So I am always on the lookout for new material to read in this world we call Web Development. More specifically I look for ColdFusion material and Flex material. I bit the bullet and bought Fusion Authority and Flex Authority and here is my short review.
I threw up a new forum. Gotta give a shout out to the ColdFusion Jedi Raymond Camden for giving the community the Galleon Forums. If you have any questions or comments about any topic feel free to message on the forum and I will respond as soon as i can. ;)
Here is the link http://cftips.net/forum/index.cfm and it can also be found in the header!
Getting a live scores feed is easy right? Wrong! The NFL and other major sports have a strong hand on preventing others from using "THEIR SCORES". What do I mean by their scores, well if I spend 5 minutes and input the games scores into my database, then they are "MY SCORES". This seems very trivial, but according to Stats.inc, the difference is thousands of dollars. So I set out on a journey to get a free feed to update my database, but this task of finding a free feed proved to be extremely difficult. However! I have found a solution!
Here is a link to a cool ColdFusion 9 review by the guys over at SitePoint.
You can now download the public beta ColdFusion 9 Builder here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_coldfusionbuilder
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.
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
If you have ever tried to return struct to Flex 3 from ColdFusion you may have run into this problem. If you use dot (.) notation to define your struct variable, the variable will get passed in UPPER CASE. This causes problems because Flex 3 and actionscript are case sensitive. Not knowing this little fact may cause you to bang your head on some walls.
You can use the arraySum, arrayMin, arrayAvg, arrayMax functions to quickly do calculations in an output query without using sql. Wish I knew of this tag along time ago. It would have eliminated some extras queries I have created.
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