Viewing by month: May 2007
200+ ColdFusion Open Source Projects
Posted on May 19, 2007
The ColdFusion Open-Source Project List has now surpassed the 200 project mark. To all the open-source developers out there, keep up the good work!
Illudium Code Generator Build 6 Available
Posted on May 18, 2007
I just finished posting a new version of the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator to the Google Code site. The newest feature is one I am excited about because even if it *sounds* simple, it wasn't that simple to build. You can now specify an absolute path for the save to file feature, but, more importantly, you can also open a file system browser to traverse through your local file system and choose the directory you want to save to.
Building a Directory Chooser with ColdFusion and Java
Posted on May 16, 2007
One of the major limitations on the current version of my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator is the implementation of the save to file feature. The issue I ran into when building this feature initially was that Flex, being that it lives in the browser, has the same form file input limitations as a standard HTML form file input. By this I mean that you can only choose a file since the input is intended for uploading a file from the client to the server. In my case I wanted you to be able to choose a directory where I would be exporting the generated files. One potential answer to this is Apollo, since it is no longer limited to the sandbox the browser lives in. However, I decided instead to begin writing the directory browser in code in ColdFusion that I could use to build a system directory browser in Flex.
The ColdFusion code required turned out to be an easy task because I was able to use the java.io.File object to get the information I needed. You may ask, why not use expandPath() and cfdirectory? Well, the answer is that 1) I wanted to get your root paths (i.e. on Windows, that might be something like C:/ and D:/) which I could not get directly though ColdFusion and 2) the java code worked very quickly. Here is the core of how it works...
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 14
Posted on May 15, 2007
This is the week to update your open-source project, didn't you get the memo? Oh well, plenty of people did with a total of 9 updates this week and 1 new project. Enjoy!
Scorpio Tour in Boston This Wednesday
Posted on May 14, 2007
This Wednesday, May 16, the Boston CFUG will be hosting the Scorpio tour at the Adobe offices in Newton (note: the site still says it will be Tim Buntel but I have been informed by Jason Delmore recently that it will be him). This should be a great meeting and we'll see what new features we are allowed to get the scoop on. There will be plenty of giveaways too. I am asking anyone interested in attending send an RSVP to me at brinaldi[at]remotesynthesis[dot]com. For the full details on time and location check the Boston CFUG site.