Nov 25
I found a nice little example of a Flex 3 Sparkline custom component over at 19Nates.com. He has an example and the source code available. It is a cool little component!
Entries for month: November 2008
Nov 24
Setting up and connecting a simple CSS file with Flex 3
CSS , Flex - Author:John Gag at 1:29 PM 3 Comments »I consider myself a developer with limited design skills. I decided this weekend that I wanted to change that by learning some simple design techniques for flex 3. After doing a little research I came across the Flex 3 Style Explorer that makes a developer like me very happy!
Nov 19
I have been making flex 3 dashboards for various manager and they seem to really like them. The problem that I am posed with now is that my company is run on Blackberry's and the managers want to be able to view the dashboards on their mobile devices. Here is some stuff that I found along the way and maybe it will help some other out that need to accomplish this task.
Nov 17
This is a must see for any flex 3 developer. Tour de flex pretty much shows off flex 3 capabilites and is a tool to show off some of your work. It even includes the source code, check it out!! http://flex.org/tour
Nov 14
ColdFusion Mango Blog Feed Plugin - feedMe
Mango Blog , ColdFusion - Author:John Gag at 10:34 PM No Comments »I am going to stay in this friday evening, (I had a late night last night), and decided to make my first Mango Blog plugin. I would like to state that I have zero experience making plugins. I decided to make a pod feed plugin. All the user needs to do is enter the feed URL, the title, and the number of items they would like to display.
I read the documentation on how to make a plugin, http://www.mangoblog.org/docs/documentation/extending-mango/creating-a-plugin, and then hacked away at it. Once I figured out the flow of the plugin process it became a lot easier to make. I do not know if anyone has interest in this idea or if anyone will ever use it but I will post a beta version very soon. I am currently running and testing it out right here on cftips! Let me know if you have any suggestions or comments. Oh yeah, I decided to call it feedMe ;)
You can download it here: http://www.cftips.net/post.cfm/feedme-plugin-for-mangoblog
Nov 12
Using ColdFusion CFMail to send Microsoft Outlook Appointment Request
CFMail , ColdFusion - Author:John Gag at 3:51 PM 21 Comments »I was asked to find a way to send a Microsoft Outlook Appointment Request email using ColdFusion cfmail tag. I was very much in luck with ColdFusion 8. Below is cfmail code I found that produces the outlook meeting request.
Nov 10
Encryption and Importance of Security in ColdFusion
Encrypt() / Decrypt() , ColdFusion - Author:John Gag at 2:04 PM 8 Comments »With the push of some of our web application to an external production server, security has become an important part of all applications. Everyone knows of <cfqueryparam> and that has been blogged about more than enough times. What about other techniques of security including the coldfusion functions encrypt and decrypt?
Nov 6
Unique Random Number using ColdFusion Function RAND()
ColdFusion - Author:Joel Hill at 12:37 PM 2 Comments »I've been playing with the RAND() function, trying to generate a unique random number so that I can use that random number as a sort of key to send the user to confirm that their email address.
<!--- Create a Random number to be used as email verification --->
<!--- Assign the current date and time to a variable. --->
<cfset tdstamp="#DateFormat(Now(),'mmddyyyy')##TimeFormat(Now(),'hhmmss')#">
<!--- Create a random number. --->
<cfset randomnum1=RAND()*100000000>
<!--- Create another random number. --->
<cfset randomnum2=RAND()*100000000>
<!--- Concatenate the first random number, the time and date stamp, and the second random number. --->
<cfset uniquenumber="#randomnum1##tdstamp##randomnum2#">
Nov 5
Simple T-SQL to copy table from one database to another
T-SQL , SQL Server - Author:John Gag at 7:21 PM 7 Comments »Just when you feel you have learned all the basics you come across something so simple. Copy a table and its contents from one database to another is as simple as the code below:
| SELECT * INTO database2.dbo.tblTest FROM database1.dbo.tblTest |
Note that this is done on the same sql server and that it does not copy indexes. Anything else I should know?
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