TMZ.com has reported that Michael Jackson has died from cardiac arrest.  I know this is not a celebrity blog but this is a huge story.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/

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Last week Sean Corfield came to the Sacramento ColdFusion User Group (SacCFUG) and spoke to us about Railo.  The presentation was awesome so I thought I would give it a try.  I have allocated time this coming weekend to play around with it and see if it is the right fit for some future projects. Part 1 of this mini series will be a basic post about porting over this exact blog and seeing how many modifications are needed for the blog to be running properly.  Compatibility is a high priority for me so I figured this would be the first place to start since Railo claims to be Mango Blog tested.

I want to finish this up by saying that Railo will not be replacing ColdFusion in my world but will hopefully become a tool that I use for the right projects. ;)

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Once again my friend Nate over at 19nates created a nice video tutorial on doing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations using .NET and Flex 3.  Check it out when you get a chance and let me know what you think. 

http://19nates.com/2009/05/flex-3-video-tutorial-webservice-create-update-and-delete-crud/

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Here is a great article by Kunal Saini about performance tuning ColdFusion applications.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/coldfusion_performance.html

Kunal uses blogCFC as a test point for his performance suggestions.

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Poynt is an amazing free application provided to Blackberry users.  You can search local business, movie theaters, retailers and events etc.  You can even look at movie show times and buy your tickets through the application.  It is the most downloaded application on Blackberry App World and is a must.  Oh yeah I almost forgot.. If you phone supports GPS all of your searches are done by the location you are currently at!!!

http://www.mypoynt.com/

You can download off Blackberry App World or simple by going to the site and they will email your phone the link.  I highly recommend and would love to hear some feedback.

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There is a little bug in the AdvancedDataGridColumn formatter.  For whatever reason when you try to call the DataFormatter directly the year gets spit out incorrectly.  The work around is to use a label function that calls the exact same formatter.

The below code shows the code that will throw an incorrect format and the correct format.  I highlighted the 3 columns that are of importance.  The start date calls the labelFunction which correctly formats the date.  The end date uses the built in formatter which incorrectly displays the year and the hours worked uses the formatter to correctly format a number.  I included the hours worked just to show that it is only a date problem.

Hope this helps someone from banging head on the wall!

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Here is a quick example of how to sort an ArrayCollection using a TextInput.  This could be used in many different ways but I chose to use a datagrid example.  I would like to know another technique if someone has a good one to share.

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So I had a free night and I got a couple requests to update the shareMe Plugin.  In the admin you can now decide which share icons you want displayed at the end of the post.  I threw it together pretty quickly so let me know if you experience any problems or if you want any icons added.  The next update will hopefully include a way to order the icons.  If you have the new features of Mango 1.3 simple copy and paste the link into your admin and it will auto-update the previous version for you ;).

Mango 1.3 (Simple add URL in Add-on section of admin):

http://www.cftips.net/downloads/shareMe.zip

This plugin was originated from Mark Applet and his custom tag can be found here:

Mark Aplet ShareThis! custom tag: http://www.visual28.com/articles/share-this

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It is really easy to implement glow effects to your flex.  I am not a huge effect guy but these little guys are pretty cool in my mind and so easy to do.  Here is a basic example of how to bind the glow effect and also to fire a glow on an event.  Let me know if you have any tips for the glow effects.

PS.  That is myself with the old man (not my hat!) :)

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