Adobe/ColdFusion News Brief: January 23, 2007

by Ryan Hartwich

ColdFusion Scorpio Beta is Open for Applicants

The official news from Adobe is that the Scorpio beta program is now taking applicants. Complete this link to submit your application. No time frame has been given for when applicants will be approved or when the beta will start.

Flex and Flash News and Content

Flex 2.01 (IDE) and Flash Player 9 for Linux is Released
One Solid Flex Release 2.01 (OnFlex.org, January 1, 2007)
Flex Download Page
Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux Now Available on Adobe.com

Flash Player Adoption Rates
The Flash Player auto-update function is turned on now and with last week's release of Flash Player 9 for Linux, the installed base should continue its rapid growth. December's survey numbers are expected soon and will probably show a greater than 50% user adoption of Flash Player 9 since last July. If you are using the ColdFusion Extensions for Flexbuilder, you should check out the following blog article. It explains a rather simple fix necessary to get the 2.0 extensions working in the Flex Builder 2.01 release.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2007/01/migrating_to_20.cfm

Flex Data Management Services Tutorial
Christophe Coenraets has written a 19-page tutorial describing how to set up and use the Flex Data Management Services. FDMS isn't intended for those just starting out with Flex, and hence, this tutorial won't be of much value to beginners.
http://coenraets.org/blog/2007/01/flex-data-management-services-tutorial/

Tools.Flex 2: Enabling Run Mode Trace in Flex Builder 2
The default Flex Builder settings show trace messages only in Debug Mode, but this blog entry will tell you how to make them visible all the time.
Tools.Flex 2: Enabling Run Mode Trace in Flex Builder 2

A Series of Blog Posts on ColdFusion and SQL

ColdFusion Debug SQL Explorer Extension
Sick of queryparam problems when debugging your SQL code in ColdFusion?
http://www.mischefamily.com/nathan/index.cfm/2007/1/4/ColdFusion-Debug-SQL-Explorer-Extension

Grouping ColdFusion Query Results on Multiple Columns
http://www.brucephillips.name/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/26/Grouping-ColdFusion-Query-Results-On-Multiple-Columns

Merging ColdFusion SQL Debugging and Query Params with JavaScript
This solution is similar to Bruce Phillips' solution, but it should work in your web browser and doesn't require using CFEclipse.
http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:459.view

Text String Searches
New tricks with searching text strings in a database. Ben Forta has 4-5 posts on this over two days (January 4th and 5th).
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=day&day=4&month=1&year=2007
http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=day&day=5&month=1&year=2007

Other ColdFusion Tips and Tricks

Daylight Savings Time in ColdFusion
The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 moves Daylight Savings Time observances from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November. This means you need to make some changes in your JVM... Read Damon's blog and find out what you need to do.
ColdFusion and U.S. Daylight Saving Time changes in 2007

Ben Nadel Experiments with the Interface Driven Architecture Methodology
Inspired by a New York ColdFusion User Group meeting, Ben has given us his experiences and the results of his experiments.
http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:445.view

Using CFINCLUDE
Does CFINCLUDE need a mapping? How exactly does it work? Jared Rypka-Hauer explains.
CFINCLUDE Works Without Mappings, OK?

Quick ColdFusion Debugging Switcher
Jake Munson has created a little on/off switch for ColdFusion Debugging.
Quick CF Debugging Switcher

Brian Rinaldi's Update on Recent Open-Source Projects
The number of active ColdFusion open-source projects may astonish you. Kudos to Brian Rinaldi for keeping us informed.
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 22

ColdFusion Community Toolbar

The first ColdFusion community toolbar has been released by House of Fusion and Epicenter Consulting. I'm not a fan of browser toolbars for two main reasons, screen real-estate and user tracking/spyware. This is the first toolbar that I willingly downloaded and am considering keeping because of the potential usefulness. However, I have a few minor gripes with it. It always remains visible (a sliding toolbar that self hides would be nice), even when the 'shrink' function is used. During installation, it was unclear what is being tracked when using the toolbar. I was happy to see, however, that this is partially explained by the 'Privacy' webpage linked to through the toolbar. The good news? The toolbar is prepopulated with five major ColdFusion-related podcasts, numerous blogs and the major ColdFusion blog aggregators and websites.

Download it at: http://www.houseoffusion.com/toolbar/

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