Style guides are a nice way of maintaining good code, even ColdFusion has one laying around albeit a little neglected nowadays anyone interested in looking over it with me ?). Recently Google shared their Javascript coding guide which although is not earth shatteringly new it proves to be …
closure, developer resource, earth, google, javascript
If you follow me on Twitter you probably saw my tweets about a new secret project. Today I can finally reveal it to you. I actually started this project somewhere mid-June. It all started with working on a widget for the Cannes Lions festival. I realized that it was probably a good idea to start …
adobe max, adobemax, cannes lions, tweets, widget
A few days ago I was writing some code to generate reports. After the reports were generated, the reports were emailed, then deleted off the server. I made a mistake and deleted the contents of the directory. This was a bad thing because all of the .svn files were also deleted. I tried …
few days, mistake, subversion
Meet Modelplusmodel from 3DOcean! Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living? Den: At first, let me introduce ourselves. Modelplusmodel is in fact two people: Denis Tsybko aka Marty McFly and Victoria Polyakova aka Breeze. We are 25 years old and live in Russia. …
interviews, marketplaces, russia, victoria
IKS launched Cooklet platform described as a “culinary organizer”. I like the idea of having a multi-platform recipes solution. I remember I worked with Marco to a similar project for an Italian pasta brand ! I can imagine food brands could would be interested to such …
air mobile, desktop web, flash lite, flash lite applications, flash lite community, flash lite companies, flash mobile, flash web, mobile, mobile apps, mobile social networking, mobile web, nokia, open screen project, recipes
My wife’s Droid Incredible received the Froyo update notice today. Interestingly it mentions Flash Player in the update text. Here is some highlights from the text: “This Android™ 2.2 (Froyo) software update includes new enhancements to support Adobe" Flash" Player 10.1 …
adobe, android, enhancements, flash player, flex, improvements, software update, video recording
I'm very pleased to have been accepted as a speaker for Scotch on the Rocks 2011 ! Wow! What an incredible line up of speakers! It's going to be an awesome conference! SOTR 2008 was incredible so I was very sorry to have missed SOTR 2009 - due to my wife breaking her ankle! Schedule and finances …
coldfusion, preference, scotch on the rocks, six weeks, sotr, speakers
Volvió el evento online más importante de la comunidad Adobe en español: Adobe Hispano, que en esta oportunidad reúne a 20 conferencistas de 11 países diferentes durante 4 días, hablando sobre las distintas tecnologías que envuelve a Adobe. Este ciclo de conferencias es, como siempre, gratuito y …
adobe, conferencias, conferencistas, distintas, eventos
A couple weeks ago, I had the honor of doing a presentation for the Philly CFUG . The subject was about as dry as I could think to make it, but I think it went off pretty well. Being self-critical after listening to it, I have a pretty flat, monotonous voice, but otherwise, the content is good, …
couple weeks, presentation, software quality
Many developers have the idea that design patterns are "nice to haves," something that you can add after the fact, if you have time to waste making your code academically appealing for no added benefit. At some level, I think most of us know that design patterns are created by real …
actionscript, basic principle, blogs, class inheritance, composition, design elements, design patterns, developers, flash, flex, functionality, gang of four, glue, monsters, object composition, object oriented software, perception
If you didn’t know, every month on the Envato Marketplaces we pick one user to receive the Community Superstar award. Users who receive this badge have been observed being a repeatedly helpful member and constantly affecting the community in positive ways. The winner of the Community …
awards, community, forums, marketplaces, news, superstar, tuts
Artima.com has posted another article from my book Flex 4 Fun . Check out Effect Choreography in Flex 4 for an introduction to using composite effects in Flex 4 to create more complex animations. For anyone that's tired of seeing Flex content on my blog, you're in luck: this is probably the last …
animations, artima, blog, book, effects, flex, flex 4, fun, geeky, tad
To be filed with other posts about something I’ll have no need for until the day I really do comes this good short article on quickly setting up a virtual office system, in less than an hour even. Suggestions and links to help you in finding, hiring and training a virtual receptionist or …
It took me a long time to finally get round to it, but have updated the TWiT Live Desktop AIR application and released it as version 2.2. I’ve also gone ahead and made it open source under an MIT license, so feel free to check... Related posts: TWiT Live Desktop 2.0 now available TWiT …
actionscript, adobe, air, flex, long time, mit, open source, podcasts, video
Via SymbianTweet, there is a new update for the Nokia OVI Store client v1.08(6), just start the application. Alessandro
mobile, nokia, nokia ovi, nokia ovi store, nokia store, ovi, ovi store
Adding gesture support for your Flex apps is very easy. But it takes a little extra code to take the experience to the next level by adding a layer of physics to it. The example below is built for touch screens but will work with a mouse just as well. If you want to view [...]
apps, flex, flex 4, gesture, gestures, next level, physics, touch screens, user experience
Adobe está trabajando fuertemente en toda la plataforma Flash pero especialmente en Flex que para su nueva versión ya tiene nombre clave: Hero y viene cargado de mejoras para la arquitectura Spark. En el sitio oficial de Adobe Open Source define tres grandes objetivos para esta publicación …
adobe, el sitio, flex, hero, llama, open source, spark, ya
Apple mostró hoy iTunes Ping, una "red social de música" que debe tener a MySpace llorando, a Last.fm temblando y a Facebook mirándolos mal. Funciona similar a Twitter en cuanto a seguir y ser seguido. Viene integrada a iTunes y es el anuncio más raro e inesperado del día. En iTunes Ping estarán …
apple, facebook, ipad, iphone, ipod, itunes, myspace, ping, twitter
Typically, when we want to include an image in a web page, we use an IMG tag with a SRC value that points to a file located on the server (ex. my_image.jpg). Modern browsers, however, allow us to embed images directly in the page markup as Base64-encoded "data urls." For caching and performance …
coldfusion, image jpg, images, img tag, modern browsers, performance reasons, serialize, urls, web page
The Scotch on the Rocks team have unveiled the list of speakers who will be presenting at SOTR 2011 in Edinburgh on 3-4th March 2011. The list is incredibly impressive across the board, and these are just the names; just wait until we release the presentation topics! Check out the complete list …
adobe, coldfusion, complete list, edinburgh, events, fuzzy orange, list of speakers, scotch on the rocks, sotr
The jQuery 2010 Conference is coming to Boston October 16-17. Speakers are this years event include: John Resig Richard Worth Scott González Karl Swedberg Paul Irish Mike Hostetler Jonathon Sharp Doug Neiner This is THE event for jQuery madness each year. You can get all the details of the event …
boston conference, conference, javascript, jquery, karl swedberg, madness, news & events, peers, running
There is a lot you can do with jQuery in the mobile world. Below is a list of the tools I have used to build Web sites for the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android devices: jqTouch - the mother of mobile environments. You have to check out this open source solution for any mobile Web site you need to …
all sorts, android, apple, blogs, hd, iphone, iphone 4, ipod, javascript, jquery, mobile web, mobile world, open source solution, plugins, running
I created a little add-on for Flash Builder 4 which gives you a "Copy Fully Qualified Name" entry to the context menu in the MXML/AS3-Editors of Flash Builder. This is especially useful if you're creating new skin classes in Flex 4 and need to know t...
context menu, editors, flex, new skin, plugins
Alcatel-Lucent has acquired OpenPlug. “This acquisition extends Alcatel-Lucent’s push into Applications territory and complements its Developer Platform, Open API Service and Programmable Web offerings with ELIPS Studio – our tool that allows to develop cross-platform native …
acquisition, cross platform, flex, flex mobile, ipad, iphone, mobile apps, mobile devices, symbian, untitled
Ok, so this probably falls into the realm of "Obvious", but both myself and a reader were surprised by this. Credit for it goes to John Pansewicz. He pinged me earlier this week saying that ColdFusion 9's multi file uploader failed to work for him. N...
ajax, coldfusion, file uploader
If your computer is like mine you have a host of things installed: ColdFusion Database server Web server Version control server Mail server ???? By default I always set all these services to disabled so when I boot my computer I don’t have to wait 30 minutes for everything to start up. And …
30 minutes, code, database server, mail server, server web
The Nokia 2010 Calling All Innovators finalists have been announced Eco/Being Green category Green Plaza by Webdunia.com Pvt. Ltd. (India) RecycleME by John Paul Lozano (Singapore) TripSketch Green Traveler by TripSketch Corp. (United States) Entertainment category Angry Birds by Rovio, Ltd. …
birds, china, comics, finland, india, innovators, japan, mobile, nokia, productivity, singapore, traveler, united states
Google Rich Snippet Oli Studholme has an excellent new article on HTML5 Doctor on the different ways HTML5 can be extended with things like microformats, the link tag, and more. Why would you want to do this? While HTML5 has a bunch of semantic elements, including new ones like <article> …
different ways, element, front page, google, link tag, new article, snippet, tutorial
Today the Scotch on the Rocks Speakers list was release by Andy Allan and his motley crew . [More]
cfml, conference, scotch on the rocks, speakers, web development
With the topics not coming until later September/early October the speaker list for Scotch On The Rocks 2011 has been released scotch-on-the-rocks.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2010/9/1/SOTR2011-Speakers-Unleashed The 2010 conference was a great 2-day ColdFusion overload of information and networking …
blog, conferences, networking opportunities, scotch on the rocks, speakers
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