Simeon Says

Following the lead of Kai over at Blog In Black, i am posting something i have been working on.

As soon as cfm7 was posted I heard some rumbling about folks wishing they could filter the results of a cfgrid on the client side. I thought that was something I would could work on. So I started some psuedo code and gave it some thought and then promptly got side tracked.

So seeing Kai’s post this morning brought me back to this and I thought i would share my thoughts, and build on his work. Its not perfect, but its a start and perhaps someone better with Actionscript could clean it up

Filterable Grid in CF7

Read on for the code sample.

I will be the first to admit that I have fully jumped on the google bandwagon. I read google news, use gmail, enjoy the google maps and other serives. When I think web search I type google.com

But that was not always the case. When I started doing web work my world revolved around Yahoo! They handled my mail and calendar, my groups and addresses. They helped me see the web as a useful place (its not just about porn and Identity theft). I think without the efforts they made in making the web a friendly place for new comers, we would not have such a high acceptance rate for net usage. I even remember when yahoo was just one page. And I am thankful for thier vision in seeing what the web could be.

My wife sent me this link today. It is the Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web. This is a great Flash application with hightlights 100 moments of the last 10 years related to the internet. I think its really cool.

The site in inspired by 10×10. This is another flash site which has similiar cool effects, but its about live news. What it does is every hour it scans RSS feeds of several leading international news sites and it assigns weights the results of the top news stories to get the top 100 terms along with images to represent them. This is all done programatically with no human intervention. So what you get is a 10×10 grid of images that reflect what is the highest rated news around the world.

I am amazed by the wonderful things we can do by sharing information. I think that open sharing is going to be the only way that we can proceed beyond the problems we have in most aspects of our technology world right now. But even beyond that, I think the cool factor of what can be done is just amazing.

I know this is usually Ben Forta’s thing(i checked his site but didnt see reference to them), but I was really excited to see our companies new CRM provider using cold fusion for its web site.

At first I didnt notice, but as I entered the support section of thier site I noticed some cfm links. Then as I started looking around all I could finder were cfm links.

So although their new Act 2005 is a .Net application, they have chosen CF as a web platform.

I just love that stuff!

My employer is not an ecoommerce company by any means. However we do charge for some books that we sell and for membership to our sites, so Payment Procession is part of the deal.

For the last 3 years we have used PayFlow Pro on CF to get this done. We have always been very happy with the results.

With the launch of our new site this week on our new server running cfmx 7 it was essential to get the Java CFX tag for PayFlow Pro provided by Verisign working on the new server. This was not without a couple set back though. The Verisign support team was quick to help and within 24 hours of my report we had worked out a solution.

The problem was 2 fold. First it appears that the Versign.jar file that is provided in the Downloads area of your Verisign Manager is not the newest one available. So the first step that Support started me on was sending me a copy of the new Verisign.jar and CFXPayFlowPro.class files. This didnt solve the problem but it did get me a better error. Second fix was although I dont think the documentation says they are required ( I didnt check and my previously functional code didnt have them) the PROXY* attributes of the tag ARE required.

So adding PROXY(ADDRESS|PORT|LOGON|PASSWORD) = “” allowed me to run the test script and get my results back.

So in the end the solution was pretty simple and I know have PayFlow running with cfmx 7. I am very happy with cf 7 so far, and am looking forward to getting to do more with it.

Spike posted a new version of the CFEclipse plugin this evening. Included are some great new features (thanks to Chris Bradford) and also some bug fixes.

Check out the list of changes on Spike’s Blog

I have been using this release this evening and it is a very good release. I feel like it is much snappier and several of the features that got lost in recent editions have been returned. If you are a bleeding edge kind of developer ( or running 18.8) i definatly recommend this update.