October 31 2006 by
Andrew Powell
In the same vein as the Yahoo! Weather Sample, we now have the Yahoo! Finance Sample.
Yahoo! Finance Spry Sample
Posted in ColdFusion | Spry | AJAX | 
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October 30 2006 by
Andrew Powell
Yahoo!'s weather API is simply an RSS feed. RSS is simply XML. This makes it pretty easy for Spry to be able to deal with what's coming back. Spry has a bit of a hard time with somewhat un-flattened XML, so you have to be creative with your datasets and XPath to get the data to return correctly. As with the other examples, you have to use an application proxy to get the XML to Spry. This is due to security restrictions in the cross-domain rules. Some browsers will let you find a way around this, some won't.
Anyway, on to the sample....
Posted in ColdFusion | General | Spry | AJAX | 5 comments
October 30 2006 by
Andrew Powell
I've had quite a few people ask me to keep my samples in one easy to find place. I thought this blog was easy enough... Anyways, here is the site for all my Spry samples. I will add to it as I create more samples.
Andy's Spry Sample Gallery
Posted in General | Spry | AJAX | 2 comments
October 30 2006 by
Andrew Powell
Arguably one of the hottest features of CFMX 7 when it first came out over a year ago was Flash Forms. It offered Flex-like functionality within ColdFusion. I, myself, often call Flash Forms "Flex Lite". Flash Forms is actuallly Flex 1.02. A number of people instantly took to Flash Forms and extended them way beyond their boundaries. As Flex 2 starts to take root, is it time to ask ourselves a question. Are Flash Forms done?
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Posted in ColdFusion | Flex | Adobe | 6 comments
October 29 2006 by
Andrew Powell
I've always been a fan of Macs. Now with FB2 on OS X, I'm all set. Got back from Max on Friday and ordered my new MacBook Pro yesterday.
Processor 0656642 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 0656803 3GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM1x2GB,1x1GB
Hard Drive 0656624 160GB Serial ATA Drive@5400rpm
Optical Drive 0656625 SuperDrive 6X
Display 0656632 15 Glossy Widescreen Display
Modem 0656645 None
Apple Software Solutions 0656203 iWork '06 Preinstalled
This will go with my iMac and mini just well. I think maybe it's time to load OS X Server on the mini and see what I can do with CF on it.
Posted in Flex | Apple | General | Conferences | Adobe | 2 comments