FlexCold is coming soon!

For longer than I can remember... ok not really, for about 10 years... I have written form after form after form to essentially accomplish CRUD. Every site just about seems to require a page or multiple pages which basically serve the purpose of reporting on the records of data in specific tables. Then a form is required to update this data, add new records, delete records, or changes related lookup data in response to this data's status changes or the site's requirements.

The thought occurred to me that a widget or control or panel or whatever you want to call it could be useful to allow any page the basic functionality of displaying, editing, and interacting with the data in a given table or "selected table" w/o re-writing the interface to this purpose. A form would have to be dynamically built based on the fields of data in the chosen table. The widget would have to have an understanding of field datatypes, so that UI controls could be shown in the form to given relevant perspective. Boolean fields would show as radio buttons. Lookups fields could be select boxes. Dates could prompt a calendar control. etc.

Well, time has rolled by and I got further into Flex development and kinda don't wanna do this in CF anymore. I love ColdFusion and I thought of doing this project in both, but after careful consideration, the Flex platform will simply allow me better options. ColdFusion will handle the configuration and database access portion of the project. Flex will handle the UI for both the widget and the admin for widget configuration.

I should have more details on this project in the coming weeks and will post some links as they are available.