The phrase “AJAX” has been thrown around a lot with the Web 2.0 buzz, but what does it really mean?  Sure, it’s an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, but it’s much more than just that.  The ability to interact with HTTP via JavaScript has allowed developers to do some pretty cool things with the [...]

Well, it took a little while, but we’ve finally thrown together the topics for May’s meeting. Maxim Porges will be giving us a look at his cf.objective() 2008 presentation entitled “Flex – No Frameworks Required”. A summary of his talk can be found on the cf.objective() session list. May’s meeting will also [...]

So this presentation will be based off the foundation of the preceding talk, “The Mechanics of BlazeDS”. In last month’s presentation we went over how to integrate Flex with RESTful web services using HttpService. This month, we’re going to get into the details of using the RemoteObject class for RPC calls as well [...]

Adobe has been extremely busy with its most recent launch of Flex 3 and AIR 1.0, but a few months back, Adobe also released an open source rendition on its Livecycle Data Services (LCDS) product called BlazeDS. BlazeDS is a means by which we can enhance the capabilities of Flex (and by association, AIR) [...]

We all know that Flex provides an amazing framework for building stateful client side applications. However to make these applications truely powerful they need to be able to communicate with our applications that reside in the web. There are many ways to facilitate this communication, but the one we are going to focus on is [...]

Do you have bugs in your Flex code? Write better code! If you don’t think it is that simple you have probably come to the realization that you need some sort of testing framework to validate the quality of your code. Enter FlexUnit. If you use FlexUnit correctly you can ensure a certain [...]

For a quick and easy ColdFusion ORM, it’s hard to beat Reactor. The setup and syntax of it are easy to grasp, although more difficult to master. Reactor is based on the Active Record Pattern, a pattern recently popularized by Ruby on Rails. What does that mean exactly? Well it creates object that are used [...]

Transfer is a ColdFusion Object Relational Mapping library that was designed to make your life easier by automating and abstracting the maintenance and translation of your object-oriented applications to your data. It does this by generating CFC’s chock full of the kind of CRUD that developers usually hate to write. Aside from the promise of [...]

What is ColdBox?
ColdBox is a proven MVC, event-driven, CFC based, ColdFusion Framework specifically designed for high availability web applications. ColdBox is a solid software foundation on which you can build web applications. It provides you with a set of reusable code and tools that you can use to increase productivity; additionally, it provides a development [...]

Although still relatively new at Beta 2, Adobe AIR has been drawing a lot of attention from web developers. Air’s claim to fame is the ability to package up Flex, Flash, or regular HTML/JavaScript/CSS web applications and deploy them to the desktop. Like Adobe Flash, the Adobe Integrated Runtime will be the same regardless of [...]