The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the enterprise applications that I developed using the ColdFusion MX 7.1 product suite. Currently I am the only ColdFusion developer on contract at the Ft. Stewart Department of Information Management (DOIM). Ft. Stewart, the lar

'Apollo,' the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop, will be the focus o

WebAssist - whose partners include Adobe, PayPal, Yahoo!, Google, and Affinity - today released the latest version, v3.0, of its best-selling SiteAssist program. SiteAssist 3.0 includes new professional-level designs that the company added, according to its President Eric Ott, in direc

The SystemManager is the main manager that controls the application window, creates and parents the Application instance, popups, cursors, manages the classes in the ApplicationDomain, and more. The SystemManager is the first class that is instantiated by Flash Player for your applicat

Adobe's new 'Apollo' product and strategy will be the focus of a session to be presented by Luis Polanco at the Real-World Flex Seminar, to be produced by SYS-CON Events at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on August 14. The Apollo session is just one of a diverse, comprehensive Flex pro

Austin has announced the selection of sixty finalists for the 16th Annual Flashforward Film Festival. Chosen from designers, animators, directors and artists in 15 categories, final awards will be announced at the festival, which takes place in Austin, TX on September 13 during the Fla

For those of who know of Flex 2, Adobe's tool for programmers to create Rich Internet Applications, it has this one feature that sets it apart from Flash, and incidentally, its brother Spry shares. It allows you to put a variable surrounded by curly brackets, and at runtime, anytime th

From the same company that brought you the most pervasive software in the history of the Internet, Flash(tm), comes another revolutionary solution to create even more power and intuitive user experiences. Adobe Flex 2 is a complete, powerful application development solution for creatin

Adobe's David Mendels and Christophe Coenraets, Allurent CTO Fumi Matsumoto, Flash guru Jesse Randall Warden, ESRI's Mansour Raad, Mark Piller of themidnightcoders.com, Dr. Victor Rasputnis of Farata Systems, SYS-CON's Yakov Fain - all are due to converge August 14 in New York City to

ZapThink released a report showing that demand for Rich Internet Applications and more sophisticated user interaction is increasing dramatically. RIAs provide an end user experience that combines the experience that users are most familiar with in desktop and client/server applications

I've lately seen a few posts on the Adobe forums and here on CMX about batch processing in Fireworks. Considering the Fireworks 8 Batch Processing utility had some noteworthy revisions, I thought it would be a good idea to go over the wizard in detail. Streamlined and enhanced file ren

SYS-CON Media announced today the promotion of Robyn Forma to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Robyn joined SYS-CON Media in 1998 in the advertising sales department while earning her degree in Business Administration. After a few short months, Robyn was promoted to advertising a

I've been building a bunch of custom AS3 components for clients lately, and have run across the need to use view states within an AS3 component.

Adobe Labs has released the first update to the Spry framework for AJAX. Spry v.1.0 was initially released in the beginning of May.

This month Darron's Diary looks at an Iterator implementation, at ECMAScript 4, and previews his own latest book. Because ActionScript is based on the ECMAScript standard, anything that happens in ECMAScript will almost certainly happen in ActionScript too. Not to mention, quite a few

Flexstore is a traditional Shopping Cart application. In this tutorial, we create two modules: The administration module is an internal application used to maintain the product database. You use the administration module to create, update, and delete products. The store module is a cus

lynda.com announces today its addition of Flex 2 Essential Training with Adobe-certified instructor David Gassner, to the lynda.com Online Training Library(TM). The training is delivered in QuickTime movie format, and is 4.5 hours long.

When ColdFusion was first released there was one main feature, more than any other feature, that made it very popular very fast: ColdFusion makes it ridiculously easy to create Web pages that can talk to databases and display database information. Now, almost 11 years later, this is st

I just got an e-mail from a recruiter of sorts. They want me to do phone Flex/Flash consultation for a 20-40 minute paid phone call. Apparently, Ether (www.ether.com) could make money if they employed some sales teams. It seems all of California is reaching out worldwide, looking for p

This article describes the differences between CVS and Subversion and explains how to install Subversion and migrate an existing CVS repository. It also describes how to configure Subversion in a Windows environment, explains a basic Subversion project structure, and introduces the mai

Developers are no different, yet I see 'improv developing' all the time. A project manager will just describe what's needed - the outlines of a plot - and let the developers work it out. The results are often what you'd see with a movie. However, designing an application with UML can a

The 'Real-World Flex' One-Day Seminar will delve deep into the central workings of Flex so that the seminar delegates can integrate this timely new technology into their applications, creating powerful interactive content. And CFDJ Editor-in-Chief Simon Horwith will lead one session de

Guido Bellomo has announced the release of wddxAjax v. 1.1. wddxAjax is a ColdFusion Custom Tag to enable AJAX on *.cfm templates. It was co-developed by Guido Bellomo and Stefano Vitta, of Bloggers.it. wddxAjax is fully compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

FusionReactor is a must for administrators and hosting companies who need to monitor their systems and recognize and act upon issues before they present critical danger to their runtime environments, the company says.

I've written a lot lately about the growing strength of the ColdFusion development community - shown by the onslaught of frameworks and the rapid adoption and support for these frameworks, the growing number of bloggers, new conferences and the great success of the CFUnited conference,

At SYS-CON Media's SOA Web Services Edge Conference in New York City, we had a chance to sit down with David Mendels, general manager of Adobe, to discuss Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, Flex, RIA, and more.

I've had a few days now to recover from and reflect on my experiences at this year's TODCon (a.k.a. 'The Other Dreamweaver Conference'), held this year in Orlando.

Depending on the scope of your project, you may have the opportunity for code reuse. The reasons you might want to do so are two-fold. First, you reduce duplication of efforts. If you have already created a hyperlink enabled CellRenderer for your DataGrid once, why do it again? Second,

SYS-CON publishing director Jeremy Geelan interviewed Adobe's Christophe Coenraets at the recent JavaOne 2006 Conference in San Francisco, noting that a 'tipping point' in the history of Flex has been reached with recent rapprochement between Java and Flex. Coenraets notes during the i

I'm planning to make several presentations on using Adobe Flex 2 with or without Java in New York and New Jersey this year. As the saying goes, 'If you want God to laugh, tell him about your plans', so let me put it this way: this is what I believe I'm going to be doing later this year

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas. MAX 2006 will give developers and designers a forum to network, share ideas, get hands-on technical training from certified experts, gain new skills and learn about new

Yes, Sun has been lost for the last few years. They don't seem to acknowledge that the Sparc/Solaris combo are falling into niche markets (not mainstream). On the other side, they are not making enough progress on software and service. Sun has quite a few strategic assets that they can

Adobe today launches Flex 2, with a free Adobe Flex 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) aimed at equipping developers to build a new class of rich Internet applications with improved usability and effectiveness.

The ColdFusion team also has a few exciting updates to share with developers. Adobe has created a deep level of integration and productivity tools for Flex and ColdFusion making it easy for ColdFusion developers to get started and become productive building Flex applications, the compa

Adobe Flex 2 has been released as planned. The first question is how much. The quick answer is better than expected, and here's the breakout. Flex 2 SDK, command line compilers and Flex Data Services Express (must run on a single-processor server), Flash Player 9, which is actually a v

Details of this year's MAX, for those who have been wondering, are that it is being held October 23 - 26, 2006, at the Venetian Resort Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Adobe will have over 90 different hands-on and workshop sessions presented by Adobe experts and other industry leaders on best pr

In late 2005 Adobe announced a goal at MAX 2005 of increasing the Flex development community from roughly five thousand then to over a million by around the year 2010. The bigger the community, the better is for developers; but how many are there? A new registry, http://www.flexcoders.

Though not listed either on the US Amazon site, nor on Barnes and Noble, the UK version of Amazon is this week already listing 'Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source' - the book that's due out August 31 from Jeff Tapper and his coauthors.

The learning curve for PB developers is not steep at all. You'll feel yourself at home there. You can find a plethora of training materials about this technology at Adobe's Web site (watch a couple of presentation videos there), the closest upcoming seminars on Flex will take place in

SYS-CON Events, Inc. (www .events.sys-con.com)annou nced today that the first event in the 'Real-World Flex'(www.flexseminar.com ) One-Day Seminar series will take place on August 14,2006, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Adobe Systems Inc. is theplatinum sponsor of this event, wi