I decided to make a forum (http://VadexFX.com) over the weekend for Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion since FlexCoders and other mailing lists that pertain to Adobe Technologies have started to see an increase of off-topic topics and so this should help reduce that. Also, I am not really a fan of mailing lists since you can’t post any code that is neither formatted nor able to search properly and easily find what you want. Now to not also alienate the people that like the mailing list format I am working on a plug-in for the forum that will let you subscribe to a forum or a thread in its whole and you can respond to it by email.

Also, there was a discussion a while ago about breaking up the FlexCoders into a smaller list so I made sub-forums for some of those, and everything is on one site so it won’t thin out the flex community. The plus side is that you can just visit certain forums that interest you. Signing up takes less than 20 seconds (I timed it) and you can post immediately after. Check it out and give your comments on it, the theme is simple and easy on the eye. This should be treated as a supplement to the other mailing- lists but not a replacement. Nearly all support questions or help will be on the forum for the tutorials I do. Site one more time is http://VadexFX.com

This component is similar to the WordPress Blog stats that shows you how many users visit your site a day. View Source is Enabled, only problem with it is it uses Application.cfc thus if I restart my server then all data is lost. If You want you can tie in a database end and have it work. If your download it then make sure to set the Gateway Instances. Gateway ID: BlogStats , Type:DataServicesMessaging and just navigate to the CFC file that is under exhd/cfc/BlogStats.cfc. Here is the example, to see it work in real time open two tabs, go into one tab and refresh say twice then navigate to the other tab and there should be a delay of around 8 seconds before it updates the count. http://sherifabdou.com/cfusion/BlogStatsExample/BlogStats.cfm

• The Purpose of the Flex Data Management is to push data live and synchronize everything across the board with no HTTPservice requests or anything else that you have to do, everything happens in real time so you do not have to worry about a client not seeing up to date information. Ben Forta has a better explanation In this Tutorial I will show you how you can set it up and make everything work.
• Here is the example. http://sherifabdou.com/cfusion/DataPushSample/DataPushSample.swf. This is more complicated than what I am going over but the Source View is available so you can download it and try it out. To understand the power of Data Management, you need to open the example in two tabs. Now In one Tab Click on the DataGrid to edit the Database and in the other Tab click on the same item you clicked in tab 1 to also edit it. Now You have two windows open, change the Description in the first tab and in the second tab but have them both be different descriptions. Now go back to the first tab and click save. Now go to the Second tab, if you did it correctly you should get a screen similar to this.
  • This Prevents the whole idea of racing where one information could be different from the other if two people are editing it at the same time

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