This is one of those problems on which you could spend hours to find a solution. When having a DataGrid in Actionscript 3 and have a DataProvider behind it holding all data, updating the DataGrid can be quite a struggle. If you update the items in the DataProvider, they don’t show in the DataGrid, even [...]

If you’re using Remote Shared Objects (RSO’s) in conjunction with Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3) and having trouble getting the SyncEvent to fire after one of the RSO’s gets updated, then you’re not the only one. I struggled with this issue for an entire day, making it worthwile to write about it. According to Brad [...]

ColdFusion 9 is coming and quite some neat new features are being presented to the audience. One of those things is the newly introduced LOCAL scope. This has, however, caused a little stir on Ben Forta’s blog post, as it raises some questions. The creators of ColdFusion decided that variables in functions should, by default, [...]

Being a professional programmer in ColdFusion (among other languages), I read a lot of criticism about it. Quite some people argue about whether ColdFusion is a “real” programming language or not. The main reason for this is that it has an XML-like syntax instead of the conventional syntax using brackets and operators (==, !=, >, [...]

For work I’m writing a proposal on database usage, about which data types we should use in what situation. That has me stumbling upon an interesting problem. Let me explain. There are situations in data where records need to have some sort of flag, like “deleteAllowed” or “activeUser”. That would have one of two possible [...]