Archive: June 2005

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CFMX 7 Certified Developer Study Guide

by kai on 09/06/2005

Ben Forta just announced that the new release of his CF Certified Developer Study Guide book have been shipped. It should be a very good book and I can't stress it often enough: even if you don't intend to take the exam - get the book, it's a great source of compact CF knowledge to look things up etc. With the book Ben put a bunch of preparation questions online. There are 164 questions and you…

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A CF7 Flash forms double thumb slider

by kai on 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 it a bit. The result is available in my CF7 playground. This slider was (and still is...) a tough one,…

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CF7 playground

by kai on 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...).

New version of CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF

by kai on 08/06/2005

I created a new version of CF_TWOSELECTSRELATEDFF for ColdFusion MX 7 Flash forms. It includes some minor changes as a better support for using styles within the custom tag. It's available for download here.

URL for CF configuration Breezo

by kai on 06/06/2005

Here's the URL for Alex's presentation on CF configuration guidelines tomorrow: http://www.msg-webkonferenz.de/r93173610/.

By the way: This talk will be given in English and the slides will be in English as well. It starts at 4.00 pm German time on Jun 7, 2005, if you need to know the time at your place, use worldtimeserver to check it out (nice tool).

Awesome news: Macromedia joins Eclipse Foundation

by kai on 06/06/2005

This is great: Macromedia announced to join the Eclipse foundation and to create a "next-generation rich Internet application development tool," code-named Zorn, based on Eclipse. The full story including comments and citation of Kevin Lynch is available on news.com. As a first impression from my point of view: awesome news, this is the right move. Even if "Zorn" probably won't be available as…

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Breeze talk: ColdFusion configuration guidelines

by kai on 06/06/2005

Tomorrow (Jun, 7 at 4.00 pm German time), my colleague Alex Riemer will give a Breeze presentation on ColdFusion configuration guidelines. The topic will cover: Setting Up and configurating a ColdFusion MX Server in order to gain performance and stability can be quiet challenging. This session will cover known and foremost hidden falltraps and provide methods to avoid them. The session will also…

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MX Magazin: Sean Corfield on CF architecures

by kai on 01/06/2005

During MX Down Under 2005 I had the chance to interview Sean Corfield about his thoughts on CF architectures and frameworks. The interview has been published now by Germany's MX Magazin and is available as an online article.

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