How to consume CFaaS using Flex client ?
Hi All, Welcome Back! Here is a brief explanation on how services exposed by Coldfusion(CFAAS) can be consumed using Flex client. FYI, Coldfusion9 has exposed few utlities as services, namely : Charting (CFCHART) ,Document Services (CFDOCUMENT) , PDF Utilities (CFPDF) ,Image Manipulation (CFIMAGE) , Mail (CFMAIL)  & Pop (CFPOP) Here i would like to explain how one of  the most [...]

Link: Form Validation in Flex
This sounds like a cool AS3/Flex library to try out for the next time you need to validate forms and data in Flex.  It’s an AS3 port of a Java library, supposedly geared towards unit testing, but also happens to be very good for form validation, as Joel Hooks points out in this article; http://www.insideria.com/2009/11/validation-in-flex-with-hamcre.html

Using Git with CFML
Today I was writing a little app that helps me keep up with my Todo list, since I wanted to have a web interface for some reporting into my tasks. The issue is that my todo list is just a text file (and before you go saying there are various apps, I am happy with my text file ok? for various reasons which are not part of this post), so I built a nice web interface to it, but the problem is that since I can modify it, and whilst I was developing it I wanted a way to back

PDF Accessibility – part 3 of 3 (reading text)
This blog is the third in a series that explores PDF accessibility. This installment describes how to implement PDFs using Adobe LiveCycle Designer so that form text is accessible to users of assistive technologies. In this series: PDF Accessibility – part 1 (introduction) – an introduction to accessibility standards and technologies PDF Accessibility – part 2 (reading fields) [...]

Balsamiq + Napkee
Balsamiq and Napkee are great products that help software designers and developers build great software by letting them easily sketch out their ideas, then quickly collaborate and iterate over them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLysy3IPfFI http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/examples www.Napkee.com lets you to export Balsamiq Mockups to HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 at a click of a button. Both of these companies are very supportive to the developer community. Both graciously provided free licenses to giveaway at the Space City Adobe User Group! Check them out a give their products a try!