I was looking for a way to set parameters more quickly to newly added childs and I found out something interesting. (Note that this will not result in faster code execution, it’s merely to type less . I did some testing for the performance, check it out at the bottom of the page.) Normally when [...]
Tag people in your pictures using dreamweaver CS4
You all probably use facebook. One of the features is that you can tag people in your photos. On roll over a small popup is shown with the name of your contact. Recently I was giving a course about dreamweaver CS4 and upon playing around with the (spry) tooltips and the image maps, the students [...]
Ben Forta is coming to town
For those of you who don’t know Ben Forta, he’s the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books about ColdFusion (nad other technologies). He’s also the director of the evangelism team. Every once in a while you get the chance to meet with him at some ColdFusion event, but not often in [...]
Category: AIR, ColdFusion, Conference, Flash Builder /
Tags: AIR, Ben Forta, ColdFusion, event, Flash Builder
How does Flex know an HTML popup has been closed?
Imagine a situation where you have a Flex application and you need to display a popup window in which an external application is doing something else with the same data. You don’ have control over the external application, but you know it is written in HTML and PHP. Imagine also that your Flex application needs [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, Flex, HTML, LiveCycle Data Services /
Tags: communicate, notify, popup close, RTMP, server push
ColdFusion 9 and ORM: Write all, read some
Just a little thing I found out today using Coldfusion 9 new ORM feature. Say you have a login system based on a user table, this can easily be done with orm. You just create a cfc where you define your database fileds as parameters and call the necessary orm function. Out of the box [...]
An update to a simple facade
I developed a small flash component that keeps track of all the notifications (using my simple facade) that are send within your flash application. It will show you in a log format which notifications have been sent and also gives you an overview of which class is connected to which notification type. Of course this [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, Flash /
Creating cool text effects with actionscript 3
With the introduction of actionscript 3, one of the classes that came with a lot of new features is the Textfield class. To be more specific, we now have access to more information about the textfields content such as character, paragraphs and line metrics. The goal in this blog post is to show you how [...]
fl packages in flex/flash builder
Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn’t find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that error wasn’t so weird [...]
Adobe certified expert
So yesterday I finally took the time to do my recertification for Flash CS4 (93%) and I must say I finished with mixed feelings. Sure I was happy that I now can finally put that certified expert/instructor logo on my site but the exam experience itself was a little bit dissapointing. First of all, a [...]
Category: Flash /
Scotch On The Road in Brussels
On Tuesday, Octobre 27 the Scotch On The Road tour landed in Brussels. This event is all about ColdFusion. Being a Flex developer starting out with ColdFusion and having seen loads of good stuff about the latest version, ColdFusion 9, I just had to be there to see what’s what. I must say that I [...]
