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.

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.

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.

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.

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

1. 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)

2. 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>

3. Restart Apache

ColdFusion Setup

1. 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

2. Restart cfusion instance

We launched yet another flex application a few days ago.

It is a user car locator for Land Rover UK and is meant to be a rich user experience for finding an approved user car.

View it at Land Rover used cars by selecting the Rich Experience option.

It is power by Flex and ColdFusion technologies.

We launched another flex application a few days ago.

It is a user car locator for Mazda UK and is meant to be a rich user experience for finding an approved user car.

View it at Mazda used cars by selecting the Rich Experience option.

It is power by Flex and ColdFusion technologies.

We launched the project I have been working on the last few months a few days ago.

It is a user car locator for Jaguar UK and is meant to be a rich user experience for finding an approved user car.

View it at Jaguar used cars by selecting the Rich Experience option.

It is power by Flex and ColdFusion technologies.

ColdContract now has a project at RIAForge.org http://coldcontract.riaforge.org/.

You’ll have to download it form the SVN repo for now, as there is not realy anything worth packageing up for download yet

I have been playing around with implementing Design by Contract in ColdFusion using Coldspring's AOP functionality.

ColdContract is a Coldspring AOP Advice which allows Design by Contract assertions to be added to ColdFusion components and for those assertions to be executed during program execution.

Design by Contract assertions are a mechanism for defining the specification of software components, in such a way as to allow the implementation of the specification to be tested in-line with program execution. This provides a difference (and arguably quicker) method of implementing TDD to Unit Testing.

Assertions are added to components using meta data attributes as shown below:

1. <!---


2. /**
3. *
4. * Copyright (c) 2008 David Beale (http://www.BealeARTS.co.uk)
5. *
6. **/
7. --->
8.  
9. <cfcomponent displayname="Stack"

10. hint="A FILO Stack example showing the use of ColdContract assertions. Stack items cannot be objects (Components)."
11. invariants="this.getNumberOfItems() gte 0, this.getNumberOfItems() eq arrayLen(variables.stack)"
12. >
13.  
14. <!--- INIT --->
15.  
16. <cffunction name="init"

17. hint="Constructor"
18. access="public"
19. returnType="Stack"
20. output="false"
21. >
22. <cfreturn this />
23. </cffunction>
24.  
25.  
26. <!--- PUBLIC --->
27.  
28. <cffunction name="push"

29. hint="Push an item onto the stack"
30. access="public"
31. returnType="void"
32. output="false"
33. preconditions="not isObject(arguments.item)"
34. postconditions="this.getNumberOfItems() eq oldThis.getNumberOfItems() + 1"
35. >
36. <cfargument name="item" hint="Item to add" type="any" required="true" />
37.  
38. <cfset arrayAppend(variables.stack, arguments.item) />
39. <cfset variables.stackIndex++ />
40.  
41. </cffunction>
42.  
43.  
44. <cffunction name="pop"

45. hint="Pop an item off the stack"
46. access="public"
47. returnType="any"
48. output="false"
49. preconditions="this.getNumberOfItems() gt 0"
50. postconditions="this.getNumberOfItems() eq oldThis.getNumberOfItems() - 1, not isObject(cfreturn)"
51. >
52.  
53. <!--- LOCALS --->
54. <cfset item = '' />
55.  
56. <cfset item = variables.stack[variables.stackIndex] />
57. <cfset arrayDeleteAt(variables.stack, variables.stackIndex) />
58. <cfset variables.stackIndex-- />
59.  
60. <cfreturn item />
61. </cffunction>
62.  
63.  
64. <cffunction name="getNumberOfItems"

65. hint="Get the number of items on the stack"
66. access="public"
67. returnType="numeric"
68. output="false"
69. >
70. <cfreturn arrayLen(variables.stack) />
71. </cffunction>
72.  
73.  
74. <!--- PRIVATE --->
75.  
76. <cfset variables.stack = arrayNew(1) />
77.  
78. <cfset variables.stackIndex = 0 />
79.  
80. </cfcomponent>
81. Download this code: stack.cfc