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#cfunited Notes – “Intro to jQuery”

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Javascript is NOT the enemy. You can find peace. Why jQuery? powerful, wide support, works for me (after initial period of grumpy old man whining) History 3 years old high compatibility free minified, gziped or full fat available on Google CDN What does it do? finds stuff changes stuff loads stuff and more stuff Signs [...]

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#cfunites Notes – “Advanced Custom Tags”

Saturday, August 15, 2009

What is a custom tags? CF custom tags are user created tags to extend the tag set written in CF executed on CF server used along side standards tags locally available Why use them? code reuse encapsulation abstraction simplification customized control flow packaging What about CFC? yes everything you can do everything in CFCs but [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Create a Public Facing API”

Friday, August 14, 2009

APIs – The Basics application programming interface 2 types – RESTful and RPC offers ability to share data and functionality centralize functionality Possible Problems poor planning can cause poor usability needs to be accessible across multiple langauges variable scope may not exist / be accurate documentation needs to be extensible security can be tested/attacked The [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Extending CFBuilder w/ CFML”

Friday, August 14, 2009

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/ What can extensions do? Anything CF can! •    written w/ CFML and XML •    runs on a CF server Common Uses •    code generation •    framework scaffolding •    server management / probes •    code analysis •    reporting Add New Context Menus •    RDS View (databasees and tables) •    Outline View •    Resource View (projects [...]

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#cfunited Notes – “Facebook applications with a CF Backend”

Friday, August 14, 2009

Workings of a Facebook App Facebook -> your website -> Facebook API -> your website -> Facebook They scan for “bad” stuff before displaying it. Good though because its all secure for you. Setup name your application (read the terms – good bathroom reading) make note of your API key and secret (needed for all [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Flex, CF, and LCDS Magic” – Nick Kwaitkowski

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Magic you say? 4 lines of code to get data from app server to clients CF –> Adobe CF 7+ works but 8+ has LCDS baked in. No Railo/BlueDragon/etc. LCDS –> middleware app designed to move data Flex –> 2.0.1+ Data –> any serializable data including DB, LDAP, email, FTP, mapping software, web services, etc. [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Building real time applications with Blaze DS/LCDS” – Dan Blackman

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The why?!? CF request/response applications Flex RIA persisted data is not refreshed automatically stateful approach to managing data – no more sessions refreshed through manual client interactions or AS Flex Real-time Apps persisted data is refreshed via interactions w/ server stateful approach w/ server side sync refreshed through polling, long polling, or RTMP data management [...]

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