ColdFusion UI Project Update
About a month ago Adam Cameron and I announced the ColdFusion UI project - a set of articles/demos that demonstrate how to do UI without the ColdFusion UI tags (like cfform, cftable, etc). I wanted to...
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ColdFusion Splendor/Thunder Public Betas
Unless you live under a rock (or have had the incredibly good sense to avoid Twitter), today we announced the public betas of ColdFusion Splendor (that's the next version of the server) and ColdFusion...
View ArticleVideo: Debugging with Firefox DevTools
I'm a bit late on this as I didn't even know it was published yet (ok, just two hours ago, but still... ;) but today NetTuts published my video on Firefox DevTools: Debugging with Firefox DevTools It...
View ArticleGoogle+ Sign-In and ColdFusion
A while ago I blogged (see related entries) about ColdFusion, OAuth, and Google. I ended up using this on a client's project. They go to his app, click sign-in, are redirected to Google, and upon...
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Friday Puzzler: Rolling the die...
It has been a while since my last Friday puzzle, but I ran across something yesterday that I thought would be an excellent little coding challenge. Even better, this one I guarantee shouldn't take you...
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Recording and Assets from my Harp.js Presentation
I just wrapped up my first "Hangouts on Air" presentation on Harp.js and YouTube has it available already. Dang that's cool. I've embedded the video below. You can find all the assets (slide deck and...
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Cordova 3.4.0 Released
Yesterday was the official release of Cordova 3.4.0. You can read the blog post here but I thought I'd call out some interesting tidbits. This is the first release to include support for Firefox OS....
View ArticleRecommendation: The Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross
Over the past month and a half I've devoured the Merchant Princes series by Charles Stross. Originally released as 6 books, they are also available as 3 books (which is what the author originally...
View ArticleCreating a data backup of a WebSQL database
I haven't written much about WebSQL lately, mainly because it is Dead Spec Walking, but as it still works in Cordova (for now), I get questions from time to time about it and this one in particular...
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ColdFusion and Form Fields with the Same Name
Many months ago I blogged about a great new feature in ColdFusion 10. It allowed you to take form fields with the same name and return them as an array. Why was this important? Consider the following...
View ArticleComic Cover Muzei
A few weeks ago I blogged about the Marvel API and how incredibly cool it was that Marvel would let developers play with their data. I built a demo (marvel.raymondcamden.com) with it but I was really...
View ArticleCreating Next/Previous Links in HarpJS
Before I start - a quick apology. I know that this particular topic has been covered before, but I'm having a heck of a time finding the article. I wanted to build a quick example for a friend anyway...
View ArticleNested Layouts in HarpJS
Currently it isn't possible to use nested layouts in HarpJS. But with a little work you can support it easily enough. Here is a solution (with an alternative) that you can use until (if) HarpJS...
View ArticleInteresting discovery with CasperJS, jQuery, and transitions
Earlier this week I got to look at some code using CasperJS. CasperJS is a testing utility for PhantomJS, a headless (i.e. virtual) Webkit browser. This is probably unfair, but I like to think of...
View ArticleMy ColdFusion Bugs - visualized
One last blog entry before I enter Mardi Gras oblivion. Earlier this week I had logged into the ColdFusion bugbase and noticed that I had over 500 bugs in the system. I thought this was kinda cool and...
View ArticleBarcode Scanner sample, and new repo for Cordova examples
Phillip recently asked me for a simple barcode scanner example in Cordova, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to fire up another GitHub repo just for sample apps. I've got a couple of repos...
View ArticleRemember DevelopRIA?
So a long, long time ago the site InsideRIA was shut down and the articles archived over at DevelopRIA. I blogged about this here back in 2011. (The old days. Remember them?) As just an FYI, that site...
View ArticleColdFusion, Random Numbers, and Time
A while ago I logged an bug I had discovered with ColdFusion REST services. I had created a simple REST service that returned a random number between one and one hundred. Nothing too complex, right?...
View ArticleReprint: What in the heck is JSONP and why would you use it?
Earlier this week I blogged about the demise of DevelopRIA. Last night someone pinged me about one of my articles there so I thought it would be a good idea to republish it. The article is somewhat...
View ArticleThis blog...
I have to apologize. For a while now this server has had issues. Sometimes I have to restart the services every morning. Sometimes it runs fine for days. My host, Edge Web, are very proactive and...
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