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 [...]

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 [...]