A little bit of what interests me.

Description: I tried to get my code view working for my Twitter Pod but it seams there is a bug in Flex 3 that wont let me specify the code view source. Every time I change it Flexbuilder changes it back when it exports the release build. And here is the bug report at Adobe. It was already entered but I put my vote forward hopefully they fix it. bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-13194

Description: A new site has been launched to give examples and short tutorials on how Coldfusion and Flex communicate. Anyone can submit a tutorial and request specific examples. www.flexcf.com is the sister site to www.learncf.com

Description: Well the CF 8 install on leopard was working well the constant wifi drop outs I was experiencing were just not worth the price on the "newest and shiniest" OS. So today I wiped the old partition and reinstalled OSX 10.4. Ill follow the same steps as before on hopefully have my setup running again soon.

Description: Well MAX is definatly bigger then I initially thought. It was the biggest turn out at any MAX event topping 5000 attendees. The opening session was full of Flash and the recent Flash 10 release ( including many mentions of AIR 1.5 ) and even included a visit from Arnie’s wife Maria Shriver ( First Lady of California ). Strangely absent was any news of ColdFusion although Flash being Adobe ‘s best known product ( other then Acrobat ) its not surprising that’s what they focused on. I was almost sad as they talked about Flash on the iPhone ( as I just got a new Blackberry ) and while they say they don’t have it yet I highly doubt Adobe haven’t done there part and actually have it running on the device. I was impressed with the CF un-conference and got to meet, in person Ben Forta, Ray Camden, Sean Corfield and Brian Meloche. I finished the night with the Meet the CF team and the CMFL BoF’s which was great to meet the team and hear Ben give away some hint’s relating to CF9. Not really hints but anything cool he refused to answer I took as a hint ? It was great to hear Gert from Railo and other members of the committee discuss the standardisation of core cfml functions as choice gives freedom and I hope the 2 big open source CFML engines ( Railo and Open Blue Dragon ) can help promote cfml as a alternative to php. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow key notes with Ben regarding Centaur.

Description: I found this function very usefull just recently so I though I'd share. Description This is a simple UDF which does the exact opposite of CFMX's XmlFormat() function. Specifically, it replaces the following five characters in XML-escaped data with their normal equivalents: > with > < with < ' with ' " with " & with & http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=800 "This is a simple UDF which does the exact opposite of CFMX's XmlFormat() function. Specifically, it replaces the following five characters in XML-escaped data with their normal equivalents: > with > < with < ' with ' " with " & with &" http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=800

Description: I don't mind browsing an online forum now and then and I really liek to have a place I can go to ask questions. Mailing lists are great but often I tend to skip over alot of emails. So I did some searching and found the following Coldfusion forums....

Description: I write a lot of data-focused applications, a lot of grids, reports updates and inserts. It’s the usual stuff the business wants, Flex and Coldfusion work really well together for this sort of thing. We produce quite a few custom reports using the often unknown little gem that comes for free with cf Coldfusion Report Builder. It can be clunky but I doubt there is a quicker way to produce what we need. When all this is said and done and we are happy with what we have produced ( and so is the business of course ) they seem to inevitably come back with “This report is great, any chance I can get it in excel?” As per usual it was required ASAP. We already write out several reports into excel but each report is different and I was after a generic solution. I was directed to this article by Dale Fraser: http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?ObjectID=298 Which didn’t really work and had a few issues not surprising it was for Flex 1. Plus I felt that all the HTML was unnecessary and I was after a cleaner simpler solution. I didn’t want to restrict the use to IE either so the js was to go aswell. What I came up with was a solution that loops the datagrid columns ( hidden and seen ) and produces a tab separated block of text that will paste into excell perfectly separating the grid columns into nice excel columns. It even takes into consideration label functions. The accountants where happy and could now paste into excel with 1 click and manipulate the data in anyway they want. You can see an example of this where I grab the rss feed from fullasagoog and tidy it up a bit and put it in a grid. Let the grid load up, click copy, open excel, click in a cell and paste. It works on mac and windows ( I’ll assume linux my desktop is at home so I cant test ) in ie, safari and firefox. http://code.kukiel.net/dgc I also enabled code view.