anything on ColdFusion and what would be coming next. But that just means that the ColdFusion team has been very hard at work. And now the latest and greatest version has arrived. You can download the new version at http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html Now, let me go over some of [...]
Importing multiple Excel sheets in Coldfusion 9
We all know Coldfusion 9 has some awesome Office integration. In this post, I’d like to show you a few ways of how you can easily import data from a multiple sheet Excel file. Getting the file To extract the data, we’ll off course need the Excel file on our server. In case you need [...]
Flex 4 – Controlling a custom component’s skin states
The new Flex 4 skinning architecture makes it easier for developers to completely change the look and feel of an application, while providing better separation between components and their skins. In this blogpost, by using FXG and the new states syntax, we’ll write a basic MXML skin that reflects it’s hostcomponent states. For those of [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, Flash, Flash Builder, Flex /
Tags: custom component, Flash Builder, Flex, FXG, Gumbo, Skinning
Do Flex and LiveCycle still have a future?
I’ve been quiet for quite some time now. There are 2 reasons for that. The first one is simply because I have been busy on a couple of projects and just didn’t find the time to write another blog post. The second reason is that I wanted to wait and see what would happen with [...]
I’ll be speaking at gotoAndSki();
Tonight I got one of the “coolest” emails you can get: I’ve been invited to give a session at gotoAndSki(); Switzerland on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2012, which is really awesome. Unfortunately I haven’t been to this conference before, but I’ve heard very nice things about it and let’s face it, skiing during the [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, ColdFusion, Conference, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: conference, gotoAndSki, Switzerland
Using binding expressions in ColdFusion 9
As a longtime Flex developer I’ve always been used to having binding expressions to do one or more of the following things: Bind the value of one input field to a data model Bind the value from a data model to an input field or label Bind the value of one input field to a [...]
Creating a custom required RadioButtonGroup Validator class in Flex
Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can customize) and a red component outline when the validation fails. Now, the problem with these [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, Flash Builder, Flex /
Tags: custom, RadioButton, RaioButtonGroup, validator
No more hacking PlayBook AIR apps
Yesterday I received yet another monstrous update for the BlackBerry PlayBook. While on the one hand it is awesome that BlackBerry are investing so much time and effort to make things better, but a 250MB update every 2 weeks or so is a little too much for my taste. So far, I was quite happy [...]
Prototyping: ActionScript’s best kept secret.
As a developer, once in a while you discover something new that makes you go ”How come nobody ever told me about this and why do I only find this out NOW ? ” Last year, when I discovered that a Function in AS3 is also a class and can be used as a a [...]
Category: Actionscript 2, ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, Flash Builder /
Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Flash, prototyping
Blitting a Particle transition between two images.
Sometimes when you are experimenting around with flash, you’ll notice that things can get a little laggy when you put too many things on the stage and try to move them around at the same time. The Display List is a very fast and easy way to handle the way things are displayed on the [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash /
Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, bitmap, Bitmapdata, blitting
