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In computing, ColdFusion is used to refer to both a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995, and the programming language used with that platform. Originally designed to make it easier to connect sim... More from Wikipedia
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Searching across all resources in Chrome

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Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/27/2012

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A look at JavaScript Form Validation

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Extending Classes In A Modular JavaScript Application Architecture Using RequireJS

Yesterday, I tried to apply some deep thinking to how dependencies should be managed in a modular JavaScript application arc... Similar stories ...
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A database utility class for PhoneGap

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Managed Dependencies vs. Dependency Injection In RequireJS

In my journey towards understanding modular JavaScript application architecture, I've been using a lot of RequireJS . The R... Similar stories ...
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Dissecting business failures: Allowing scope creep from clients

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New Adobe Inspire Magazine out (with an article by yours truly...)

The title says it all. The latest issue of Adobe's Inspire Magazine is out. There's lots of good content with the only low po... Similar stories ...
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PhoneGap RSS Reader - Part 3

Welcome to my third entry for my (what was at first) simple PhoneGap RSS reader. If you haven't yet, please be sure to read p... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion Position at Adobe

Passing on this job notice from Adobe. It is a contract position with the possibility of converting to full time. We hav... Similar stories ...
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Detecting invalid HTML with JavaScript

As a blogger, I write quite a few blog posts. I hate RTEs (Rich Text Editors) so I'll typically do most of any desired HTML b... Similar stories ...
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Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application

Last week, I looked at handling keyboard shortcuts in a modular JavaScript application architecture . In that initial explor... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion Koans

I'm a bit late to blog on this, almost three months late, but folks may want to check out Ryan Anklam's ColdFusion Koans. Wha... Similar stories ...
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Two CFGRID Examples: Related grids and updating checkboxes

I've had a simple CFGRID demo sitting in my local web server for a few months now and never got around to sharing it on the b... Similar stories ...
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Handling Keyboard Shortcuts Within Modular JavaScript Application Architecture

Yesterday, when using Gmail, I started to think about keyboard shortcuts. Specifically, I started to think about how keyboard... Similar stories ...
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Downloading files to a PhoneGap application - Part 2

Yesterday I blogged my experiment with downloading files to a PhoneGap application. Today I decided to take my code and try i... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion opportunity at the Catholic University of America

Just passing this along... The Catholic University of America, located in Washington, D.C., is hiring a mid-level web se... Similar stories ...
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Using An IFrame To Override document.write() Inside A DOM (Document Object Model) Sandbox

Last week, I talked about loading GitHub Gist content after the DOM (Document Object Model) had loaded . This was a somewhat... Similar stories ...
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Downloading files to a PhoneGap application - Part 1

For the past week or so I've been looking at file system access and downloads with PhoneGap. Before going any further, I want... Similar stories ...
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Quick tip - using cfthrow as a reminder

I just typed this code in and I thought I'd share it to see if I was the only one who did this. I'm working on a proce... Similar stories ...
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A Book Apart: Responsive Web Design By Ethan Marcotte

Last weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . It was a compelling read that talked about the broader benefits of de... Similar stories ...
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CF101: Adding an API to your site

Have you ever wanted to create an API for your web site? Many sites do so now - using their API as a way to share their infor... Similar stories ...
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Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/17/2012

Some really interesting posts this week including a lot of Stage3D including a free Starling book, new Stage3D powered site f... Similar stories ...
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(Still) Looking for a ColdFusion job?

A few weeks back I posted a job notice from my former employers, REX Technologies. Turns out this worked great for them, and ... Similar stories ...
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Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions

Last night, I was listening to the Lately In JavaScript podcast . Among the many items discussed, one topic that was brought... Similar stories ...
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Experimenting With GitHub Gist-Based Code Samples For My Blog

Last week, I started looking around for a new color-coding solution for my blog's syntax highlighting. For the past couple of... Similar stories ...
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Demo of Color Palettes and PhoneGap

Earlier today I discovered the excellent Color Thief JavaScript library by Lokesh Dhakr. Color Thief gives you the ability to... Similar stories ...
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Loading GitHub Gists After The Page Content Has Loaded

A long time ago, I created a syntax highlighter / color-coder for my blog post code snippets. It was a pain to create; but in... Similar stories ...
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Working with the battery in a PhoneGap application

One of the interesting things added in PhoneGap 1.3.0 (and something I missed until fairly recently), was support for battery... Similar stories ...
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How to get your ColdFusion Builder 2 Serial

A few days ago a buddy of mine asked how to get his CFBuilder 2 serial number. Turns out you can't do that from the IDE itsel... Similar stories ...
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Simple JQuery Google Analytics tracking object

Each time I build a new project I find myself adding in several common objects from a variety of languages. One of those obje... Similar stories ...
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Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources

As of now, all of my experimentation with modular JavaScript application architecture has been exclusive to client-side cod... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion Zeus POTW: queryNew/queryAddRow

Time for another ColdFusion Zeus preview - this one being simply a modification to two functions but one I've wanted for a wh... Similar stories ...
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Using a server, or session storage, to persist form values

Yesterday on Twitter docwisdom asked me about using AJAX to persist form values while you edited data. This is something I've... Similar stories ...
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Using The RequireJS Build / Optimizer To Concatenate Modularized CSS Files

A little while back, I started looking at RequireJS as away to organize and modularize my JavaScript code . And, while I am ... Similar stories ...
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Securing your applications using HttpOnly cookies with ColdFusion

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Important ADC article on ColdFusion and Security

Just wanted to pass along a link to a newly published article on the Adobe Developer Connection related to ColdFusion and sec... Similar stories ...
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Example of callback URL support in ColdFusion Builder

I know this isn't new - and I've blogged it before - but I thought it was cool so I thought I'd share. I'm preparing for an e... Similar stories ...
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Building Executable Scripts For The Mac OSX Command Line

I'm relatively new to the Mac OSX operating system . And, as far as getting around on the command-line, I'm even more of a n... Similar stories ...
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Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 1/9/2012

This is the first update of the new year and there are a ton of sample applications, tutorials and announcements over the pas... Similar stories ...
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E-Seminar on Tuesday - RIAForge

Tomorrow, at 11AM CST, I'll be giving an online presentation on RIAForge. I'll discuss how it was created, why it was created... Similar stories ...
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Some thoughts from the mobile workshop yesterday...

Yesterday I was honored to speak at the mobile workshop put on by Adobe Creative Suite User Group of San Jose. It was a great... Similar stories ...
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Job Posting: Simpleview, inc

Just passing this along... Multiple Positions for Web Developers @ One of Arizona's best places to work! Simpleview inc... Similar stories ...
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Code+Slides from jQuery Mobile Presentation

For those of you at the mobile workshop in San Francisco today (or anyone, really), I've attached the PDF and code samples to... Similar stories ...
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My natural development pattern - software layer-ification

Whilst reflecting on some of the projects I'd been through in 2011 I noticed a pattern that became more and more prominent as... Similar stories ...
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Creating A Fixed-Length Queue In JavaScript Using Arrays

The other day, I was laying in bed thinking about JavaScript Arrays. Specifically, I was thinking about an Array that would h... Similar stories ...
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Working with dates and SQLite in PhoneGap

One of my favorite features of Adobe AIR, and in HTML5, is the ability to make use of a local SQLite database. For mobile or ... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion Zeus POTW - XPath/XLST Updates

For the most part, I try to avoid XML. I almost always go towards using JSON - both as a consumer and a producer. That being ... Similar stories ...
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My 2011 Book List

Sorry, I don't think most folks care what I read in 2011, but I wanted to check out Bagcheck.com's embed feature. Nothing to ... Similar stories ...
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Disabling Auto-Correct And Auto-Capitalize Features On iPhone Inputs

Over the weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . In his book, Wroblewski mentioned that in order to create the mos... Similar stories ...
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Book review: JQuery Mobile – a first look

I was recently sent a copy of JQuery Mobile by Packt publishing for review. I've dabbled in the JQuery Mobile development lan... Similar stories ...
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Best Flash Community Bloggers of 2011

The quantity and quality of content and demos created by the Flash community never ceases to amaze me.There is certainly no s... Similar stories ...
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Converting XML to JSON - My exploration into madness...

Forgive the overly dramatic blog title - just having a bit of fun. A coworker asked me yesterday how one could take a flat XM... Similar stories ...
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What CSS Properties Are Supported When You Drop IE6 Support

Over the new year's holiday weekend, I read Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski . In the book, Wroblewski talks about leveraging... Similar stories ...
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Looking for a ColdFusion job?

My former employers, REX Technologies, are looking to hire some folks. It's a great place to work and there's some really sma... Similar stories ...
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Parse.com - dynamic data storage for mobile

During the Christmas break, I had the chance to look at, and play with, Parse. While you can check the site for the marketing... Similar stories ...
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A Book Apart: Mobile First By Luke Wroblewski

As a web applications developer, I know that people use mobile devices to access my work; but, unfortunately, this fact is st... Similar stories ...
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Speaking in San Francisco this weekend

This weekend I'll be speaking at the Adobe Creative Suite User Group. They are having a one day conference in San Francisco c... Similar stories ...
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Best Music of 2011

For those of you that don’t already know, over the past year I have cohosted a biweekly radio show with my friend Bob S... Similar stories ...
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Creating a fade/toggle/change effect in jQuery

While watching the Saints completely devastate the Panthers this weekend, I noticed something interesting in the "info ticker... Similar stories ...
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Experimenting With A JavaScript Gateway To A Remote ColdFusion Persistence API

Last week, I was really trying to dig into modular JavaScript application architecture and development using RequireJS. In th... Similar stories ...
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My 2012 Resolutions

Yep, time again to make a list I'll be guilty over in a year. ;) Actually, let me start off by reviewing what I said last yea... Similar stories ...
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A Final Note

The past years, months and weeks have had a huge amount of change wrapped up within them for me.  Much of that change had imm... Similar stories ...
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Experimenting With A JavaScript Gateway To A Remote ColdFusion Persistence API

Last week, I was really trying to dig into modular JavaScript application architecture and development using RequireJS . In ... Similar stories ...
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How I debug JavaScript issues

After helping a friend earlier this week with a JavaScript issue, I thought I'd quickly write up the normal ways I attack iss... Similar stories ...
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The future of BlogCFC

My recent interview with CFHOUR has just been posted. In this podcast I discuss Zeus (and let slip a few new things), but I a... Similar stories ...
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How Client-Side Validation Is Changing The Shape Of Server-Side Validation

It used to be (and often times, still is) that when a user submitted a form in a web application, the entire page would be su... Similar stories ...
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Preventing Links In Standalone iPhone Applications From Opening In Mobile Safari

When developing web applications for the iPhone, one of the cool things that you can do is save your web application to the "... Similar stories ...
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Business logic in a PhoneGap app

This question came in to me via Stefan Richter yesterday on Twitter and I thought I'd use the blog to answer in a bit more de... Similar stories ...
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Zeus on the ColdFusion Meetup

Want more news on Zeus, the next version of ColdFusion? Rakshith will be presenting on the January 12th meeting of the Online... Similar stories ...
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InVision - Front-End JavaScript Developer Positions

InVision is a user experience (UX) prototyping tool and collaboration platform that's working to change the way that the w... Similar stories ...
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Using DDX and CFPDF to set the initial page for a PDF

Earlier this morning a reader asked about how to send a user a PDF that opened at a particular page. Apparently it is possibl... Similar stories ...
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jQuery Mobile course available on Udemy

I finally got time to wrap up my jQuery Mobile course for Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-jquery-mobile/. The cou... Similar stories ...
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Creating A JavaScript Shim For Array Unshift() Method

If you write JavaScript, chances are good that you're familiar with the push() and pop() methods of an Array . These methods... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion Zeus POTW - Extra edition again...

Hey, it's the holidays, so why not share one more quick ColdFusion Zeus update? This is another little feature that literally... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion + jQuery example

As my last act before heading out for vacation (ok, I lie, you know I'm going to blog again, at least 5-6 times), here is an ... Similar stories ...
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The Importance of Development Environments

My first job as a software developer was in 1998, while I was an undergrad at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ.  The p... Similar stories ...
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ColdFusion Zeus POTW - Extra edition...

Ok, I know I did a Zeus POTW earlier this week, but I had to share this little gem. This is another small thing - a simple fu... Similar stories ...
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For Pay: I Need A Few Hours Consulting On Modular JavaScript Application Architecture

I love JavaScript! I love it. Only, my understanding of JavaScript architecture is a bit old-school. For the last few months,... Similar stories ...
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Suggestions for learning mobile development?

This question came in via Twitter and I didn't have a great answer. Thought it would be nice to open it to my readers and get... Similar stories ...
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