Viewing by month: August 2005
Little Things ColdFusion Developers Forget When Working in Flash
Posted on Aug 24, 2005
Or at least I forget them. I have been pulled into a project that is data driven pages built completely in Flash because I know enough actionScript to be useful (this is the reason I have not been posting as much of late). It has reminded me that, when no one is asking me to make animations or design, I actually enjoy Flash (though I hate programming in the Flash IDE and FDT for Eclipse is too expensive for something I don't do regularly). However, here a couple of silly "gotchas" that got me this past week.
"Forecast Cloudy for Windows Vista" - Wired News
Posted on Aug 16, 2005
Wired news posted an interesting (though brief) article reviewing the beta 1 of Windows Vista. What they found wasn't particularly exciting. While Microsoft is claiming alot more will be added in the next beta release, Wired found the current beta included "a lot of attractive graphical interfaces and new search-engine functions, but, so far, not too much in the way of productivity or security enhancements."
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Updating Flash Form Multiple Selects Related
Posted on Aug 15, 2005
Just a quick post. I finally finished my Flash form project the other day, and what I needed was to update multiple related selects after data was loaded in via flash remoting. It was easy enough to pre-select the first select box, but I needed the related select box to populate before I could pre-select the selections in it. This took a 1 line of code:
Note, choosebrands is the name of the first select box, and I am broadcasting that I have made a change. After that, I could simply proceed with pre-selecting options in the related select box. I only used this on two related selects, but I assume the procedure would not be any different regardless of how many related selects were involved.
As always, to give credit where credit is due, this post is just filling in some implementation details where the heavy lifting was done by the folks at ASFusion.
Firefox Market Share Slips
Posted on Aug 15, 2005
Another interesting news tidbit was this PC World Article stating recent research by NetApplications.com that indicates that "Firefox's share shrunk to 8.07 percent from 8.71 percent in June, while IE grew its market slice to 87.20 percent in July from 86.56 percent last month." They didn't really offer any potential explanation other than to state that they were "surprised" and that they had expected Firefox's market share gains to slow rather than start to decline. Obviously, IE 7 is not yet a factor...so what gives? Just a blip?
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Midnight Coders adds AJAX, ColdFusion to RIA platform
Posted on Aug 15, 2005
I came across an InfoWorld article about a RIA platform called WebORB (previously FlashORB). The article discusses that the (apparently soon to be released) platform has added the ability to use AJAX in addition to Flash on the client side and has also added the ability to connect their platform to CFCs on the server side. One interesting item that caught my eye was that "WebORB Presentation Server is available in fee-based and free editions." In reading the sites licensing documentation, it claims that "the Standard Edition is free for most commercial uses" (although their explanation link is not working) and "does not have any technical limitations." The examples were interesting, though nothing that really wow-ed me. That being said, it might be worth examining once the new version is released...anyone have any experience with this product?