Updating the Flex 3 SDK with Charting

Today I realized that I had been compling my Flex applications with an old version of the Flex SDK.  I was using 3.0.0 while the latest version is 3.4.0, so I decided to update it by downloading the latest version from the Adobe Open Source website.

I put the files in a new folder [...]

Flex Layout: Absolute or Relative Positioning, Which is Better?

In Adobe Flex, there are at least 3 distinct ways of laying out (positioning) the elements of your application:

Absolute – using X and Y coordinates Relative – using nested HBox and VBox controls Constraints – using element attributes such as “top” and “bottom” to anchor controls within parents

How do you know which [...]

Converted from BlogCFC to WordPress

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Ooine.com has been converted from BlogCFC (ColdFusion) to WordPress (PHP). I would have loved to stay with BlogCFC because I am a professional ColdFusion developer, but WordPress is such a superior tool in every way… it’s not really a difficult decision. Sure, I’m giving up the chance to mess with the [...]

Using ColdFusion’s CFImage tag to create an iPhone icon red dot alert effect

Here is how to create the red dot overlay commonly used on the Apple iPhone and iPod to indicate various conditions within application such as waiting email, apps needing updating, etc.

Note: this requires ColdFusion 8.01

Here is an example of the effect we are going to create

Step 1: Get your images in [...]

Sneaky website registration tactics

I’m annoyed about a practice that has been gaining ground over the past few years, and I’d like to know how you feel about it. I’m talking about the practice of secretly getting your visitors to “invest” in your site before you tell them that they need to register. I’m torn because:

1) As [...]

Good Adobe Flex Design is Hard to Find

But not if you look on Theresaneil’s Weblog. This is a great summary of Flex tools and applications sporting modern non-flex design.

Here is another website (merhl.com) that features a lot of great Flex designs.

You can now use CSS for animation on a web page

Sigh, something else to worry about. Apparently the newest version of WebKit supports robust CSS animation. Using simple CSS scripting to you can force elements to change location, shape, colors, run effects, etc.

Surfin’ Safari

Could this spell trouble for Flash?

How to Style CFMenu using CSS

Related to: ColdFusion 8.01, cfmenu, css

Let’s cut to the chase. Styling cfmenu can be a freakin’ pain in the ass. The Adobe docs are virtually useless in this respect. The tag itself renders differently with respect to different versions of the JRE you may be running. For example, we upgraded from CF8 to [...]

ColdFusion in the Clouds with Amazon EC2

I’m creating this post so that can remember of couple of things for when I dig into ColdFusion cloud computing with Amazon EC2.

Adam Howitt’s presentation from 11/2207: https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a204547676/p95696588/

Walks you through using CF via EC2, though it may be out of date.

This comment from a blog on why you might (or might [...]

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