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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 14, 2008
Posted on Jul 14, 2008
Three new projects and five updates this week. I am pretty sick today so I will make this short. The big news this week was probably the MXUnit 1.0 release but it was a very busy week overall.
Continue Reading →Using Custom Tab Classes with the Flex TabBar
Posted on Jul 09, 2008
The Flex TabBar class offers a lot of built-in functionality but on occassion you may need to extend the underlying components. In my case, I needed to add a custom property to the underlying tabs within the TabBar. While it is obvious and straightforward to extend the TabBar class as you would any other class, it was not so obvious (at least to me) how to get access to extend the underlying tabs it creates. Here is how I was able (with a little help) to do it (be gentle, I am by no means a "Flexpert" yet).
Continue Reading →ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 7, 2008
Posted on Jul 07, 2008
Four new projects and three updates this week. I am writing this from hot and humid Miami. A fairly busy week considering the stateside holiday though something like 90% of the posts this week come from 3 sources I think.
Continue Reading →Turning TinyMCE On and Off On the Fly
Posted on Jul 02, 2008
WYSIWYG tools like TinyMCE are great and can make formatting HTML text areas a breeze. Nonetheless, they can also do some things that you occasionally don't want. For instance, TinyMCE often "cleans" your code in ways that you may not intend or want. to solve this, I recently added a feature to my Mango Blog installation that allows me to not only turn TinyMCE on and off, but also remembers my preference (on a field by field basis) when I return. Keep in mind that not only is this solution not Mango specific; it is not ColdFusion specific. In fact, it only takes a little JavaScript.
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