http://www.usercore.com Matt MacDougall - attempting to grok users, management, marketing, linux, subversion, coldfusion, os x and web geekery Sun, 04 May 2008 14:46:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm new to Flex but still enjoyed the Mate framework presentation from Laura at asfusion.com.  I know that I need to think ahead of time how I'm going to organize all the events in my application.   This could simply be a design pattern.  The Mate framework has the idea of ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/05/04/mate-a-tag-based-event-driven-flex-framework/ cfvideo scenes I think the idea of a cfvideo tag would be a solid feature for the future. In particular I've wanted to be able to pull off something with streaming video like is done on ted.com. The overlay at the bottom of each video that shows scene markings ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/05/03/cfvideo-tag-for-cf9/ Here's some notes I took from the cfObjective community giving feature requests to the Adobe team for ColdFusion 9. This list is incomplete. Some requests were hard to catch and I came in a bit late. But here's a bunch that were talked about. I'm bolding ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/05/03/cf9-centaur-feature-requests/ Do you need to create an ANSI or OSHA compliant sign for your business.? St. Claire Inc. has a tool for you to build your sign and generate a PDF. Here's an important notice I have displayed in the lab. http://www.usercore.com/2008/04/29/ansi-osha-sign-goodness/ The word wrap and selection wrap support in Eclipse leaves a bit to be desired. The biggest problem for me is that I can't remember how to do even do it in a default install. I think there's something in the editor config but it's difficult to find ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/03/11/eclipse-monkey-hard-word-wrap-or-selection-wrap-in-eclipse/ In tuning a server I came across an interesting note in this MySQL Optimization presentation on the mysql site. If you run the client and MySQL server on the same machine, use sockets instead of TCP/IP when connecting to MySQL (this can give you up to a 7.5 % ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/02/04/improving-mysql-connections-in-coldfusion-administrator/ I'm at Flex Camp Chicago right now.  Bob Tierney from Adobe is giving a keynote, reviewing some internal proof of concept flex apps.  While Bob did not specifically mention this, he had an interesting New York Times article on his screen.  This article, Airlines Work on Systems to Reduce Delays ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/01/18/flex-camp-chicago-2008/ MacHeist's software bundle may or may not live up to all the hype it received over the past few months.  Either way, I do feel it's a good deal on software.  Pixelmator is an incredibly cool photo editing application.  It's hand down one of the most beautifully crafted software apps ... http://www.usercore.com/2008/01/14/macheist-cheap-os-x-software-bundle-2008/ Random post based on MacBreak ep. 70. Thanks to Merlin Mann for the title, this should make it into his mannerisms (pdf). If you're someone who would watch Darth Vader make hash browns, you'll love the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978. Holy smokes. This could very well ... http://www.usercore.com/2007/12/18/i-would-watch-darth-vader-make-hash-browns/ I've got CF8 running in single server mode on my MacBook. I also recently installed VMware Fusion for virtual machine support. Running virtual machines creates separate lan networks on your system which can raise some networking issues with things like vpn's and servers you may run that broadcast ... http://www.usercore.com/2007/12/05/coldfusion-8-jrun-interface-for-os-x-vmware-fusion/