Fullasagoog
Sun Apr 24 04:24:29 EDT 2011
Home: http://www.fullasagoog.com/
Feed: http://www.fullasagoog.com/xml/DreamweaverMX.xml

cf.Objective(): I'll be there, and I'll be busy with 4 sessions - I've gotten word from the folks running the cf.Objective() conference that besides the 2 talks I'm giving, they've also recently accepted my proposals for a BOF (birds of a feather) session and a slot in their lightning talk session. Phew! I'll be busy. Here are the details. First are …

More iOS Games from Terry Paton (video) - Terry Paton sent me a couple of more games built for the iPad so I recorded another video of them. This time I explain a little more about how they were created. But basically the performance improvements come from the great work done for the upcoming AIR 2.7 release. You cannot yet try it out [...]

As The Content Turns: Orbital�Content - There has been plenty of talk about online content curation as a way to make sense of the information overload by relying on people we trust to point us at items worthy of our attention. Cameron Koczon takes this notion a step or two further, toward “content shifting” where users …

Jamie Oliver's 20 Minute Meals for Android is Out Now - Just a quick post to say Zolmo’s latest application is now on the Android Market, and for a limited time at an introductory price. It was a genuine pleasure to work on this, I hope you have a lot of fun cooking great meals with it. Download Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals from the …

ColdFusion Quickie: Splitting data into columns - This is something I've done many times in the past, but I thought I'd whip up a quick example and share it. Imagine you have a set of data you need to display in columns. With a table it's trivial. You loop and simply begin a new TR every two cells. ... [More]

Maqetta to the Dojo Foundation - IBM recently announced the open source contribution of Maqetta to the Dojo Foundation. Maqetta provides WYSIWYG authoring of HTML5 user interfaces using drag/drop assembly, and supports both desktop and mobile user interfaces. Maqetta is said to target user experience designers working in teams …

Good example of a jQuery demo with two rewrites - Whenever I see something interesting, UX wise, I consider writing it myself with jQuery, just to see if I can. Last night I did this, posted the code, and got some great rewrites from other folks in the jQuery community. I thought it would be fun to ... [More]

cf-spreadsheet-taglib - Today I threw together a quick custom tag library for ColdFusion 9 which allows you to build Excel spreadsheets using syntax similar to HTML tables. Right now it is very basic but I plan to expand on it as needed. You can check it out on GitHub .

Scrollable and Touch-Friendly Flex Charts - After I posted Flex Charts on the iPad, a few people asked me how to enable some specific gestures on these charts to make them small screen-friendly. One specific question was: “How can we make a chart scrollable to show a lot of data on a smaller screen while making sure the vertical axis …

AIR on iOS Games From Terry Paton (video) - I have to say that I had basically given up on AIR for iOS a few months ago. Then out of nowhere the team had a breakthrough and it is now a technology that I truly believe in. It’s not perfect yet but the performance increases that have come tell me that this technology has [...]

Building Components from MX to Mobile: 360|Flex Session Results - I had the pleasure, once again, to attend the recent 360|Flex conference in Denver. 360Flex remains one of my favorite conferences. Flextras was a sponsor so I spent most of my time attending the booth and talking to people. My Presentation I also presented about building components, a …

Atlas Shrugged, Part I - The Movie - When I recently found out that they were making a movie version of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I was quite conflicted. I am a huge Ayn Rand fan and Atlas Shrugged (along with The Fountainhead ) is one of my favorite books. I was afraid that seeing the movie would for ...  Read More …

Write/Test Regular Expressions With�Rubular - I just love niche tools that do one thing very well, and Rubular is a great example of this, if you haven’t heard about it. There are many tools for building regular expressions, but Rubular is an easy to use, dynamic web-based Ruby regular expression editor that some say is the best way to …

Freebie Friday: Freebies from Tuts+ - Here are some freebies from around the Tuts+ network! Activetuts+ Exclusive Freebie: Ten Fab Filter Effects for Your Flash Textfields If you enjoyed Muhammed Abid’s tutorial on glassifying your text with Flash filters, you’ll love this Exclusive Freebie from frequent author Carlos Yanez. It’s a …

My cf.Objective() 2011 Schedule - Now that the online scheduler is available, I've been picking the sessions I'll be attending at cf.Objective() 2011 Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Room 1 - Keynote (TBD) 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM: Room 1 - Making Legacy Code Testable (Emily Christiansen) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Room 1 - ORM …

Creating Remote ColdFusion Component (Web Service) Proxies In Node.js - The other day, I blogged about using the ColdFusion Socket Gateway to communicate between a Node.js (V8) and a ColdFusion (J2EE) application on the same server. I had wanted to use Sockets so that I could use "localhost" and a port number without having to worry about different domain names. But …

Tales Of Revolution And A Sense Of Community - Today, I am shocked, elated, and deeply touched to find out that I have been selected to appear in Seth Godin's latest book, " Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People who are Poking the Box and Making a Difference ." This wonderful news is entirely due to the awesome Paul Carney - …

AS3-101: Game Development part 1 - This series has been taught to a few students over the last couple years with the intention of making it into a video tutorial series, but due to the lack of time and fear that it will never happen otherwise, we are going to have to do this old-school. The series was originally taught in Flex …

What is Customer Experience Management? - “Customer Experience (CX a.k.a CEM) is the sum of all experiences a customer has with a supplier of goods or services, over the lifecycle of their relationship. This covers several phases including awareness, discovery, attraction, interaction, transaction, use, service, cultivation and advocacy …

this.datasource versus this.ormsettings.datasource - This probably falls into the obvious category, but if you are using ORM and have code that sets the datasource in the ormsettings, it will not apply to basic cfquery calls. //Application.cfc this.ormEnabled=true; this.ormSettings.datasourc...

ColdFusion Lockdown Series - Multiple Partitions - One of the most frequent questions I get about the Adobe ColdFusion 9 Lockdown Whitepaper is: Why do you suggest using 3 partitions when installing ColdFusion? First lets get out of the way what the partitions are for: Operating System (typically the C:\ drive or partition) ColdFusion …

Daily Developer Journal – April 20th, 2011 - 9:51 am Still catching up an emails and random tasks that piled up during 360Flex. Finally got all the Away3D 101 examples posted. All 21 of them so far. 9:55...

My iPhone knows where I have b… - My iPhone knows where I have been! http://tinyurl.com/4ydxwss

iPhone tracking - So apparently Apple has been a tad naughty and been tracking where us iPhone and iPad 3G users roam. Two researchers have published these findings along with an app that overlays the data on an OpenStreetMap map. So this is me: I am disappointed that this is turned on by default, not so much for …

Script based version of CFWDDX - A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post talking about how to deal with things you couldn't do in ColdFusion scripting. As one of the examples I mentioned WDDX. For some reason I've seen multiple people in the last week or so bemoan the lack of suppo... [More]

Visualizing Cyclical Time – Hour of Day Charts - I’ve been mulling over a problem in my head for the past few days. How do you represent the hourly trends in data? More specifically, I’m talking about taking something like a whole year of crime records and showing the hourly trends of each type of crime, so you can see which crimes …

Using Positional URL Arguments When Invoking A ColdFusion Web Service - A couple of months ago, I was super excited to find out that you could use an ArgumentCollection URL parameter when invoking a ColdFusion web service . Yesterday, I took that excitement up a notch when I discovered that this same approach to ColdFusion web services works with positional …

Christophe Coenraets Demos Flex On iPad - Fellow Adobe evangelist Christophe Coenraets has posted two great examples of using Flex to build dashboard apps for iPad, one focused on charts and the other on multi-touch. And of course, as these are built in Flex, they'd also run on Android and R...

I am a fanatic of The Event! Help us get a season 2!!! - If you follow my Twitter stream , you probably already know that I'm a big fan of The Event . In fact, I haven't been tweeting about much else these days. No, I haven't lost my marbles... in fact, things are good these days. However, I am near-fanatical about this show and I want people …

Coming Soon: Patrik Larsson’s eBook “Marketing Tips & Trips, Second Edition” - If you enjoyed Patrik Larsson’s ebook “Marketing Tips & Tricks“, we have some great news for you. He’s been working hard on a significantly expanded second edition. He’ll be finished in a month or two. Patrik was kind enough to give us an in-depth interview about …