http://blog.crankybit.com Take a byte out of tech! Fri, 02 May 2008 21:35:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing Earth-shattering here. I've just come to appreciate how useful the memento design pattern can be to do web services a bit more efficiently sometimes. My web service is a facade CFC powered by objects being generated by Transfer and ColdSpring. So I conveniently have access to the objects' getMemento() or ... http://blog.crankybit.com/memento-pattern-is-great-for-web-services/ At work, someone made a request that required me to look through potentially hundreds of views in dozens of databases on our SQL Server. I certainly didn't want to examine each one at a time. How could I speed up this process with code? Well, you can find all of your views ... http://blog.crankybit.com/sql-to-retrieve-sql/ Note to self (the Flex newbie): Test your HTML wrapper for your SWF files to make sure that the user experience is a good one when you're setting up your Flex apps on your site! I took the HTML wrapper generated by Flex Builder and modified it to fit into ... http://blog.crankybit.com/flex-newbie-test-html-wrapper/ Tom Yager, writer of the Ahead of the Curve column in InfoWorld, wrote up a nice article about AIR entitled AIR gets rich apps right. Touting Adobe's credentials through their past record, he indicated that Adobe is a great candidate for accomplishing what AIR is intended to do: Get that ... http://blog.crankybit.com/tom-yager-praises-air/ I am fascinated to see the development that has been made in robotics to make robots fit either human or otherwise organic behavior. It is worth noting that it takes an exceptional amount of skill and engineering to simulate even the simplest intelligence or motor skills of living things; nevertheless, ... http://blog.crankybit.com/boston-dynamics-bigdog/ The following are my notes during the Adobe AIR Local Data Storage Options webinar that was presented during Adobe Developer Week. It was presented by Greg Hamer and the slides and demo code are already online. Before getting started, note how Microsoft and Adobe are taking two different approaches: Microsoft is ... http://blog.crankybit.com/notes-adobe-air-local-data-storage-options/ If you've tried calling ColdFusion CFCs with RemoteObject over SSL in your Flex apps, you probably feel my pain already, because you have either tried to get it working and gave up, or had a heck of a time getting it working. Adobe's documentation for this specific need wasn't helpful ... http://blog.crankybit.com/flex-remoting-over-ssl/ Recently at work, we in IT were puzzled when a fellow employee called to report that the iTunes Store would not load on iTunes for computers on our network. The problem occurred only on our network and was not Mac or Windows specific. Fiddler came to the rescue. Fiddler is a ... http://blog.crankybit.com/fiddler-and-barracuda/ Boy, 16 Sector is drawing this thing out longer than I'd hoped. They've got something up their sleeve for the few Apple II enthusiasts around us. Yes, a new piece of Apple II hardware will be coming our way very shortly. The cat's almost out of the bag! The good ol' ... http://blog.crankybit.com/16sector-riddles/ So, with Apple preparing to hold an iPhone Software Roadmap event this Thursday, people are eagerly anticipating news about how Apple will handle an SDK for the iPhone environment. Many developers were frustrated--and many web developers had our curiosities pleasantly piqued--when Apple initially announced that "software" would be available for the ... http://blog.crankybit.com/iphone-air/ With Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft strikes again and implements a new format for their Access database standard. I do not recommend using Microsoft Access databases for production applications. In fact, I believe you will pay, sooner or later, for adopting such a practice. Nevertheless, it is useful for testing or ... http://blog.crankybit.com/msaccess2007-and-cf8/ These are notes from the presentation by Tom Jordahl about BlazeDS. History lesson. Flex 1.0 introduced MXML. Originally built to be a server-based compiler. Flex 2.0 fine-tuned the product. ActionScript 3 was introduced, the Eclipse-based IDE was developed, and the server-side component was renamed Flex Data Services. That server-side product continued ... http://blog.crankybit.com/notes-blazeds-revealed/ These are notes of the prepared presentation for ShadoCMS on its website. Installing ShadoCMS. Same process on any platform. First step is to install CFMX 7, which actually is included in the price of ShadoCMS. Next, create a database (Oracle, MSSQL, or MySQL) and the DSN. Finally, deploy the site by ... http://blog.crankybit.com/notes-shadocms-prepared-presentation/ These are notes for a presentation on Savvy, the content management system, by Joshua Cyr. For setup, there is a cfm page that has numerous CFSETs that you have to set. After that, everything is basically good to go. It will create the database in the DSN you provide it, by ... http://blog.crankybit.com/notes-savvy-cfmeetup-presentation/ I couldn't understand why everything on my new iMac started creeping really slow. The last straw was when iTunes started skipping. I opened up the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder, set it to view "All Processes", and noticed that a process named "PrintJobMgr" was using a lot of processor ... http://blog.crankybit.com/printjobmgr-uses-99-cpu/ Time for another fun foray into Windows batch scripts. Perhaps you've used the FOR /F command to loop through the contents of a file (for instance, perhaps some data that was redirected to a text file from a command). Grab a line, act on its values, and output some text ... http://blog.crankybit.com/why-that-batch-for-loop-isnt-working/ These are notes from the Design Patterns and ColdFusion presentation by Sean Corfield on 12/13/07. Design patterns are basically common solutions to recurring problems. Using a pattern provides a common vocabulary between developers. If you say, "I'm using a Remote Facade", someone else will know what you're talking about without any ... http://blog.crankybit.com/designpatterns/ These are notes from John Paul Ashenfelter's presentation on 12/13/07 regarding pragmatic development. The entire discussion is done with open source tools and can be set up in an afternoon. Build it CRISP: Complete, Repeatable, Informative, Schedulable, Portable. Building is taking all the pieces and creating the final product. All source ... http://blog.crankybit.com/notes-pragmatic-development/ My Subversion/Trac server was at Trac v0.9.6 and Subversion v1.3.x because those were the latest stable releases when I set up the server. I decided it would be relatively quick and painless to at least get the latest version of Subversion (v1.4.5) installed since I didn't see anything on ... http://blog.crankybit.com/upgrading-subversion-requires-a-bindings-update-for-trac/ I was working with an app that would take an LDAP query from <cfldap> and do a bunch of processing against it. As it turns out, the LDAP query was targeted on an OU that wasn't grabbing all of the accounts it needed to process. There was a sibling OU ... http://blog.crankybit.com/union-in-qoq-made-an-enhancement-simpler/