Archive for April, 2009

Local function variables and parameters in ColdFusion and Railo

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Today I was doing some heavy refactoring on a project I am working for quite a long time. Moving methods, changing arguments, removing unnecessary CFCs. We are using PDF and XML merging so the project utilizes Adobe ColdFusion. Now, I am using Adobe CF for like 7 years now, I thought I know it well. [...]

AIR HTTPService does not return response headers

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Using Mosso Cloud Servers and Cloud Files for few days now I thought it would be useful to have AS3 library that would let me accessing my Cloud Files account directly from AIR. Just after spending last 2 hours writing prototype I came to the point when I wanted to read response headers that Cloud [...]

Safely storing configuration with passwords in Adobe AIR applications

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Almost every application designed to manipulate users data requires storing custom settings, often with passwords. MySQL on AIR is no different. One of the major features is saving connections settings locally. The most obvious way is to use XML but quickly an issue pops out – how to store passwords? XML is saved as open [...]

What is MySQL on AIR?

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

It is an Adobe AIR client for MySQL databases. About 3 months ago I moved to Ubuntu as my primary OS and the only thing I was missing was nice MySQL tool. I found few different projects, most obvious ones are MySQL Query Browser and phpMyAdmin, but there are always these small issues… MySQL Query [...]

New server, new blog, new appearance

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Welcome to my new blog. After some time I decided to change my ISP from 1&1 to mosso cloudserver (thanks John!) and I totally love it. It has been a long time since I blogged last, no archives left – I’m starting from scratch, no rants, no bitching, just constructive stuff. What I’m going to [...]