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Introduction to Coldfusion 9 ORM
DZone posted detailed article on starting with ORM on Coldfusion 9 - latest version of server-side engine from Adobe.
Posted by Rodion Bykov on May 11, 2010 at 2:20 AM - Categories: Links | Coldfusion
HP acquires Palm
Quite unexpected but pleasant news - HP deal with Palm. It's pleasant for Palm as company always balanced on the edge of abyss. Getting support from industry mammoth HP is, is guarantee of thriving. Despite of analytics excitement, I doubt webOS have chances in competition with Android. Clever move from HP of course is not to ceize support for Windows devices and release both webOS and Windows devices to market.
Posted by Rodion Bykov on April 29, 2010 at 2:46 AM - Categories: News
CFBuilder, Flash Builder 4 and Flex SDK are out
Adobe has released a bundle of 3 greatly awaited products today. Besides Coldfusion Builder and Flex Builder that may be purchased together, Adobe Flex 4 SDK build 14159 has become official release. Sixty day trial versions are also available for download, and don't miss special Coldfusion Meetup event devoted to CF Builder this Thursday.
Posted by Rodion Bykov on March 22, 2010 at 5:34 AM - Categories: News
Tabulating data in Flex 4
I had put together a small Flex 4 demo of tabular data display. There's not one or two options for doing this in Flex, I explored 4 and I think I can do more. You may output data:
- using DataGrid, AdvancedDataGrid, List;
- using Repeater and DataGroup;
- directly adding child elements to a visual Group
- make use of custom ItemRenderers that could have all mentioned above.
Posted by Rodion Bykov on March 16, 2010 at 2:05 PM - Categories: Flex
Emulate touch events to use with AIR 2.0 applications
As already known, AIR 2.0 that is currently in beta stage, is packed with new features, and one of this features is multi-touch events support. If you have multi-touch device and Windows 7, testing is pretty straightforward. What if you have no plans to put bucks into new multi-touch monitor and Windows 7 ?
Fortunately, for those guys like me still using Windows XP, touch emulator is released to beta. It's called SimTouch and can be tested within minutes. You'll ned just download SWC file and AIR application, then use SWC in your own Flex application. SimTouch AIR application is in fact a transparent window that is placed over your Flex application and translates mouse click events into XML that is consumed by your Flex application and translated into multi-touch event. SimTouch AIR application require AIR runtime 2.0 and should be installed and launched prior to building your Flex application.
Still SimTouch in beta, not supporting all touch events in AIR 2.0, but it definitely worth trying and watch future development.
Posted by Rodion Bykov on March 2, 2010 at 9:08 AM - Categories: AIR