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Despite being a Javascript user for years, there were some things I still didn’t know. Here are some of the interesting points I found from Ben Cherry’s presentation names are always hoisted to the top of their scope and always initialized to undefined var foo = 1; (function () { alert(foo); // undefined var foo [...]

Today was the first day I made a bit of progress that I feel good about. I got some of the basic concepts involved with input elements, binding, and event handling. A lot of the concepts are similar to the DOM mechanism but some are deeper. Of particular interest is the Event handling which has [...]

After installing Flex on my VMWare Windows XP, I still could not connect to the ColdFusion server on my Mac and ended up installing ColdFusion on XP (although this was not the approach I wanted to take). My XP’s limited resources would probably get fully consumed by CF + FlexBuilder and also I wouldn’t be [...]

Today begins my attempt to learn Flex (after months of planning). To start off – I began with a rather simple looking example by Ray Camden. http://www.insideria.com/2010/03/example-of-flex-3-and-coldfusion-9-orm.html. Unfortunately, I started out on my Mac and hit a wall. Ben Forta’s example uses the ColdFusion wizard which wasn’t available on the Mac platform yet (take that [...]