Agent K on CF

CF7 playground

by kai 08/06/2005

I started my tiny CF7 playground after I found some time to put all this stuff online. If you have a look at http://mx7.bloginblack.de/cf7playground besides the CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF example you’ll find another “component” I built: A double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms (more about it in my next post…).

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A CF7 Flash forms double thumb slider

by kai 08/06/2005

I recently built a double thumb slider for CF 7 Flash forms. As there is no Flash forms CFSLIDER tag, I searched the web and found an implementation of an awesome slider, done by Nahuel and Laura of asfusion.com . But I needed a slider with two thumbs, so I took their code and extended/changed […]

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Eclipse RB Manager and FarCry 2.3 German localization

by kai 20/04/2005

I just played with the Eclipse ResourceBundle editor, a nice plugin to edit and update RB files of any kind. Today I just used it to create an updated version of the German ResourceBundle files for FarCry CMS 2.3. I’ve just submitted the files to Geoff and guess they’ll be in the CVS tree within […]

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CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF

by kai 17/04/2005

Finally I packed my code of the two related CFSELECTs into a more flexible and maintainable custom tag. Feel free to download it, play with it or extend it, basically do whatever you want with it 😉 Any comments, feedback, requests etc. very welcome. Here’s a zip file containing the customtag, a testpage and the […]

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ColdFusion Resource Bundles

by kai 17/04/2005

If you ever asked yourself how to internationalize or globalize your ColdFusion apps (i18n or g11n), have a look at Jason Sheedy’s ColdFusion Resource Bundle Manager. Resource Bundles are the defacto standard to fulfill those tasks in Java applications and FarCry makes use of RBs very intensively. Jason’s code is a great way to get […]

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ColdFusion position in Lisbon

by kai 15/04/2005

I was asked to spread the word about this: The EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction), one of the European Union?s decentralised agencies, is currently looking for a web developer with a strong experience in ColdFusion. The EMCDDA is based in Lisbon and from my very own experience I can assure you […]

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Getting rid of whitespace in CF

by kai 09/04/2005

Whitespace is always an issue with CF. Just today I got mad because I wanted to transfer some variables to Flash using the LoadVars object in Flash. Same issue is always upcoming if you deal with XML. Another issue in my CF 6 on Jrun 4 enterprise installation is that there is no way to […]

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Mysterious series of expired CF licenses ;)

by kai 30/03/2005

The first case of the mysterious license expiration happend about six week ago and was revealed by the genius of Detective Superintendant Dirk Eismann. He noticed that the ColdFusion 7 license of a very famous person in the Macromedia-sphere was just expired. Read more about this case in Dirk Eismanns online case files. Now it […]

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ACME Guide 1.1

by kai 08/03/2005

Via Sean Corfield… on Acid they released a very good and entertaining to read setup guide for a CF development environment consisting of CF 7, Apache, MySql and Eclipse.

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Dependent CFSELECTS using CF7’s Flashforms

by kai 08/03/2005

While playing with the Flashforms in CF 7 yesterday I nearly went mad as it didn’t work easily to have two CFSELECT controls, both published by a particular db query, in which the first allows to select the parent category and the second one displaying a particular set of entries related to the selection of […]

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