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Interview with Ben Forta on March 9, 2010

Steven / March 18, 2010 / No comments

On March 9, 2010, Ben Forta was in Liege, Belgium to do a very nice session on ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder. In his session he talked about the nifty features of ColdFusion Builder, which will be released very soon now. Another subject that was touched was of course the fact that ColdFusion and Flex/Flash are [...]

Category: ColdFusion, Coldfusion Builder, Conference / Tags: Ben Forta, ColdFusion, Coldfusion Builder, interview, Liege

Ben Forta is coming to town

Steven / February 2, 2010 / No comments

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

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Flex 4 – Controlling a custom component’s skin states

December 28, 2011

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 [...]

Do Flex and LiveCycle still have a future?

December 20, 2011

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();

October 27, 2011

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 [...]

Using binding expressions in ColdFusion 9

September 6, 2011

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

July 13, 2011

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 [...]

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Tag Archive for Ben Forta

Interview with Ben Forta on March 9, 2010

Ben Forta is coming to town

Meanwhile, on the blog