Master Of The Internet

OMG - too freakin funny. The sad thing is, I remember it being like this. When people would find out that I made 'web sites' they were in awe, confused, or just dumbfounded.

Amazing Photos

Wow... that is all I can say about this guys photos, check them out.

http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography/laforet/laforet.html

Cute Music Video Based on a Mac

Flex Builder Tip of the Moment....

If you are using Flex Builder and you want to go back and forward between open files, you might use CTRL-TAB. This works well, unless you also happen to have CF files open. CF Eclipse doesn't use CTRL-TAB, which has been driving me nuts, until today.

CTRL-PgUp and CTRL-PgDn act just like CTRL-TAB, CTRL-SHIFT-TAB in both Flex Builder and CF Eclipse.

Knowing this has saved me a bunch of time... Just wish I would have found it sooner.

Holy Flaming F!

I just want to know why this pilot even tried this!

Zombie Apocalypse

42%

dove

I know that Dove is trying to advertise themselves here, but none the less, these are very powerful videos:

• Evolution
• Onslaught

As the father of a little girl, this is something that I worry about. Hopefully, at some point in the near future, we will stop letting corporate America tell us what beauty is...

Adobe's New Site

Adobe has redesigned their website. Wow. I'm very impressed with the seamless integration of Flash and AJAX. Adobe has often preached that Flash is AJAX, since you can access the entire DOM from the Flash player, and the Flash player via JavaScript. The new site really does prove the point.

The site also shows that Adobe practices what it preaches. I'm looking forward to exploring the new features. My favorite at the moment is the Flash On section.

projectId != projectid

Any ActionScript, JavaScript, Java, etc. programmer knows about case-sensitivity. The languages are very picky, thus projectId is not the same as projectid. However, ColdFusion and T-SQL aren't picky. SELECT is the same as select -- is the same as . After moving a demo from my local development environment to a staging server I discovered the hard way that Flex treats returned column names as case sensitive variables. When I created the view on the staging server, I made the mistake of not properly camel casing projectId. Hopefully, this is a mistake that I will not make often.

Big Gotta in Flex/AIR

So you have a datagrid in Flex (or AIR) and you got a nice little query that is delivered to the application via a ColdFusion CFC and in your Flex app, you've got a text field that triggers a filter function on the arraycollection. Nothing special, one of the first things that many CF developers learn how to do in Flex.

While I was working on a demo application the other day I built this out, just to discover that my filter functions weren't working. Stranger yet, the filter functions worked perfectly when datasource was a xml file with the same data. After hours or cursing, blog reading, etc., I figured out what the issue was. For whatever reason, when you have a query that uses GROUP BY Flex filter functions do not work. In the end I made a view out of the query and the filter functions work perfectly now.

Fun stuff.