I just couldn't resist playing with all of the sexy AJAX tags and CFWindow. I couldn't. I can't play with new syntaxes and not the new tags. So I put aside working on side-dish proximity checking and instead worked on this beautiful screen:
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There is plenty of functionality in there that doesn't work, or works incorrectly. But the skeleton is there, and you can get an idea of where I'm headed with it. The code has been committed to the repository, but the demo has not been updated. So if you're eager to see it up close and personal, check it out! (Literally!)
I promise I will work on side dish proximity next, so that I can go ahead and call it an alpha release.
Promise.
Posted in
AJAX |
CFMenuCal |
My projects |
Scorpio
June 07 2007
Thank you for completing the Scorpio Participation Survey and for your interest in Scorpio Prerelease Program. After the Product Team reviews your responses, you will be notified with an email.
Sincerely,
- Adobe Prerelease Programs Team
When I completed this "survey" a week or two ago I was under the impression that I was too late in the game to get a shot at beta testing, but if I heard Mr. Adam Lehman correctly at the CFUG meeting, he was encouraging us to do just this, if we hadn't already. So, now the roller coaster that my hopes and dreams ride with every exciting opportunity that comes along is on its way back up another hill!
Posted in
ColdFusion |
Scorpio
May 16 2007
Of course there have been numerous blogs about features announced at other meetings (I liked this one, and this one, among many others) but tonight I attended our very own CFUG meeting, and not only that, it was my first.
Among all of the new tags and functionality announced, I think I'm most excited about the return of the debugger, the new image handling, the ability for CFLoop to natively parse files (by line, or by bytes), the server monitoring utilities, and of course the AJAX tags. I would have liked to have seen the debugger in action, but we were pushing 3 hours as it was with fairly few questions, and had to bail before they started drawing names to give away schwag (including a copy of Scorpio itself!), since my carpooling buddy was out passed his curfew.
The CFPDF tag set looks interesting and very useful, but my current clients don't do a whole lot with PDFs and my past clients only made limited use of PDF forms. I can see that it has great potential, but I don't see myself putting it to great use for a while.
One thing that this has reminded me of, for sure, is that I have become very comfortable inside my box. For the most part, the things that I've been developing could run just fine on CF5. (I blame the customer!) I have come away from the meeting inspired to learn some of the great things that MX7 made available, but at the same time, I feel like I'm already spoiled and have absolutely no motivation to try and learn AJAX "the hard way." Why should I bother, when I've seen how easy it will be in just a few short months?
I'm not sure how much of this has already been announced, but here's a list of stuff that caught my attention enough for me to write down:
- New Database drivers: SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, MySQL 4 & 5 (finally!), PostgreSQL 8, and more!
- Nested CFTransactions!
- <CFDBINFO> - Interrogate a database for its tables, procedures, views, etcetera.
- Even though there is a heavy (unofficial) lean towards Eclipse being the standard IDE, they are continuing to develop RDS, i.e. the new security features and user roles. Am I mistaken, or does Eclipse not work over RDS? Is this just an effort to support both, or some sort of unresolved confliction within the team?
Posted in
AJAX |
CFUG |
ColdFusion |
Scorpio
May 15 2007
I need to learn not to get so excited about tentative plans until they are more firm. As it turns out, my involvement with my current project is so "crucial" (in my boss' terms), and the schedule is so tight, that we can't afford the time off to send me to CFUnited, even though the location is right, the cost would be justified, and the content would be beneficial. I suppose there's always next year - and with any luck it'll be somewhere more exotic.
In the meantime, I'm looking for a conference to attend this fall instead; and I'll have to try to get my fill of Scorpio information from the May 15th presentation.
I've been working on the follow-up to my application.cfm tweaks post that I promised, but I am somewhat deterred until I find an adequate solution for posting code. Perhaps I'll just use codeShare and then update it later when I find a more permanent solution.
Posted in
CFUnited |
ColdFusion |
Scorpio
May 07 2007
