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How to Setup A ColdFusion Project in IntelliJ IDEA

I had recently put out a twitter request to see if there are any tutorials out there for setting up a simple ColdFusion project with IntelliJ IDEA and I got no response. I presumed there would be a specific routine for a ColdFusion project but it seems that there isn’t one and after having a [...]
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Accessing Remote Services Locally

Someone told me recently that they were fed up of uploading their Flex application swf to test its functionality. The reason they uploaded the swf to their remote server was to call the ColdFusion methods using RemoteObject. The process was similar to this: make change to code > publish swf > upload swf to server [...]
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Remote Delegate Class

If anyone has checked any of my PureMVC Flex examples that connect to a Remote Service (usually ColdFusion) they will notice I use a delegate class as the gateway to ColdFusion from all of my Proxies. I have recently noticed that most of my examples on line (typically named RemoteDelegate.as) usually pass an Object as [...]
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Dev Setup on Mac OSX

I have had some problems with my mac pro recently and also got myself a new mac book and to cut a long story short I have had to reformat/reinstall quite a few times. I had a small list of core installs/setup processes which I follow each time to get Eclipse, Flex, ColdFusion 8, PHP [...]
Posted in Eclipse, Flex, Mac OS X | Also tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Maintaining Nested Object Data Type from Remote Calls

* UPDATE * registerClassAlias() see below! This is tripping me out now. On our current project all responses from a remoting call to ColdFusion return custom Value Objects maintaining their data type fine, however, nested VO's do not maintain their data type and are returned as plain ol' Objects??? To over come this we create [...]
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ColdFusion Remoting problem with Flex Modules

I have recently adapted a new technique for my Modular application development in Flex using the MultiCore framework. This approach further segregates modules from the core, but I have noticed modules constructed with this much independence seems to present a couple of headaches. An odd issue I have stumbled across lately resulted in the following: [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, Flex, Modules, Multicore, Remoting, Tutorials | Also tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Flex, ColdFusion – RemoteObject HelloWorld Application

For a while now when I have a new ColdFusion Flex scenario set up and need to do a quick check on connectivity I use the cool app provided by Kyle Quevillon available here. Thing is over time I noticed more and more people hitting the a problem with the basic connectivity of Flex and [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, Flex, PureMVC, Remoting | Also tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

ColdFusion Query of Queries

I had a DataGrid in Flex which I wanted to display information from 3 different tables in my MySQL database using a ColdFusion query. First attempt I tried using Joins etc in MySQL to get all the data and had two problems (1) the column names in the tables were the same i.e. id, company_id, [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, MySQL | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

Wormhole for Connecting Flex and ColdFusion

I hear the whispers around the town muttering about problems handling communications between Flex and ColdFusion via RemoteObjects. Mutterings such as, is there a more efficient method to handle error reporting, message queing, authentication failures, authorisation failures, server availability, custom user interactions? The answer is in WormHole!!! Check this bad boy out, solution to your [...]
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CFDevCon 08

I am going to be speaking at this years CFDevCon down in Brighton which has a cool line up of speakers inc Aral, Peter Elst, Sean Corfield, etc. I shall be covering how to develop the Flex RIA application using ColdFusion and PureMVC that I built here. This is similar to the application I wrote [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, Flex, PureMVC, Tutorials | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment
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