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On3 is adding a NEW! Adobe Flex course – we may be the first to offer it anywhere: Flex 3: Developing ColdFusion 8 Enabled Rich Internet Applications.
The training covers the Flex client, Eclipse & Flex builder, the Flash virtual machine & how the Flex application development process is designed. It covers Actionscript, how events [...]

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On3 has some excellent ColdFusion Classes scheduled during the next few months to celebrate the grand opening of our new headquarters and training center location on the 16th Street mall in Denver. The new address starting on August 1st will be: Denver Petroleum Building, 110 16th St, Ste 604, Denver, CO 80202. Please drop by [...]

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Okay, maybe I do already love the Adobe RIA tools, but… if I didn’t, I’d be smitten with their latest offer to the community.
Once again, Adobe is reaching out to the community by giving away free licenses to their RIA development tools. Free Flex Builder licenses to academia and to the unemployed. And now, free [...]

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One of my CFUnited sessions:
AIR: Building Desktop Applications with Flex 3 – http://cfunited.com/2009/topics/235
Here is a little Q&A about CFUnited and me.

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There is a new view that you can get from Adobe Labs that will add an RDS view to the eclipse IDE. It uses an updated version of ColdFusion MX, so it takes an update to your ColdFusion MX server before you add the plugin to eclipse.
The RDS view can be configured to point to [...]

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Creating FlashPaper documents on the fly is simple and easy once you have the right tools. The right tool is the FlashPaperConnect .dll. I found a version in Contribute. Read more to see how I used ColdFusion to generate FlashPaper documents on the fly.

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When teaching or consulting Flex, you will often be asked for examples of how to do “xyz”. Here are few links that will help.Flex and CF:
Integrate Flex with CF security
File Upload:
File Upload in Flex/Flash in Internet Explorer
File Upload Using Flex/Central/Java
Architecture Ideas:
Cairngorm and an associated Breezo that will help explain the design patterns.

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ColdFusion logs, when installed on JRun, can be modified so that you can separate out log information by log level. This will allow you to find log entries easily.

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Extra white space can be a problem for some in ColdFusion. If you are creating ColdFusion Components (CFC) or User Defined Functions (UDF) then there is an attribute to the CFFUNCTION tag that can help.
The OUTPUT Attribute: You should add the attribute output=”no” to the CFFUNCTION tags in your CFC/UDF when it is not rendering [...]

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Helping a friend the other day, I discovered some quirkiness in using CFForm in a hosted environment. Now, if you have not gotten used to using CFForm in a hosted environment already… here a little bit of advice.
Copy the entire CFIDE/scripts directory into your site. Second, add the scriptSrc attribute to the CFForm tag that [...]

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