Yesterday, 21st of April, Ben Forta came to London to give a talk about ColdFusion 9 new features. It was really good session, Ben demoed all new major ones. Integration with Hibernate, new Adobe AIR ColdFusion services and of course brand new ColdFusion IDE codenamed Bolt (which does look pretty solid by the way) were [...]
There is a lot of buzz recently around Railo since version 3.1 finally went open source and many well known CF developers joined the project. This gave me the motivation to finally see how Railo really works. I decided to give it a shot on one of already running applications. The choice was made, I [...]
First, I have to say that I am big fan of Flex technology. I have worked a little bit with Flex 1, then 1.5 and now full time with Flex 2 and 3. I saw how the platform evolved, I saw Macromedia’s and Adobe’s enthusiasm when they have been announcing every new release. I am [...]
I have just finished MySQL on AIR project website. It is available here: http://mysqlonair.gruchalski.com/. No release download yet, not all information is there. It is just a first step. First release build should appear there withing next few days.
If it happens that you use Mosso Cloud Servers and its DNS management panel remember to always set different name for each record. Otherwise if you want to remove one of them, if there is another record with same name control panel with return an error. In such case the only way to fix your [...]
This appeared on Twitter about an hour ago, GitHub has an issue tracker now. Follow the link http://github.com/blog/411-github-issue-tracker to watch the video and read more about it.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]