I am presenting how to use ColdFusion, ColdSpring, and Flex together to the Kansas City Adobe RIA User Group on March 25, 2008. ColdSpring is a framework that helps developers manage the dependencies between ColdFusion Components (CFCs). ColdS
Introduction
ColdFusion makes it easy to display query results grouped by one of the query result columns on a web page. You just need to use the group attribute (1) of the cfoutput tag. Showing grouped data that was provided by a ColdFus
I was recently working on a Flex project where I wanted to use the LinkBar component (1). However, the data I needed to use that included the label values for the LinkBar's LinkButtons was in an XML file. As best I can tell, the LinkBar compone
The Yahoo! maps AS3 API provides a SearchMarker class that is used to display on the map an icon representing a LocalSearchItem class object. The LocalSearchItem class is used to store data contained in a result returned from searching the Yahoo
At the end of my previous post on the new Yahoo! maps AS3 API, I mentioned that I wanted to learn how to create my own custom Marker class so that I could display my own graphic and text on the map. After some playing around, I figured out how
I was excited to learn that Yahoo! released an ActionScript 3.0 API for their maps service. I've just started to play with the API, but it looks relatively easy to use. I do wish there was a bit more developer's documentation. Since even after s
Introduction
Mach-II is a ColdFusion framework that can help you build complex web applications. Recently, the Mach-II developers (see reference 1) released version 1.5. I had previously used the older version of Mach-II and also recently took
Introduction
In this part of our grade school ColdSpring primer, let's discuss providing default values that ColdSpring may use when creating the CFC objects it will manage for us. In the example code for this entry I've added a new CFC - UserG
Introduction:
One of the web applications I'm developing for the Kansas City Adobe User Group uses a Flex front end. The backend CFCs are managed by ColdSpring (see part 1 Naked ColdSpring). Since ColdSpring is managing the CFCs and their depe
Introduction
"ColdSpring is a framework for ColdFusion Components, inspired by the Spring Framework for Java, and its core focus is to manage the dependencies within your CFC "model." (2). ColdSpring has been around for several