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Upcoming Book: Learning ExtJS
I've been rather quiet for quite a while now. I have a rather large side project I've been working on, written entirely with an ExtJS front-end and ColdFusion on the back-end. I'm hoping to get that...
View ArticleHurdles For ColdFusion Hosting Providers
One thing that we, the ColdFusion community, have been hearing since the release of ColdFusion 8 is that hosting costs should come down. Adobe has been working hard to strike deals with hosting...
View ArticleColdFusion Query Json Custom Data Reader For ExtJS
Adobe's implementation of JSON return for ColdFusion is great, and frustrating. They use a non-standard return in that, instead of the expected name/value pairs, they return first a COLUMNS element,...
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Learning Ext JS Released, and Getting Press
It's been a busy week, with a flood of feedback coming in on the newly released Learning Ext JS. In fact, I've been so busy that I forgot to tell my own readers that it was released! Peter, Steve, and...
View ArticleReal Error Reporting from ColdFusion 8 Server
Totally stumpled on this by accident. I wrote a statement using the NumberFormat() function, and accidentally placed my mask before the value. Being backwards this threw an unexpected error, which not...
View ArticleExt Custom Data Reader for ColdFusion: More Info
I wrote an article for Packt, as a follow up to Learning Ext JS, and was surprised to find it's been on their site for a while now. The article is a follow up on Chapter 12 on Custom Data Readers in...
View ArticleDevelopment Ties
On the last day of CFUnited 2005, a group of us were out on the patio having a final drink together. I got into a conversation with Clark Valberg about linguistics. I was a translator in latter half...
View ArticleCF 8 and Ext: Presenting to Phoenix CFUG
March 25th, at 6:30pm MST (9:30 EDT, 8:30 CDT [Phoenix doesn't do Daylight Savings]), I will be presenting to the Phoenix ColdFusion User Group my presentation on ColdFusion 8 Ajax and Extension with...
View ArticleExt Conference: Day 1
Day 1 of the Ext JS Conference has been busy. Last night I had dinner and drinks with Jeff, a really nice guy who heads up development for a group writing web based interfaces to hardware appliances....
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Ext.Direct: Details on Data Marshalling
One of the core focuses, in the development of Ext JS 3.0, is the marshalling of data services under a centralized location. The intent is to make for a more portable application, where you can have a...
View ArticleCFQueryReader v1.1
A while back, Justin Carter contacted me about some updates he was making to the ColdExt, a wrapper for the Ext JS library for ColdFusion. He had been looking at my CFQueryReader, as a reader for...
View ArticlePlacement of the PagingToolbar on a Grid
This morning I found I was courtesy copied by Ray Camden, on a reply that he was making to a message he had received from his Blog Contact form from Mike Knox. Mike was trying to find out if it was...
View ArticleCFQueryReader v1.2 - Critical Update Supporting ExtJS 3.x
I have updated CFQueryReader, addressing issues that had arisen with new builds of ExtJs 3.x. This new build should cover sporadic issues with loading a new Ext.data.Store. There is also a simple...
View ArticleScope Usage and Application Scaling
Mike Brunt has posted an excellent article called Good Practices For Scaling ColdFusion Applications, in which he speaks about the importance of memory management within ColdFusion applications, and...
View ArticleRequest vs Variables - Which is right?
Last week I stirred the pot a bit, stating that we've been improperly using the VARIABLES scope, and it's hurting our applications. Variables placed within the VARIABLES scope do not appear to have...
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