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360Flex 10 awesome facts Flash Platform Shirt!

360Flex Conference — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:06:01 GMT

I’m not gonna write a bunch about this, because well there’s a video. So yeah that’s it. There’s three false facts. one per tweet with the hashtag #360flexfacts. First person to get each fact, gets a shirt! Oh and feel free to join in on the fun and make your own video with 360|Flex Facts, [...]

Update to my 911 Viewer

Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:16:45 GMT

Way back in January of this year I blogged about a little experiment I did parsing local traffic-related incidents in my home town. A local police department had posted their data in HTML and I used a combination of YQL and ColdFusion to parse it. Th... [More]

Code Model is going places

david zuckerman.com — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:26:14 GMT

I posted a while ago that I was working on the next-generation Flash/Flex compiler at Adobe. After�taking some time off, traveled a lot and moving half-way across the globe from San Francisco, I’ve started working again. �And then I remembered I had a blog! Perhaps the most exciting piece to report is that Code Model: [...]

What Languages/Tech are you using to stay current?

DopeJam - Flex — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:46:15 GMT

Your technical skills can never stay level, this is because whatever you know is always becoming obsolete as older technology becomes obsolete.

Within the CF realm, you want to be leveraging the new features of CF9, learning the available frameworks, etc...

But in this day and age, where technical skill is rapidly becoming a commodity, it's wise to have more than skill in your tool chest.

Lately I've been researching what the current trends are, and am curious to see what other technologies fellow ColdFusion developers have been scoping out ? even out of curiosity.

So I whipped up a quick 30 second survey ? let me know your thoughts, and spread the link. Take me to the survey.

I'll post the results in a few days.

Thanks!

links for 2010-09-02

Visual Rinse — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:06:47 GMT

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Call me old school - I like DW for CF

DopeJam - Flex — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:51:15 GMT

Call me old school, but still like Dreamweaver for writing ColdFusion code.

I think the efforts of the ColdFusion Builder team are fantastic, and CFB does have a lot of cool capabilities (ORM mapping, integrated debugger, etc...). As well, CFB being Eclipse based you enjoy access to the Eclipse ecosystem with all its plugins. So I know there are many many things DW can't do that CFB/Eclipse can.

Memory Usage & Smoothness
But for the day to day, coding is coding, and as that day progresses Eclipse uses much more memory (I often see 200MB+) compred to DW (75MB-100MB). Eclipse in general just doesn't feel smooth.

Auto-Prompting
I've tinkered with delay settings and what not in CFB, but the Eclipse/CFB auto-prompt/code-hinting does not work as well as DW's does. For example, if you type in property on a tag along with a value, and backspace the value to change - on DW it'll autoprompt immediately with the options, and CFB won't. On CFB you have to erase the entire property and start again. That's a feature in DW I really value a lot.

ColdFusion Builder:

Dreamweaver CS5:

Site wide searches
DW maintains an index on the files, so doing search throughout a large code base is 10X faster than CFB/Eclipse's.

So....
There are a couple of other things that are more debateable (e.g. managing files via FTP experience of DW vs. Eclipse, working with stylesheets, etc...). I do use CFB, but I'm not quite at a point to completely give up DW in favor of CFB.

360Flex 360Flex-a-palooza (minus 22nd Century)

360Flex Conference — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:16:01 GMT

In case you hadn’t heard, Duane ‘Chaos’ was taken super duper ill recently! As a result 22nd Century ain’t gonna be able to make it to DC :( 360|Flex-a-palooza is still on like Voltron, but just one awesome band fewer!! You can’t see this awesome one of a kind musical show anywhere else! No other [...]

Real Time Trader Desktop for Android Updated

Christophe Coenraets — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:11:09 GMT

I updated my Real Time Trader Desktop for Android sample application to work with the latest AIR for Android build (8/26/2010). To make it easier to find the latest version of the application, I also created a project page for the application where you will always be able to download the lastest build. That way [...]

Employee Directory for "AIR for Android" Updated

Christophe Coenraets — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:06:09 GMT

I updated my Employee Directory on AIR for Android sample application to work with the latest AIR for Android build (8/26/2010). To make it easier to find the latest version of the application, I also created a project page for the application where you will always be able to download the lastest build. That way [...]

Come to 360Flex and Win a Free MAX Pass

Digital Backcountry — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:21:17 GMT

360Flex in DC is coming up very, very soon. It’s arguably one of the best Flex events out there. MAX is also coming up shortly thereafter which is where you’ll be hearing about all kinds of cool Adobe goodness. What’s better than each one of those? Coming to both. So I’m running a contest. If [...]