Running CFMX on an Intel Mac – Solved?

While I am not normally a big fan of reposting, I have had several comments on my information about running CFMX on the Intel Macs so I wanted to link over to Mark Andrachek’s site where he as posted CFMX on Intel Macs – The Definitive Guide which from what I hear covers everything you need to know to get it running. I also saw a post on the RedBalloons Lab site that offers some alternative ideas.

Thanks guys for your hard work on this for those of us without the time to do it!

MacBook Pro Whine/Buzz Fix May be Available

Looks like based on this Apple Support knowledgebase article that there may be a fix available for the MacBook whining and/or buzzing. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303365

I’ll probably call for mine just to see what they consider a problem and what they can do about it. I’ll post an update when I find out what’s up!

Flex & ColdFusion Beginner Tip #1

As promised, and perhaps quicker than promised, here is my first Flex with ColdFusion tip.

While it may seem a no-brainer to seasoned Flex-CF coders, this one stumped me as I was getting started so I wanted to post it here first. You may have seen some code like this:

<mx:RemoteObject
id="roRequestCfc"
destination="ColdFusion"
source="extensions.CF.requestGateway"
showBusyCursor="true"
result="requestReadAllResultHandler(event)"
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString, 'Error');">
</mx:RemoteObject>

The code above is great for calling one function on a CFC using something like roRequestCfc.readAllRequests(); and having it handled by a single result method, but you sure have boxed yourself in with this. I don’t know where I got this sample code, but I was totally stumped about how to call different functions and have them handled by different result methods which is something you would want to do most likely. Then I stumbled on this…

<mx:RemoteObject
id="roRequestCfc"
destination="ColdFusion"
source="extensions.CF.requestGateway"
showBusyCursor="true"
fault="Alert.show(event.fault.faultString, 'Error');">
<mx:method name="readAllRequests" result="requestReadAllResultHandler(event)" />
<mx:method name="saveRequest" result="requestSaveRequestResultHandler(event)" />
</mx:RemoteObject>

Note the <mx:method> tags and how each has its own result attribute. This makes a lot more sense. You still call the functions in the exact same way, but you results will be handled by different methods now. :)

Is this thing on?

Wow… it has been a really long time since I posted anything.  Well, I did have my son’s second birthday party and a whole lot of other events in the last month so sorry about that.  I have been working a little with Adobe Flex 2 (on top of ColdFusion) and I have a couple of helpful hint posts that I will try to get up here as soon as I can take a break and write them up.  Until then, I’ll do my best to start posting just some random comments from time to time.  I will try to stick to my number 2 rule for this blog and not repost other people’s blog posts.  When you have something to add, fine, but just to link to it with a three word sentence…not for me.

More later….