The popular code generator Clear Data Builder will become available free of charge. Originally, Clear Data Builder was released as a command-line open source code generator a.k.a. DaoFlex. We've submitted it to Adobe Flex component exchange about two years ago, and it quickly became on...

Six months ago I was anxious to get the chance to upgrade our Web servers to Adobe ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition. During a product re-design, I realized how advantageous it would be for our customers to start using the new Flash Forms feature versus the standard HTML tables they h...

Dashboards are user interfaces that organize and present information intuitively, usually with graphical elements. The information is often aggregated from several sources (databases, operational metrics, log files, etc.) and summarized. They are often used by decision or policy makers...

As you may know by now, ColdFusion 7 includes a new feature that lets us create forms in flash format. They work as a replacement for html forms, but give us some additional controls like the tree, grid, and calendar. Even if making a 'form' doesn't sound very appealing to you, once yo...