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Flex based Land Rover US Certified Pre-Owned Inventory Search

March 3rd, 2010

We have just launched a site for Land Rover in the US, it is designed to be a rich user experience for finding a certified pre-owned Land Rover cars in the USA.

View it at Land Rover Certified Pre-Owned Inventory Search by selecting the Enter Flash Site option.

Non-US users; why not try 90210 for the Zip Code

It is power by Flex and ColdFusion technologies.

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Jaguar UK used car locator for the iPhone

February 26th, 2010

As an extension of our Used Vehicle Locator product, we have just launch an iPhone targeted mobile version for Jaguar UK.

View it at Jaguar Used Cars Mobile using a iPhone or iPod Touch for the best experience.

If you need a Postcode to use, try GU7 1BZ

It is powered by ColdFusion.

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Flex Enumerator Class

January 25th, 2010

This is my take on creating an Enumerator class in Flex.

AS3 does not support Enumerators so a class with static constants is used as per the Java Enumerator class pattern.

This implementation is type safe and final. It also contains static helper functions; values() which returns an array of the Enumerator objects (useful for iterations) and getByValue() which allows for easy retrieval of a typed Enumerator object from its primitive value.

package
{
import flash.errors.IllegalOperationError;
import flash.utils.Dictionary;
import flash.utils.describeType;
/**
* Example Enumerator Representing different RGB Colors
*/
public final class ColorEnum
{
/* PUBLIC */
public static var RED:ColorEnum = new ColorEnum('RED', PrivateEnforcer);
public static var GREEN:ColorEnum = new ColorEnum('GREEN', PrivateEnforcer);
public static var BLUE:ColorEnum = new ColorEnum('BLUE', PrivateEnforcer);
/**
* Constructor
*/
public function ColorEnum(value:String, privateEnforcer:Class)
{
// Force private call only
if (privateEnforcer != PrivateEnforcer)
{
throw new IllegalOperationError("Invalid constructor access");
}
// Add Enum value
this._value = value;
}
/**
* Get all Enumerator Values
*/
public static function values():Array
{
/* LOCALS */
var values:Array = new Array();
var value:ColorEnum = null;
if (ColorEnum._values == null)
ColorEnum.buildValues();
for each (value in ColorEnum._values)
values.push(value);
return values;
}
/**
* Get an Enumerator instance by its primative value
*/
public static function getByValue(value:String):ColorEnum
{
if (ColorEnum._values == null)
ColorEnum.buildValues();
return ColorEnum._values[value] as ColorEnum;
}
/**
* override value
*/
public function valueOf():Object
{
return this._value;
}
/**
* override toString
*/
public function toString():String
{
return this._value;
}
/* PRIVATE */
private var _value:String = '';
private static var _values:Dictionary = null;
/**
* Build static dictionary of all Enum consts and values
*/
private static function buildValues():void
{
/* LOCALS */
var metaData:XML = describeType(VehicleTypeEnum);
var node:XML = null;
// Create values Dictionary
ColorEnum._values = new Dictionary();
// Add Each Enum const and value
for each (node in metaData.children())
{
if (node.name() == 'variable' && node.@type == metaData.@name)
ColorEnum._values[ColorEnum[node.@name].toString()] = ColorEnum[node.@name];
}
}
}
}
class PrivateEnforcer {}
Download this code: ColorEnum.as.txt

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Flex based Jaguar Certified Pre-Owned Inventory Search

December 27th, 2009

For those of you in the US who have had to use UK Postcodes to try out our Used Vehicle Locators, struggle no more! We have just launched a site for Jaguar in the US.

It is designed to be a rich user experience for finding a certified pre-owned Jaguar car in the USA.

View it at Jaguar Certified Pre-Owned Inventory Search by selecting the Enter Flash Site option.

Non-US users; why not try 90210 for the Zip Code

It is power by Flex and ColdFusion technologies.

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Flex based Kia Used Car Locator

November 8th, 2009

Our flex based used car locator application continues to shift like hot cakes.

The latest one is for Kia UK and is meant to be a rich user experience for finding an approved user car.

View it at Kia used cars by selecting the Enter Used Vehicle Locator option.

It is power by Flex and ColdFusion technologies.

Posted in ColdFusion, Flex | 2 Comments »

Creating a local proxy for ColdFusion development

October 13th, 2009

If you have to develop behind a proxy server, you may have encountered the following problem;

The ColdFusion (JRUN) JVM settings allow one to specify a proxy server, allowing your local ColdFusion to connect to external public URLs. However there is no proxy by-pass options, so when configured your ColdFusion cannot connect to local URLs which are not resolved by the proxy server, i.e. local development servers.

The following solution uses Apache to create a local proxy server for your local ColdFusion to use;

Apache Setup

Enable mod_proxy for Apache by un-commenting the following modules to load in your httpd.conf file. If you do not have the mod_proxy module, then you will need to install it.
```
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so  (required for cfhttp)
```

Add the following virtual host configuration to your local httpd-vhosts.conf file

# Local Proxy for ColdFusion
Listen 8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
    DocumentRoot D:\InetPub\wwwroot
    ServerName localhost

    ProxyRequests On
    ProxyVia On

    ProxyRemote * http://your-proxy-server:8080

    NoProxy .local 192.168

</VirtualHost>

Restart Apache

ColdFusion Setup

Edit ColdFusion (cfusion) JVM settings in your local JRun4 admin (or CF Admin for non JRun install) to add the following proxy setting
```
-DproxySet=true -Dhttp.proxyHost=localhost -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080
```
Restart cfusion instance

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