Viewing by month: April 2007
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 30
Posted on Apr 30, 2007
Three new projects and several updates this week (including one significant new version release). Looking forward to seeing everyone at cf.Objective() later this week!
Simple Caching of RSS Content (Edge Article Follow Up)
Posted on Apr 27, 2007
As some of you may recall, I wrote an beginners article for the Adobe Edge that appeared about a month ago regarding how to use sites like Blogger, Flickr and del.icio.us to manage content for your site that you retrieve via RSS. As I state in the article, the caveat is that this can be slow since the RSS is retrieved via standard HTTP calls. I have received questions regarding how you could cache this content to improve performance, and I wanted to cover that quickly here (my advanced readers will probably find my discussion here overly simplistic, but the idea of the article was keeping it simple to introduce people to the power of ColdFusion).
The three methods of caching this data locally would be 1) in a persistent scope such as the application scope; 2) on disk (i.e. written into text files); 3) in a local database. Since it is probably the easiest to implement, I am going to show a simple caching system using the application scope here.
Using the Eclipse Web Services Explorer
Posted on Apr 24, 2007
Those of you familiar with DreamWeaver know that form many years (or at least since I last used it years ago) it had a very convenient wed services explorer that allowed you to easily view the methods and arguments of external web services. This can be an extremely useful feature, particularly when working with long and complicated web services (like the Confluence one I am working with). With a little help from Ryan Guill (yes, he is still alive), I located the Web Services Explorer in Eclipse which comes as part of the Web Tools Platform. You can find this under Run > Launch the Web Services Explorer. While it isn't as intuitive as the one built into Dreamweaver, it works well and very nicely allows you to test all the methods in your web service.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 23
Posted on Apr 23, 2007
Three new projects and eight updates this week, so I would call that a busy week, especially considering how antiquated the ColdFusion community is ;)
Further Thoughts on Apollo
Posted on Apr 20, 2007
I have been working through my feelings on the Apollo concept lately and, in fact, had a fairly lengthy discussion with Matt Woodward and Peter Farrell about it on the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast last week. I had toyed with Apollo some, but felt that perhaps I should get a little more informed before spouting opinions (yeah, you may say, like that has ever stopped you before...touché). So, I got a copy of Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers and dove in (which isn't much diving at just over 100 very small pages...I suppose it is more wading).