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CFUnited! What a busy conference!

June 11, 2008 · 2 Comments

Next week, CFUnited DC gets on the way, and what a busy conference it will be! Having checked my schedule it looks like it will be a real marathon for me. Here is my schedule: Wed 1:30 - 2:30 : ColdSpring: Better living through configuration Wed 8:30pm - 9:30pm : Improving quality through code reviews and mentoring Thurs 9:30 - 10:30: Fresh Air: Getting to grips with Aptana and AIR applications Fri 9:45-10:45: CFEclipse Reloaded Fri 11:00 - 12:00: Jing Demo (5 mins) Fri 11:00 - 12:00: Railo Demo (10 mins) Sat 9:45-10:45: CFEclipse Reloaded Sat 2:45-3:45: ColdSpring: Better living through configuration You might ask what the Jing and Railo Demo's are about, well, you are just going to have to turn up and find out! :) Hope to see you all there!

2 CommentsTags: AIR · CFConferences · cfeclipse · cfunited · coldfusion · coldspring · frameworks · railo

Presentation: FreshAir @ Scotch on the Rocks 2008

June 08, 2008 · 1 Comment

For those of you who attended my FreshAir presentation at Scotch on the Rocks, firstly, an apology about the wireless. My presentation was going swimmingly until I hit a problem with the firewall that stopped "json" requests to twitter, which meant that you couldn't see the listing coming through! I have posted my code here for you to have a look at as well as the presentation itself so you can work your way through it. Let me know what you think! And I hope at least, problems notwithstanding, that you enjoyed the presentation and found it useful! Unzip the sample code and use Eclipse's/Aptana Studio's "Import... -> Existing Projects" feature to get it going. Attachments:

1 CommentTags: AIR · presentations · scotch on the rocks

Getting all Scotch'd up this week!

June 02, 2008 · No Comments

Tomorrow I shall be heading to Edinburgh for the fantastic Scotch on the Rocks conference. I know Andy Allan has been working really hard to get this conference going and last year's event was a real blast! This year I shall be presenting a couple of topics, ColdSpring: Better Living through Configuration and a new topic which is FreshAIR: Developing Adobe AIR applications using Aptana Studio. This makes a change to my usual CFEclipse presentations and I have been working hard on making them both informative and entertaining (no, no juggling... sorry!) I am really looking forward to meeting some old friends as well as new ones! So come and say hello!

No CommentsTags: AIR · CFConferences · coldfusion · coldspring · scotch on the rocks

My first Apollo Application: zoomBrowser

March 21, 2007 · 8 Comments

I had a little play this morning with Apollo and Flex, and I apologize to all you Flexers out there, I haven't as yet had the time to REALLY get into Flex, so all of this is really obvious to you all. Anyway, I made a little browser implementation, you can load a URL and browse as you normally would, but if you have bad eyesight (as I do at 6 am) its nice to be able to zoom into the web page, hence zoomBrowser! The code for this is really simple: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:ApolloApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" height="700" width="800">

<mx:Script>
   <![CDATA[
      private function loadURL():void{
         htmlBrowser.location = locationBar.text;
      }
   ]]>
</mx:Script>
   <mx:HTML id="htmlBrowser" right="10" left="10" bottom="30" top="40" scaleX="{zoomSlider.value}" scaleY="{zoomSlider.value}"/>
   <mx:HSlider id="zoomSlider" right="10" bottom="10" minimum="0.5" value="1" maximum="3" snapInterval="0.1" liveDragging="true"/>
   <mx:TextInput id="locationBar" text="http://" right="59" left="50" top="10" enter="loadURL()"/>
   <mx:Button label="Go" id="goButton" right="10" top="10" click="loadURL()"/>
   <mx:Label text="URL:" left="10" top="10"/>
   <mx:Label text="Zoom:" right="178" bottom="5"/>
   
</mx:ApolloApplication>
There are two functions, loadURL and zoomBrowser. LoadURL is called either when you press enter in the mx:TextInput field or when you click on the "Go" button. The mx:HTML item is simply bound to the slider and it resizes with the values. Amazing that you can build such a complicated app (if you think about it) with so few lines of code! Download and unzip and give it a whirl (you need to download the Apollo runtime from Adobe Labs)

8 CommentsTags: AIR · flex