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

WordPress Dashboard

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 [...]

Flex 3 Fade Transition Requires Embedded Fonts

I recently added a fade transition to a Flex app and was surprised to find that the Flex elements faded nicely as expected, but the text… the data of the application, failed to fade in or out. Needless to say, this looked quite strange.

After a bit of searching I discovered that I needed [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Full Google Notebook

Here is a link to my full CFObjective() 2008 Google Notebook. It has a little nicer format than the BlogCFC posts.

CFObjective() 2008 Google Notebook

CFObjective 2008 – Day 3 – Clustering and Distributing ColdFusion Applications

Mike Brunt – Alagad

Clustering is becoming more and more important in the CF world. Think about it from the beginning. For example, think about paths, locale issues, etc. Software Clustering (Java, CF, JRun), Hardware Clustering Consideration, Hardware and Software Clustering, Load Testing Different Algorithms. Simply going from 1 server to 2 servers in [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 3 – Cairngorm for ColdFusion Developers

Building Flex apps using Cairgorm

Why does Cairngorm seem so difficult? Tends to over explain the patterns in CG. Forget that and just focus on easily-repeatable approach. MATE is another potential Flex framework to check out.

DL from labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm. Add it to the Flex Project Build Path > Add SWC.

The FrontController determines where [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 3 – Prototyping Apps with Flex

WireFrame Viewer/Editor 5.0 from RIA Forge – Pretty good wireframing tool, but it requires Fusebox 5. Still though, this could be really big for us. We might want to try it out.

Styling vs. Skinning Flex apps. Styling will keep them looking like Flex apps. You can, however, completely skin Flex apps by using [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 2 – Building Apps for Multiple UIs

Matt Woodward

Domain Model is the most important. Use UML to think things through. Easier to change a diagram. Objects and Methods.

The database is not that important. It shouldn’t drive your application design. On the app side, think about objects, not tables, etc. Only worry about your DB once your domain model has [...]

CFObjective 2008 – Day 2 – PCI-DSS

labs.fusionlink.com pcianswers.com

Created by the major CC companies to protect CC info. pcisecuritystandards.org – actual doc is only 16 pages

PCI compliance is Pass/Fail – either you have it 100% or nothing.

Applies to any company that processes, transmits, or stored CC info. Web or brick and mortar. It is enforced by the merchant [...]