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CFContent-Variable Response vs. Standard Output Response

I've been playing around with ColdFusion Builder Extensions lately and I'm running into some very odd behavior. Before I write anything about that, however, I wanted to confirm that a response driven by the CFContent tag and its Variable attribute is identical to a response driven by the standard ColdFusion output. To test this hypothesis, I created a simple ColdFusion page that would take XML data and return it, based on a URL variable, using either the standard ColdFusion output or the CFCo ... Read More » (translate)

jQuery UI 1.7 By Dan Wellman

This weekend, I finished reading jQuery UI 1.7 [The User Interface Library For jQuery] by Dan Wellman (released by PACKT Publishing). It's a follow-up to his jQuery UI 1.6 book, which I reviewed in earl ... Read More » (translate)

Five Months Without Hungarian Notation And I'm Loving It

About five months ago, I expressed a growing concern that my coding methodology at the time was forcing me to create contradictions within my naming conventions . As such, I decided to completely dump my pseudo Hungarian notation for a while and adopt a more traditional, headless-camel-case approach to see how it felt. That was back in June; now, in November, I have ... Read More » (translate)

What Request Data Does ColdFusion Builder Post To Extension Handlers?

Last night, I started playing around with ColdFusion Builder extensions, creating an extension that could encrypt and decrypt CFM and CFC files . The main reason ColdFusion Builder extensions are so attractive as a means to extend the Eclipse platform is that they are powered by actual ColdFusion files (our bread and butter). When you invoke a ColdFu ... Read More » (translate)

My First ColdFusion Builder Extension - Encrypting And Decrypting CFM / CFC Files

After watching Simon Free present on ColdFusion Builder Extensions at RIAUnleashed up in Boston, I felt inspired and wanted to come home and start playing around with my own little extensions (get your mind out of the gutter!). As a "hello world" type introduction to the ColdFusion Builder extension arena, I thought I would try and keep it as simple as possible, not dealing with any wizards or response modals; my first extensions - ColdFu ... Read More » (translate)

Using Logical Operators To Perform Ternary Operations In Javascript

Yesterday on Twitter, Cody Lindley pointed out that logical operators in Javascript (&& and ) don't simply return True or False - they return specific operands used in the logical statement. While I have leveraged this concept in the past with statements like this: // Logical OR in assignment. var options = (options defaultOptions);   // Logical AND in testing. ... Read More » (translate)

Using CFParam To Define A Variable Number Of Arguments In ColdFusion (And What ColdFusion 9 Teaches Us)

Yesterday, I was watching an episode of " Flex and the City " (a female bodybuilding spoof on "Sex and the City") when I started to think about ColdFusion function definitions with a variable number of arguments. Most of the time, when we need to have a variable number of arguments in a method signature, we accomplish this by giving the subsequent CFArgument tags a requi ... Read More » (translate)

Looping Over ColdFusion JSON Queries In jQuery

I've talked to people many times about how to loop over ColdFusion queries that have been returned from an AJAX call in JSON format. The serialized format of ColdFusion queries are a bit round-about since they are designed for memory optimization, not necessarily usability. As such, I often wind up telling people that I prefer to convert my queries to arrays of structs before returning them as that format is quite intuitive to work with on the Javascript side. After discussing this topi ... Read More » (translate)

Track Document-Level Clicks With jQuery MouseDown Events

The other day, I dicussed jQuery's live() event method and why understanding the mechanics behind it was extremely important; the reason being that the live() event method depends completely on the ability for a given event type to bubble up through the DOM (Document Object Model) tree. That post got me thinking about event bubbling in general and how important it is in the construction o ... Read More » (translate)

Using EXSLT To Extend XSLT With Custom Functions In ColdFusion

The other day, I answered a question for a reader about filtering XML nodes against a value list using the XPath function, contains() . In the question, the reader mentioned the EXSLT library; I had not heard of this, so when researching the solution, I looked it up at www.exslt.org. As it turns out, there's a whole mechanism and existing library for ... Read More » (translate)

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