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Flex and JSF have both been widely adopted by the Java Community. In many instances developers must choose between the two technologies. Today Exadel announced a new product called Fiji which alleviates this decision by providing a simple and seamless way to integrate Flex and JSF. This is very exci

I begin this story not as a long and protracted tale of woe, but as a warning to others that may tread upon these perilous shores. Argg ... I know what you're saying .. "I never had any trouble installing coldfusion 8" .. well neither had I up until this point. The story begins with me getting my sh

Looking at Google Analytics today I see that Chrome has accounted for 7.8% of my sites hits in the past month - that's not to bad for just a couple of days in the wild.Interestingly the version i have, 0.2.149.27, is not the latest version to hit my site (though it is the latest according to Chromes

I begin this story not as a long and protracted tale of woe, but as a warning to others that may tread upon these perilous shores. Argg ... I know what you're saying .. "I never had any trouble installing coldfusion 8" .. well neither had I up until this point. The story begins with me getting my sh

This evening I took the time to implement a new step on the new version of Tech Head Brothers authoring tool. Now I am able to write an article in Word 2007 and post it using Web Services. The next picture is the result of posting from Word 2007 on the web site using Web Services: Here is how i

Roger Ebert talks about how to read a movie. This all began for me in about 1969, when I started teaching a film class in the University of Chicago's Fine Arts program. I knew a Chicago film critic, teacher and booker named John West, who lived in a wondrous apartment filled with film prints, proje

Google has some great APIs for putting together mapping applications… but who wants to be bothered with having to read APIs? :) Now you can have a map mashup with hardly any work at all, with the new Map Rails Kit. Created by Jacques Crocker, this Rails Kit makes it so easy to quickly build

A church sign in Wisconsin makes an amazing admission that Favre is not, in fact, God. On a related note, I can’t wait for this NFL season. The Giants looked great last night – when I get a chance I’ll post some pictures from the game as well. It’s a little premature, and I’m not saying ei

My Groovy presentation next week for the PDX RIA will also be available online (via Connect) at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/r59025898/.  A recording will be available as well, but that URL isn't available until afterwards.  I'll post it after the meeting, along with my materials.

After my little discovery yesterday about the relative speed of XML to ColdFusion custom tags in regards to structured data collection, I decided to do a little more investigation into XML performance in ColdFusion 8. In the following demonstration, I am testing three different aspects of ColdFusi

I'm speaking this week at TechEd New Zealand, and TechEd Australia. As part of my talk, I show how Microsoft AJAX offers object oriented LIKE behavior. There are a ton of examples that I have build over the years on this subject, and the entire project is hosted on CodePlex.com/ScottCateAjax Side

One of the great things about the Flex platform is that you can get up and running with good-looking GUIs quickly. But what if you want to go beyond the built-in component capabilities and add some extra richness to your UI? What about animated effects to make your application more dynamic? This ses

From the BACFUG website: Image Manipulation in ColdFusion 8 - Seth Duffey 9/17/08 6:30 PM Adobe San Francisco - Kojak Connect URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/bacfug Seth Duffey will walk us through what's possible with and the dozens of image manipulation functions introduced in ColdFusion 8. Lo

The news broke today that Joost, the company which in a lot of ways was on the forefront of rich media, is canning its signature desktop client in favor of a purely web based portal. As a big proponent of desktop applications in general, and especially these hybrid applications which provide desktop

Are you a flex developer? Send me your resume. We need Freelancers and Full Timers. Preferably in the ChicagoLand area, but will consider remote developers for the right candidates. We have needs on several projects, so if you are a flex dev

After asking Chris to post his thoughts on the topic of Silverlight VS Flash from a .NET developer's standpoint, I wanted to post my thoughts from a Flash developer's perspective. I have been heavily involved in SL development over the...

Recently I had the pleasure to get interviewed by Peter Elst - it looks like you can read my babblings on aSH now.

Flex and JSF have both been widely adopted by the Java Community. In many instances developers must choose between the two technologies. Today Exadel announced a new product called Fiji which alleviates this decision by providing a simple and seamless way to integrate Flex and JSF. This is very exci

This month's issue of ComputerWorld contains a cover story titled: "Can Web 2.0 Save BI?".  SpatialKey is featured on the cover of the issue as part of the article!  The article goes into depth about how the Ogden Police Department is using Web 2.0 (SpatialKey Law Enforcement, in particular) to anal

Sony Ericsson released the Project Caphucin SDK with tutorials and more. To make the Project Capuchin SDK as accessible as possible to both Java and Flash Lite developers, the components are available for download as the following separate files: Tools Swf2Jar 1.1, Project Capuchin packaging too

While working with some ajax stuff this morning I can across an interesting issue. I have a dynamic form where fields could or could not be defined based on user action. So the function that processed the form was nimble in the fact that it could account for missing fields. Well, it was supposed