Welcome to my new site, again

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Shan

I’ve finished moving everything over to Wordpress now. I ditched the Flex site I was building because since I started it, I’ve decided to make my site less of a personal site and more of my portal to the Flex/AIR/CF community. Also, since I had started that site, I’ve started to focus on open-source projects, [...]

CFUnited meetup for the IRC crowd

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Shan

I’ve finally created the event for those of us that hang out in #coldfusion and #flex, that are going to CFUnited. Many expressed interest in such an event, so let’s do it.
http://crush3r.com/page/jzyugdodsf
When you sign up, be sure to include your /nick and real name, so I can make some nifty name badges.
On a side note, [...]

Moving to Mac: ColdFusion 8.01

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Shan

Since my original Moving to Mac post, Adobe was kind enough to throw me into the ColdFusion 8.01 pre-release program. A quick download later, and I got to run the installer. Not only was the install process about 10x faster than my last CF8 install on Windows, but the process *after* the install, the loading [...]

phpBB3 user authentication with ColdFusion

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Shan

I needed to quickly authenticate some phpBB3 users in a Flex application, and figured that it’d be no problem. Boy, was I wrong. phpBB does some neat dynamic password hashing trick that, to someone with no php experience like myself, looked to be too complex to emulate in CF.
After some searching, I found this post [...]

Shan’s Simple Examples

Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Shan

I’ve started a series of posts on the Webapper blog called Shan’s Simple Examples. I’ll cover Flex and ColdFusion examples as I help others in the IRC channels #flex (EFNet) and #coldfusion / #cfflex (on DALNet).
Hopefully this will turn into a nice library of quick HOW-TOs for us developers.
See a list of blog postings.
View the [...]