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Eric Stevens On CFContent And Memory Usage In ColdFusion 8
This is just a minor note but a really powerful piece of information. Eric Stevens of the B And E Blog did some memory usage testing involving ColdFusion 8 and the CFContent tag and the findings are very cool: I just did a test in CF 8 using FusionReactor to watch memory while using <cfcontent type="application/x-zip-compressed" file="#ExpandPath('bigfile.zip')#"> Memory was at 141 ... Read More »
May 15, 2008 08:05 AM
Yet another CF 9 BOF post
On a cold and rainy night in May, 3 brave individuals from Adobe stood in front of the group of devoted ColdFusion coders ready to take feedback on the future direction of ColdFusion. There were several topics thrown out that ranged from viewing log...
May 15, 2008 06:11 AM
Using ColdFusion To Stream Files To The Client Without Loading The Entire File Into Memory
Just a really quick post here. In my previous post on creating semi-secure file downloads , Todd Rafferty brought up the idea that the reason we want to avoid CFContent is because it loads the entire file into memory before it flushes it to the browser. He made the point that the problem is not so much the tying up of threads via CFContent, but rather the fa ... Read More »
May 15, 2008 05:28 AM
Upcoming Events In Toronto And Washington
I'll be in Toronto on Thursday for Flex Camp, and in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the opening of WebManiacs. Registration is still open for both events.
May 15, 2008 04:40 AM
Model-Glue 3 - Example of Formats
Time for yet another quick Model-Glue 3 example. This time I wanted to show off formats. In the past, if you wanted to have multiple views of the same type of data, you had to build multiple events. So for example, one page may display a list of all ...
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May 15, 2008 02:16 AM
New ColdFusion 8 Book
Thanks to John Farrar for alerting me of this, but a new ColdFusion 8 book has been announced:
ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial
It covers CF 8.0.1 and is expected sometime in August.
May 15, 2008 12:01 AM
Creating Semi-Secure File Downloads Without Using CFContent
In the past, I have been asked several times how to create secure file downloads without tying up resources in the ColdFusion thread pool. Really, when you want to create a good, secure download, you would want to funnel the file requests through some sort of ColdFusion control logic and then stream a non-web-accessible file to the user via ColdFusion's CFContent tag. The problem with this is that the CFContent tag ties up a ColdFusion thread for the entire duration of the download. This wor .
May 14, 2008 10:49 PM
Flex on the Beach
It’s great news to hear that both Ben Stucki, Doug McCune, Mike Jones and I presume Nicolas Lierman will Flexing/AIRing at FOTB along with myself and no doubt a couple of others (keep your eyes on the session details for confirmation of Flex/AIR sessions).
It’s also the last day to get a ticket at the [...]
May 14, 2008 10:21 PM
Are You The Best of the Best?
Think you know Adobe web technologies? Do you like the idea of working on some of the world’s ...
May 14, 2008 10:19 PM
a "mostly" compliant java based email parser
if you've ever had to deal with email addresses you know it's sometimes a black black art to verify RFC-2822 compliance. ColdFusion's isValid() function is certainly handy for this but it's not 100% (actually i don't think anything is 100% RFC-2822 compliant, just have a read thru RFC-2822 to see what i mean).
well today on the javamail list someone announced The only more-or-less-2822-
May 14, 2008 10:18 PM
Itâ??s (A)live!
Finally launched the Samsung People site… have had to hold off posting until the client signed off. Checkout the transitioning background (perlin noise) and video flipping effect (image translation).
No, it’s not papervision.
You should definitely check out this guy
May 14, 2008 07:53 PM
Combining strings and variables to create new string
Considering how it's done in JavaScript (and probably other programing languages) one could beleive that something like this could be done:
Well that won't work, as you can only use + to add numbers together. The solution is simple, but maybe not obvious. You replace + with &
So this will work:
May 14, 2008 07:47 PM
Aspire UI Preview: Skinning
Yesterday, I showed two different skins in the preview demo. I post the demo here again for easy reference:
Both embeds above point to the same SWF, with the second one having a flashVars “theme” property set to “classic”.
In Aspire, component skins are [...]
May 14, 2008 07:42 PM
Fascinating Analysis
Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo provides a fascinating analysis on the history of Appalachia, and why Obama got shellacked tonight in the West Virginia primaries as well as previously suffering greatly in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Perspective complete with topographical infovis, and all.
Also, if you are a reader of my blog from a country [...]
May 14, 2008 07:40 PM
Snackr is everywhere!
Wow–nearly 600 people have downloaded Snackr in the last two days! Thanks to everyone who’s sent mail or posted comments; it’s great to know people like it. The most common requests so far seem to be:
Allow multiple selection in the feed list, so you can delete a bunch of feeds at once. It seems like [...]
May 14, 2008 07:39 PM
First Rate responds to blog spam issue
First Rate's COO, Kevin Francis, just contacted me about the blog spam I received recently from their company:
It recently came to my attention that a First Rate consultant had engaged in less than optimal link building. First Rate does not support sub optimal link building and the consultant in this case was acting outside of [...]
May 14, 2008 07:39 PM
FlashForward 2001 Video
Looking back at the video, there are lot of things that still hold up remarkably well in this day and age. A lot of really good work, most of the video is of the film festival and award presentations.
May 14, 2008 03:52 PM
Google Search Update
After converting to Google Search and giving Google a chance to get everything active, ads stared appearing on the results. That's part of the deal for getting free search, so they were expected, but after seeing them, I realized the layout wasn't too hot. With both my sidebar and the ads, the top couple search [...]
May 14, 2008 03:46 PM
Links for 2008-05-13 [del.icio.us]
FreshAIRApps: A Premier Adobe AIR App Directory - ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb on an AIR application directory.
May 14, 2008 03:43 PM
Things must change...
So, after the most unfortunate and untimely closing of my previous employer about a month ago, I've been spending a lot of time fretting about work. Not so much that I wouldn't be able to find something, but finding a job that had the same interest level, would push me out of my comfort zone (in good ways), and, hopefully, last for a long, long time.
Fortunately, before things officially shut down, my boss introduced me to one Mr. Jared Ficklin (here demonstrating a nice fire-based audio visua
May 14, 2008 01:37 PM
Latest FAQU Released with Apache Essentials Article
Way back in January I gave a sneak peek of an Apache article I had written for the Fusion Authority Quarterly. During the welcome reception of the Adobe Community Summit (last night) Terrance Ryan came up and said he had read (and enjoyed mind you) my article. Up until that moment I didn't even know it was released.
If you're interested in understanding Apache more I encourage you to check out my article. While you're at it, why not purchase a subscription to FAQU? It's an excellent m
May 14, 2008 12:46 PM
Please Welcome Rachel Luxemburg to Adobe
Last night, at the Adobe Community Summit welcome reception Rachel Luxemburg was introduced as the new user group manager for Developer Relations at Adobe. Rachel replaces Ed Sullivan who has been an amazing manager in this role for many years. Ed is a stalwart in the Adobe community and will continue working with the community in his new role in Developer Relations.
Rachel hails from New York City but currently lives in CA. She's an avid blogger and twitterer and has been a ColdFusio
May 14, 2008 12:46 PM
Updating AIR Drag & Drop examples for AIR 1.0
I’m giving a presentation tonight about drag & drop in Adobe AIR and noticed that a lot of the examples out there were made for beta versions of AIR and don’t work with AIR 1.0. For example, Christophe Coenraets provided some useful utility classes for working with XLS and Bitmap formats which you can read [...]
May 14, 2008 12:34 PM
Rauschenberg, RIP
One of my favorite artists has passed on. Robert Rauschenberg died Monday night of heart failure. He was 82 years old. His wit, incredible talent, and deep understanding of the conceptual art world are demonstrated (partially) in the clip below.
NYTimes article on Rauchenberg’s life and impact.
May 14, 2008 12:27 PM
Adobe Connect failure on the Mac - apologies to the Connecticut UG
So - if you tried to attend my presentation tonight, you saw it was a complete and utter failure. Whenever Connect opened, all I saw was a blank white screen. I connected to my PC via RDP, went to the meeting, and confirmed it was working fine there,...
May 14, 2008 08:39 AM
ismywebsiteok.com
You know those times when a client phones to say "i think my website is down, can you check for me?" and it turns out not to be a problem with their web  site, more a problem with their internet connection. Sound familiar?
ismywebsiteok.com is something i knocked up in 10 minutes to help in just [...]
May 14, 2008 05:22 AM
Learning Flex
After about two years of threatening to learn Flex I'm finally doing it. I started by completing the "Adobe Flex 2 Rich Internet Applications" DVD-ROM course from Total Training. I won this a while ago at a CFUG meeting and have been meaning to get to it ever since. I have to admit, I wasn't sure how I'd like the format given that I usually learn by reading a book on a particular topic then experimenting, but I liked the course. And I know what your thinking, "Flex 2?," but from what I
May 14, 2008 05:09 AM
Adobe AIR 1.0 TextArea Component Bug
Dave from twentysix passed this interesting bit of information to me upon reading my post Adobe AIR 1.0 hates the ComboBox Component. It seems that you will run upon a strange bug in the TextArea component when selecting text. For example… Create a new FLA and set the Publish Settings for AIR [...]
May 14, 2008 05:08 AM
eSeminar Q&A
RJ Jacquez, our Sr. Product Evangelist, has presented today's eseminar Interactivity in Virtual Classrooms where he showed Adobe Captivate, publishing to a Connect server, creating a curriculum, and using Adobe Captivate content in a live virtual classroom (our seminar presentation room). We had over 600 attendees so I helped out answering questions and received several requests to make the Q&A available (see below - participant's last names and redundant question
May 14, 2008 05:00 AM
ColdFusion Demos v. 2
took some time to clean up my demos and packaged them up into an archive. I’ve shared a lot of these before one-on-one so you may already have a CF8Demo.zip lying around. I’m considering this rev version 2. "These demos are hot. Hot like fire!"
May 14, 2008 04:59 AM
Adobe Feeds Update II
Just a quick note to let you know that I fixed the Adobe Feeds web services.
May 14, 2008 04:57 AM
Inexperience wanted
The company where I currently work : Blast Radius is currently looking for talented people to join our San Francisco office and work alongside me– specifically, killer CSS gurus, masters of hand-coded CSS and JavaScript, Flash/Actionscript programmers,...
May 14, 2008 04:56 AM
Playing with jQuery - ColdFusionBloggers.org Update
A while ago I built and released ColdFusionBloggers.org as a way to demonstrate and learn about new ColdFusion 8 Ajax technologies. Since then I've wanted to come back to the site and rebuild it using Spry or JQuery. Not because I wasn't happy with t...
May 14, 2008 04:33 AM
GTA IV Tip: Safely bypassing toll booths...
I haven't seen this tip anywhere (because maybe it's too obvious, I don't know) so I thought I'd share it. You can safely bypass paying your tolls driving straight through the middle gap between all the toll booths on a motorcycle. You need to be on a motorcycle, because it's the only vehicle that will fit. :) Sometimes I don't feel like outrunning the cops and don't like slowing down to pay the tool, so slipping between the booths saves me a lot of time (although I admittedly have been using t
May 14, 2008 02:44 AM
SparkTable: Visualize Easing Equations
Visualization plays an important role in my work. One example is the SparkTable tool I use to visualize and compare easing equations. Very useful when trying to choose between two similar eases, or when developing custom easing equations. It also demonstrates an interesting rendering bug in the Flash Player. You can download the SparkTable here.
May 14, 2008 02:44 AM
Nokia Music PC application Beta launched
Via AllAboutSymbian, Nokia Music PC application Beta launched. You can download it from Nokia Beta Labs.
Alessandro
May 14, 2008 02:44 AM
Air Apps on Lifehacker - freshAIRapps
One of the sites I hit daily is Lifehacker. Today I noticed a post about freshAIRapps a directory of
ratings and reviews of many new and new-to-AIR apps
It’s cool to see Air out in the wild and getting some good press! Check it out at: http://freshairapps.com/
Quick update: Appears the site is hosed due to traffic [...]
May 14, 2008 02:37 AM
Are You Sitting On The Fence Waiting For A CF IDE From Adobe?
I was checking out this CFUnited post on what people are looking forward to seeing at CFUnited. This comment from Marc Escher caught my eye:
Question: A recent hot topic?
Marc: One that doesn’t get much press but which is on the minds of many is whether Adobe’s going to come out with a CF IDE. [...]
May 14, 2008 02:37 AM
CFLunch Reminder - Friday @ Chili’s
Just a quick reminder - the Triangle area CFLunch for May is at Chili’s near The Streets of Southpoint Mall.
When: Friday, May 16th, 11:30am
For more information and to RSVP please visit the CFLunch.org site and leave a comment if you are planning on joining us!
You May Also Enjoy Reading:CFLunch Reminder - May, 16Triangle Area ColdFusion [...]
May 14, 2008 02:37 AM
Using ColdFusion to create an Encryption / Decryption Key from Plain Text
I have been doing work with Encrypting something in ColdFusion and decrypting it in ColdFusion. I've wrote about these experiments before. I've been trying to figure out the best way to create a key.
In ColdFusion I could easily use the GenerateSecretKey function. However, if I do that, how would I pass that key to Flex? It would have to be hard coded in some manner into the Flex Component that needed the encryption algorithm.
What I wanted was a way to generate the key on
May 14, 2008 02:33 AM
Hungry for some snacks?
Well I've got a treat for you! Snackr, an AIR app developed by Narciso Jaramillo who is a product designer for Flex and is working on Thermo also from what I have heard!
Anyway Snackr is a RSS ticker that just fits onto the side of your desktop in place you would like it (Top, Bottom, [...]
May 14, 2008 02:33 AM
PollEverywhere - Live SMS Voting for US Residents
Poll Everywhere is a hosted SMS voting system for US cellular phone customers. Everyone from a small blogger to a large corporation can sign up for an account and have Poll Everywhere host SMS vote contests. Pricing ranges from free to $370 per month, depending on the number of votes being cast and the number of votes allowed per month. I've created a sample poll and embedded it into my blog below.
This service is nearly identical to LiveVote.ca, which I've covered before on RIApedia. However,
May 14, 2008 02:32 AM
Timelapse CSS
Matthew Buchanan had a little fun and created a Timelapse CSS example that lets you walk through the process of how a browser would put together a page if it was a human artist:
When building website templates, Iâ??m constantly switching between a view of my CSS code and a view of the page Iâ??m working [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Whatâ??s in a window.name?
Sometimes it is interesting to see that knowledge from the 10,000 B.C. period of web development can be used in new ways to create - to play it safely - interesting ideas.
Each window in a browser has a name property which became pretty much useless when we stopped using pop-up windows and tried to [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
inputEx: JSON form builder
inputEx is "a javascript framework to build fields and forms" created by Eric Abouaf. The framework uses a JSON format to describe a form, such as:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
 
{
        "fields" : [
                {
                        "type" : "group",
  [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Snackr - Little Bits of RSS Goodness
NJ on the Thermo team has been working on a little AIR application called Snackr built with Flex that helps you keep track of your feeds. It’s a little ticker that runs at the bottom of your screen and then displays random RSS items from feeds you subscribe to. Instead of a traditional reader in [...]
May 14, 2008 02:30 AM
Adobe Community Summit 2008 - Day 1
Yesterday began rather early with a quick trip to the Nashville airport. After roughly 6 hours in the air (Nashville - LAX - SJC) I landed in San Jose and grabbed a cab to the San Jose Fairmont, a really nice hotel in the downtown area.
Walking into the lobby of the hotel I was greeted by several smiling faces, Dee Sadler, Jim Pickering, David Schmidt, Buck Sommerkamp, and more. After a dropping my bags off in the room and catching up with folks we headed to Cupertino to visit Apple's
May 14, 2008 02:26 AM
Papervision3D course in Toronton / June - link was broken
http://blog.papervision3d.org/2008/04/17/finally-50-student-discounts-on-last-2-pv3d-courses/
That’s the new link - apparently drupal decided to reset the links and renamed mine something like “http://richmediainstitute.com/08_make_mini_muffins_with_John_Grden” - which of course, is wrong
If you’re interested or know anyone that is, please let them know about this class. It’s a smaller venue this time and is being held at the FITC offices [...]
May 14, 2008 02:25 AM
What Do You Want Training On?
I've blogged about this a couple times, but I wanted to make one last post about this: I am supposed to be teaching a full day class on Model-Glue on Monday June 16th, two days before CFUnited 08 starts. Unfortunately, the original description of the class wasn't very good and the class is likely to be canceled due to lack of participation. While that's unfortunate, the room is already paid for and is at my disposal. This opens up opportunities for companies who want specialized training tai
May 13, 2008 02:57 PM
Ask a Jedi: Complete Spry CRUD Example
Walter asks:
I was wondering if you can help, I am trying to get my feet wet with Spry and CF, you have many blog posts that refer to this but I wanted to know if you can point me in (or have an example) of a : Add / List / Amend / Delete solu...
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May 14, 2008 12:14 AM
Are You Full As A Goog?
