I have been working hard on a new project, to be released as open source called "TaskCFC." This is a group task management system that uses ColdFusion on the back end and Flex on the front end. I am writing this since it seems there are no real easy to use/easy to customize group task mgt systems out there. Ultimately this *WILL* be integrated with FusionDox, and may be integrated with Google apps and Google App Engine.

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Here is one of several apps I have written recently that i've been meaning to put on the blog. This app shows how Flex can bridge data from multiple sources. Perform a keyword search, maybe search for an iphone, and this app will search craigslist, and show you the results displayed on a map of the city.

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In my CF United 2008 presentation on Charting with Flex and ColdFusion, I demonstrated a nifty actionscript function to dynamically create a remoteObject without needing to use services-config.xml. (The code is nearly identical to code written by Mike Nimer, but lovingly frosted with glucose... rr tweaked for my needs) I also mentioned that using this, it would be possible to have an external settings file read at runtime that defined your remote object endpoint, without needing to use an annoying services-config.xml file and allowing run-time configuration of your remote data services.

Why would you want to do that? (you might ask...) Well, the short answer is that you can re-configure the server that your app talks to without re-compiling your flex app, which is really important if you do any type of QA testing.

So this post is all about how to do that thing i just described.

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The last couple hours have been spent migrating data from my aging "BlogCFM" installation to my all new shiny "BlogCFC" setup. Hopefully everything translated well, and everybody will enjoy the more modern features of this setup including proper RSS feeds and del.icio.us integration etc.

I've got some new Flex posts about ready, so stay tuned, and feel free to comment if you like the new site!

For those interested, I found this nifty utility for exporting/importing data for BlogCFC here, and I wrote my own custom export for BlogCFM so that it exported in the format this utility expected. It went relatively painlessly... http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/30/BlogCFC-ExportImport-Code

I am generally NOT ok with hacking operating systems to remove software or hardware restrictions.  That being said, the Iphone Dev Team released their new pwnage 2.0 tool on sunday, after an incredible amount of hype.  I went ahead and used the tool and now my iphone is unlocked with the 2.0 firmware for use with any sim card.

Note: Links to pages that explain how to unlock your iphone are at the bottom of this post.

So, if I am against hacking hardware and software, why did I unlock my iphone?

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