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Flex 3 Dashboard with DYNAMIC XML CHARTS
Yes, you read that right! After much searching and reading, I have FINALLY figured out how to get the pie and bar charts in the Flex 3 Dashboard working with dynamically generated XML fed from a CFC. It took a while and I’m pretty proud of myself for getting it done! It works like a [...]
CFMAIL redux using CFC’s and a ColdFusion Custom Tag, part 2
I know I said I would post the code for this, but I’m not sure that I can… it’s pretty much a custom instance for each time I need to send mail, and it’s not something that is easy enough for one particular posting. I can tell you that I am now able to shortcut [...]
CFMAIL redux using CFC’s and a ColdFusion Custom Tag
I’ve been working on a new project that will allow for a user to enter validation data before sending an email using CFMAIL. The main purpose of this is that the customer doesn’t want unsolicited email sent from the application without consent of the user. To do this, I put together a custom tag (cheekily [...]
Free Flex Builder 3 Professional… if you’re unemployed
How cool is this? Go here and solemnly swear that you’re currently jobless, and you’ll get a free copy of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional.
ColdFusion cfgridupdate
From my previous post - working with cfgrid can be fun, and easy… except for when I try to do things without reading the documentation first. One such example was taking what I did before with the onChange calling the ActionScript getURL method and posting variables to a page. Getting these pages in the URL [...]
ColdFusion 8 cfgrid getURL troubles…
Here’s something interesting I found out today while trying to get some code working. What I had was a cfgrid control, and I wanted to be able to access a URL using the onChange method of the cfgrid (or, whenever the cfgrid was clicked, a URL would load based on what was clicked - in [...]
ASDoc Index - styling Flash Forms for mortals
Take a look at this page for some goodness on how to style Flash Forms away from the ugly, generic templates they give us. I use the methods listed on this page regularly with all of my Flash Forms to great effect. I hope you do too, if you use Flash Forms generated by ColdFusion’s [...]
Setting up a new website with CPanel X
cPanel X: Setting up a new website with cPanel X
Most times, a new website will get set up by someone judging from price alone. What I mean by that is that the web designer is usually the person that registers the domain name, sets up the DNS, and secures server space somewhere for the web [...]
Fireworks MX Drop Down Menu Tutorial
Fireworks MX Drop Down Menu Tutorial
In the course of working at my new job, I have become fairly accustomed to Fireworks MX. I used to think that it was a far cry from the power of other graphics programs like Photoshop or Quark. It really isn’t. What I like most about Fireworks MX is simple [...]
JavaScript
JavaScript Overview
I love JavaScript. Seriously. I’m glad that it has finally come into it’s own as an integral part of AJAX, and Spry (for you ColdFusion users out there). There are lots of uses for JavaScript in real world web applications, for many reasons: it’s clean, neat (as neat as the programmer, anyway), fast, and [...]
New content, anyone?
Well, here’s how it’s going… I’m slowly and surely converting everything over from the old Brainstorm site that is worth keeping. Those of you that have been here a while know better than I do that there was a lot of stuff on the old Brainstorm site that won’t make it to this site. In [...]
Editing Google Maps using JavaScript
I just finished a rather tough piece of JavaScript for a new customer. Let me explain what they wanted… they had a map made from the Google API. I didn’t know it, but these maps are generated basically by a giant <script> dynamically. On this map, there were a number of companies that my customer [...]
Setting Up
Please bear with me while I get brainstorm-multimedia.com set up again! I promise, within a week or so, it will be better than ever AND have a lot more content on it.
I switched hosts away from my old place (I’ll never go there again), so now I am EXCLUSIVELY promoting my current host, HarborCityIT.com, for [...]