Programming

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stickman’s accordian.js and prototype 1.6.0 not playing well together

yesterday i was having some issues with accordian.js and the latest greatest version of prototype. everything worked fine and dandy with prototype 1.5.1.1, but i was having problems with ‘too much recursion’ errors while using Effects.DropOut from scriptaculous’ effects.js. so… i decided to upgrade to prototype 1.6.0, and that’s when the accordian broke. :*(
 
turns out [...]

12Dec2007 | Jim | 5 comments | Continued
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Adobe onAir Event

I’ll be leaving this evening for the Adobe onAir event in Atlanta. I’ll be there all day tomorrow. onAir is Adobe’s 18 stop bus tour where they code while on the bus, and stop in these cities and show off what they’ve done while on the road. It’s all about Apollo and Flex (Apollo is [...]

13Aug2007 | Jim | 0 comments | Continued
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remoteObject() and Cold Fusion

 
I’ve recently started using Adobe Flex, and so far I really love it. Since I’m unable to design my way out of a wet paper bag, having pretty little components available like the datagrid has made me very happy.
Today i’m going to talk about my new friend remoteObject(), and since I am primarily a ColdFusion [...]

1Aug2007 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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What the CRUD?!

CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete)
When interacting with any form of storage, these are the 4 basic methods that
you will use. Any time you are dealing with files, you will mostly only Create
a file, Retrieve a file, Update a file, or Delete a file. When dealing with
data, you will [...]

1Aug2007 | Jim | 1 comment | Continued
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Instantiating CFCs (Hello World!)

There are so many different ways to instantiate CFCs, that I decided that I would document them here for those who are interested.
Here is the helloWorld.cfc that we’ll be working with:

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<cfcomponent hint="Hello World Component">
<cffunction name="greet">
<cfreturn "Hello World!">
</cffunction>
 
<cffunction name="greetUser">
<cfargument name="name" default="">
<cfset greeting = "Hello #arguments.name#!">
 
<cfreturn greeting>
</cffunction>
 
<cffunction name="display">
<cfargument name="name" default="">
<cfset greeting = "Hello #arguments.name#!">
<cfoutput>#greeting#</cfoutput>
</cffunction>
 
</cfcomponent>

<cfinvoke> is [...]

1Aug2007 | Jim | 2 comments | Continued
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Using XML and XSLT for managing content

    I’ve been helping these folks out lately with a project that involves managing a ridiculous amount of content with some rather strict formatting requirements. basically they are an online bible software site (though with a much grander vision), and they were needing a way to take multiple bible translations and index them within a relational database, [...]

19Jul2007 | Jim | 2 comments | Continued