Finding dates in a string using ColdFusion
A reader of mine had an interesting question. Is it possible to find all the dates in a string? In theory you could parse all the words and attempt to turn each into a date. You would need to check each word and a “reasonable” amount of …
Thoughts on developing for the Nook
The Nook (NookColor to be precise) is a pretty nice device. I reviewed it almost a year ago and since that time it’s grown more powerful with the support of an app marketplace. I’ve worked through the process of getting an app on their m…
Free multi screen mobile app – Magic Screen Pro
After working on this for a few hours more I decided to release it into the wild. It is available in the Android Marketplace as “Magic Screen Pro”. The application is basically a freehand drawing application that allows the user to select l…
Next presentation – ColdFusion and Solr
Just a quick note that my next presentation will be an online presentation covering Solr and ColdFusion 9. This is a introductory course, not a deep dive, but for folks looking to get into this feature for the first time, it should (I ho…
Flex Mobile Development: storing data locally
One way to improve the user experience for mobile applications is to save data locally. This technique is important for desktop applications and it is even more important for mobile applications (mostly because the network connection is expensive, slower, or intermittent).
When using applications such as mail or Twitter clients local storage enables users to see [...]
Highlander Advanced ColdFusion 9 Training In UK
Attention all UK ColdFusion developers. Highlander has been a partner for many years, and is also an Adobe Authorized Training Centre in the UK. Highlander is offering a 4 day Advanced ColdFusion 9 training course 9 in London on September 12t…
When in LA for Adobe MAX…
Would you believe it if I told you that MAX is now only 44 days away? Time certainly flies, doesn’t it? So ehm… Did you already get your tickets? Did you book your hotel? Your flights? Make plans to do tourist things? Oh… And if you’re speaking… is your presentation finished? Yikes… Presentation… Good idea… [...]
Flex Mobile Chat Session on Thursday
I’m a bit late to post this, but myself, and a bunch of other Adobe evangelists, will be holding a Flex Mobile Chat Session on Connect this Thursday at 9AM Pacific. It’s free and open to all so please stop by. See http://flex.org/ask/ for det…
What are your favorite iOS/Android apps?
I’m really curious to find out what your favorite iOS or Android apps are. If you don’t mind sharing your preferences with me and spending a couple of minutes on writing them down, please drop a comment. You’ll get my eternal gratitude!
PS. You can name as many as you want as long as you consider [...]
John Warnock on innovation
John Warnock is one of the founding fathers of Adobe. John is also the inventor of Postscript, and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors in the USA. John and Chuck Geschke also were recently awarded the Marconi Prize, considered the highest [...]
Flex Mobile Development: caching images using ContentCache
There are many places where you can optimize your code especially when working on mobile applications. In this post I will focus on caching images using the spak.core.ContentCache class (part of the Flex framework).
Right from the Flex documentation, you can see ContentCache could be useful:
Provides a caching and queuing image content loader suitable for using [...]
A Single Code Base, Lots of Devices
Here’s a quick teaser for a multi-part series I’m working on: 1 code base, 1 application framework, 4 platforms, 7 devices, 5 ecosystems… Yes, that is correct… 1 codebase, Adobe Flex 1 framework, Adobe AIR 4 platforms iOS Android BlackBerry desktop 7 devices (these are just devices I have): Mac OSX Apple iPhone 4 Apple [...]
LiveCycle ES3 is now released as ADEP, lists open for business!
I have been debating how to write this message for a while and finally decided to make a brain dump to this blog and on the Google list.As many of you know, Adobe has decided to retire the name LiveCycle for what would have constituted the ES3 release….
Application Report – ColdFusion Admin Extension example
I was having a discussion on a private list when David McGuigan came up with a very interesting idea. What he proposed is very cool and much more than what I’m going to demo here, but I thought a simple proof of concept might be of inter…
Muse available on Adobe Labs
Today we’ve released another new beta to Adobe Labs, Muse. What is Muse? To quote labs:
Muse (codename) enables designers to create websites as easily as creating a layout for print. Design and publish original HTML pages using the lat…
