A blog for ColdFusion, Java, and other topics. http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm <p>Utah State Senator and Ogden City Police Chief <a href="http://senatesite.com/blog/2008/09/keeping-citizens-safe.html">blogs about Spatialkey</a> and the power of bringing together relevant data sets from multiple places. Here is a small sampling... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1115 2008-09-08T07:41:49-07:00 Flex,General Web Dev,Other,SpatialKey <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonpurcell/2839200339/" title="SpatialKey_ComputerWorld.jpg by brandonpurcell, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/2839200339_cd4d3f6db9_m.jpg" width="178" height="240" alt="SpatialKey_Co... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1114 2008-09-08T07:26:55-07:00 Flex,General Web Dev,Other <div class="body"><p>After leaving Adobe in November of 2007 I joined Universal Mind as the director of Technology. UM had been working on a product that was called LaunchPad. At that time LaunchPad was a proof of concept built for the San Francisco... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1112 2008-09-01T19:53:19-07:00 Flex,SpatialKey After installing Flex 2.0.1 I was frustrated to find that I was no longer getting output to my flashlog.txt files. After some searching around I found that it was moved to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\Lo... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1091 2007-01-11T20:29:50-07:00 Flex <P>I was creating a simple application to enter IP addresses into a database and I found there was no simple way to validate the IP addresses. With Flex it is fairly simple to create a custom validator. The code below uses a regular expression to val... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1090 2007-01-07T17:55:27-07:00 Flex <P>I found this pretty cool and a great demonstration of the new power with FlashPlayer 8.5. <!--StartFragment -->FlashVNC is a Flash Player based client that connects to a TightVNC server. Check it out on <A class="" href="http://www.darronschall.co... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1071 2005-11-17T17:54:08-07:00 Flex In working with Flex and Flash I have used the crossdomain.xml several times. For someone new to Flex or Flash it is somewhat difficult to explain why it is needed. I end up drawing pictures and probably confuse the developer even more.&nbsp; <A clas... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1061 2005-07-29T08:27:24-07:00 Flex <P>If you run a Flex or Flash application on Linux in Firefox or Mozilla you may see the application only render partially and the rest of the screen shows up gray or black.&nbsp; This is a known issue with the Flash Player.&nbsp; You can find some i... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1058 2005-05-25T13:18:37-07:00 Flex <P>Christophe demonstrates a very cool approach for integrating HTML pages/sites into an app that is 100% Flex and it makes the application look like the Flash Player is loading/rendering the HTML in the page. </P> <P>You can check out his blog post... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1057 2005-05-19T07:56:46-07:00 Flex <P>Over the last few months I have blogged very little due to time constraints, travel and vacation. I have been working on the Flex team for about a year and a half now and still continue to do ColdFusion development anytime a chance arises. I have ... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1055 2005-04-29T10:28:58-07:00 ColdFusionMX,Flex <P>I have heard this question many times and I don't think it is documented. If you want to change the color of an entire row within a Datagrid in Flex use the following code</P> <DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px"><PRE>dg.setPropertiesAt(<FONT color=bl... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1052 2005-03-17T13:46:57-07:00 Flex <P>The validators that are provided in Flex cannot be localized or have the error strings easily changed because they cannot have an id, which means they cannot be accessed from script and you cant bind objects that dont have an id. One solution is t... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1050 2005-01-26T12:16:29-07:00 Flex <P>I have heard requests from developers using ColdFusion and Flex that they would like more information about integrating the two. One of my coworkers Tom Link&nbsp;started a blog and his first few entries cover ColdFusiona and Flex integration. His... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1048 2004-12-10T09:06:31-07:00 ColdFusionMX,Flex <P>Here is another recent question I recieved through email so I thought I would share the answer. </P> <P><STRONG>Question:</STRONG> Is it possible to build a flex app that will show changing data in a database without refreshing the browser? Kinda... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1047 2004-12-09T15:23:02-07:00 Flex <P>I was recently asked the following question around precompiling. It is a little known fact that if you precompile a Flex application flex does not load the SWF from disk. In order to take full advantage of the cached SWF you need to create your ow... http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1046 2004-12-09T12:19:13-07:00 Flex