DefaultProperties for ColdSpring Bean Factories

So I was playing with the defaultProperties configuration as mentioned on several sites, including this article by Dan Vega that got me going down the path. I wasn’t able to get it working at first, until I did a little messing around. Turns out that this:

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      <entry key="devFilepath">
               <value>${baseFilepath}logs</value>
      </entry>

Won’t work. The ColdSpring engine won’t find this as a configuration to populate. Instead, you have to make sure the whole space between the tags is what you want to have replaced, like so:

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      <entry key="devFilepath">
               <value>${devFilepath}</value>
      </entry>

Hope that helps someone out!

datefield cfinputs and _f is undefined

So there have been two occasions I’ve run into this error on a page – and it’s very ambiguous and hard to track down both times I’ve experienced it.  Fortunately, both times have also involved a very easy solution once I looked through the page for the 40th time.  The first time I encountered this, the previous form designer had named both cfforms on the page the same thing.  While this worked, it’s never advisable.  By doing this, the cfcalendar script could not locate the item because it couldn’t track down the form properly.

The second time I ran into this – just a few moments ago – was the same problem surfacing because the declaration for the form had been placed inside the declaration for the table.

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<table>
         <form></form>
</table>

This just did not sit well with the browser, being invalid and all.  Once I moved them outside of that formation and made it this:

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<form>
      <table></table>
</form>

it worked like a champ.    Hopefully this helps someone out there with this error in the future!

Flash Builder 4 and ColdFusion for Flex

Saw this video through a link provided by Hal Helms (@halhelms) on Twitter.   Really interesting stuff about using the new Flash Builder 4 interface to import Coldfusion CFCs directly and then once you have them imported, wire them right into your Flash piece without writing any Flex code at all.

http://snurl.com/j7e56