charlie griefer

east bay CFUG needs your help

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:00:00 -0400

in an earlier post i had mentioned that i was in the process of starting up an east bay CFUG. it's no secret that bay area traffic sucks hard and for those people living in areas like san ramon (that'd be me), livermore, dublin, etc, the drive into ...

twhirl makes twitter worth doing

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:49:00 -0400

many moons ago, i signed up for a twitter account. all the cool kids were doing it and damn if i'm not a lemming. i didn't quite "get it" tho. it's enough pressure to try and come up with a blog entry once in a blue moon that i think would hold a ...

coldfusion 8 - enhancements you may have missed

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:44:00 -0400

coldfusion 8 - enhancements you may have missed a few weeks back, i was approached by packt publishing and asked if i'd be interested in writing an article for their article network. their original request was about arrays in cf8, but i asked if we...

work with me in sunny san ramon, ca (yes, you!)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:25:00 -0400

amcom technology is looking for a senior business intelligence engineer. business intelligence is about getting the right information, to the right people, at the right time. it provides the ability to connect the dots by taking raw information, an...

going OO with a little help from my friends

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:27:00 -0400

so remember a few months back when i was all like, "i'm going OO, and i'm going to document my progress so maybe other folks will learn what i'm learning"? yeah, that didn't go so well. for me, my OO journey has been decidedly hit-and-miss (more mi...

support your local user group

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:15:00 -0400

this is a topic i've been thinking about for a while now. nolan erck just posted something to the south of shasta blog that prompted me to flesh out my thoughts a bit. what can user groups do to promote regular attendance? my first user group ...

dealing with form and URL variables

Fri, 30 May 2008 15:00:00 -0400

it's not terribly uncommon to have a page that is expecting a particular variable, but the page may not know if that variable will be in the form scope or URL scope. case in point might be a resultset that does pagination. on the first submit, the ... [More]

ebay: a rant

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:35:00 -0400

what are fridays good for if not getting a good rant off your chest? this is something that's been bothering me for a while, and i find that i frequently write it in e-mails, so i figure i can write it once here, and in the future when i need it i c... [More]

flex images: visible property funkiness in itemRenderer

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:56:00 -0400

in the flex app that i'm currently working on, i have a DataGrid that uses an itemRenderer to display an image. the image is a 'delete' button that allows the user to delete the item. fairly straightforward, and the code below was working fine... ...

cf.Objective() is tomorrow...

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:04:00 -0400

i arrive @ MSP 2:03pm tomorrow. anybody else hitting town about that time wanna split a cab/shuttle from the airport? if so, ping me.

hello 40's

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:19:00 -0400

just a quick update... the weekend camping excursion was a blast, and pitching the tent proved to be far less arduous of a process than i had expected (altho a few NSFW words were involved). since a picture is worth 1000 words, i'll let the photos s...

good-bye 30's

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:16:00 -0400

today is the last day that i'll be "in my 30's". when i wake up tomorrow, i'll have hit the big four-oh. i'd like to think i won't be too weirded out by it all, but it's already hitting me a little bit. feeling kinda... dunno really. just weird ....

mxml is xml (duh?)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:04:00 -0400

just a quickie today, something that i came across while playing around with flex. it could very well be a "duh, charlie" observation, but i think it bears mentioning. flex makes it very easy to bind elements to other elements or objects. what thi... [More]

flex: Objects are like structures. kinda. (part ii)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:34:00 -0400

last night i started documenting my journey of learning flex, focusing on my use of the built-in Object datatype and some issues that i faced in that respect. there was one other aspect of this that i meant to touch on. to recap, i was passing a si...

thank you charlie arehart

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:36:00 -0400

a couple of weeks ago i started looking at transfer. i found myself wishing that i hadn't missed out on mark mandel's presentation to the inland empire coldfusion user's group that he had given a couple of months ago. heck i would have been thrille... [More]