Archive for August, 2007

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Adobe onAir Event

I’ll be leaving this evening for the Adobe onAir event in Atlanta. I’ll be there all day tomorrow. onAir is Adobe’s 18 stop bus tour where they code while on the bus, and stop in these cities and show off what they’ve done while on the road. It’s all about Apollo and Flex (Apollo is [...]

13Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Sunflowers!

(click the picture to see more sunflowers!)

Melissa and I don’t have a green thumb between us… so we were not very surprised with the fact that the only flowers that have survived on our property are the ones that germinated themselves and that nature alone has maintained in spite of our involvement. These sunflowers are [...]

13Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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M-Audio Keystation Pro 88

 
I’ve been thinking of getting back into music again. It’s been several years (read that as ‘decade’) since I’ve played piano. I’ve been playing around with B4-II by Native Instruments… which is a pretty cool Hammond B4 emulator. Anyhow… I’ve been looking around at the different options for Midi controllers, and the M-Audio Keystation Pro-88 [...]

11Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Jim’s Recommended Mac Applications

Seems there are a bunch of these lists online… but I figured I’d go ahead and have my own available. I’ve had this machine for about a week now, and I’m well on the way to filling up that 120 GB hard drive! Since my biggest concern with making the switch was that I [...]

11Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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New MacBook Pro!

 
Well folks… I finally broke down and made the switch! I’ve replaced my Dell Lattitude D800 with a refurb Apple MacBook Pro Intel Duo Core 2.33ghz with 2GB of ram and a 120GB HDD. Keep in mind that I’ve been using windows based machines since 1995. My initial experience with this machine has been [...]

11Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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Onkyo TXSR674 already broken!

This is the receiver I got about 3 months ago for my home theater. It’s actually a really nice sounding unit, and I’ve always enjoyed the simplicity of Onkyo equipment. The fact that it is not THX certified really does not hurt it because honestly the only reason it wasn’t certified is because of [...]

9Aug2007 | Jim | 4 comments | Continued
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remoteObject() and Cold Fusion

 
I’ve recently started using Adobe Flex, and so far I really love it. Since I’m unable to design my way out of a wet paper bag, having pretty little components available like the datagrid has made me very happy.
Today i’m going to talk about my new friend remoteObject(), and since I am primarily a ColdFusion [...]

1Aug2007 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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What the CRUD?!

CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete)
When interacting with any form of storage, these are the 4 basic methods that
you will use. Any time you are dealing with files, you will mostly only Create
a file, Retrieve a file, Update a file, or Delete a file. When dealing with
data, you will [...]

1Aug2007 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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Instantiating CFCs (Hello World!)

There are so many different ways to instantiate CFCs, that I decided that I would document them here for those who are interested.
Here is the helloWorld.cfc that we’ll be working with:

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<cfcomponent hint="Hello World Component">
<cffunction name="greet">
<cfreturn "Hello World!">
</cffunction>
 
<cffunction name="greetUser">
<cfargument name="name" default="">
<cfset greeting = "Hello #arguments.name#!">
 
<cfreturn greeting>
</cffunction>
 
<cffunction name="display">
<cfargument name="name" default="">
<cfset greeting = "Hello #arguments.name#!">
<cfoutput>#greeting#</cfoutput>
</cffunction>
 
</cfcomponent>

<cfinvoke> is [...]

1Aug2007 | Jim | 2 comments | Continued