Articles by Laura Arguello

Your First Adobe Flex Application with a ColdFusion Backend

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:30:00 EDT

Flex is a complete set of tools to develop rich Internet cross-platform applications based on the Flash platform. With Flex, you can create applications that not only have the 'wow factor' necessary to please clients and users alike, but the 'usability factor' necessary to make your application a real success.

How To Create a Photo Slide Show ...

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:45:00 EST

All applications, simple or complex, online or desktop, are composed of many elements: screens, forms, menus, etc. In a Rich Internet Application, those elements can also include video, audio, or images. From the programmer's standpoint, it would be great to be able to reuse those parts so that they can be incorporated into different places of the application, or in different applications, using the same component.

Completing The Real Estate Sample Application

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:00:00 EST

In Part 1 of this tutorial (CFDJ, Vol.7, issue 12), you built a search interface for the Real Estate sample application. In Part 2, you'll learn how to populate a form by binding the fields to a datagrid, and then edit, add, and remove records from the database. You will add functionality to the one-screen interface you started to build in Part 1 using ColdFusion and Flash Remoting.

The Real Estate Sample Application Using ColdFusion and Flash Forms

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:00:00 EST

With the release of Macromedia ColdFusion 7 and the arrival of Flash Forms, developers were presented with an alternative to HTML forms that offered them additional functionality, such as full-featured controls not available in HTML and built-in validation. That alone made Flash Forms appealing - and with the addition of pieces of ActionScript code, developers were able to create truly responsive forms. But because they were meant to be compatible with HTML forms, they still shared the same submit-refresh model. What if you could 'submit' the form and, without a page refresh, get feedback from the server?

ColdFusion "Real Estate Sample Application" (Part I)

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:45:00 EST

Constructing an Application with Flash Forms from the Ground Up

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:00:00 EDT

As you may know by now, ColdFusion 7 includes a new feature that lets us create forms in flash format. They work as a replacement for html forms, but give us some additional controls like the tree, grid, and calendar. Even if making a 'form' doesn't sound very appealing to you, once you start using this feature you will find that you can do much more than simple forms.