White paper on Hybrid Mobile Apps
I'm just passing this along, but I think folks who are doing work in the mobile space and making use of tools like Cordova may find this useful: Code Injection Attacks on HTML5-based Mobile Apps. It...
View ArticleColdFusion Summit 2014 - Call for Speakers
Last year's ColdFusion Summit was an incredible event, and this year will hopefully be even better. Want to speak? Now is your chance to submit a topic idea (and see what other people are submitting...
View ArticlengCordova Released
So I know (think?) there is a significant portion of my audience who do not use Twitter, and for those of you who have avoided that trap (don't let anyone fool you, it is a trap), you may have missed...
View ArticleQuick FYI: XHR, Cross Domain Requests, and Sessions
I discovered something new last night, which was painful, like all good learning tends to be. I'm building a Cordova application for a client that - like most hybrid apps - can be run via a local web...
View ArticleColdFusion Developer Security Guide
Today (or round about today), the ColdFusion docs published a new guide, the CFML Developer Security Guide (PDF) by the amazing Pete Freitag. This is a great companion to the lockdown guide (pdf) also...
View ArticleDelaying an Edge Animate asset until visible - Part 5
So, in my last post on this topic, I mentioned that I was surprised at how many times this "simple" topic kept coming up on my blog. In a way, this has turned into the series that just won't die - no...
View ArticleColdFusion Trusted Cache and Deleted Files
Just a small warning to folks using trusted cache on their production ColdFusion sites. If you have it enabled, hit a particular file, and then delete it, ColdFusion will still serve the file up. That...
View ArticleDate Fields, JavaScript, and the things that make me go crazy...
Just a quick note to detail some interesting issues I ran into last night. I was writing a very simple report tool for a client. He has a process that runs a large set of MLS queries and does a lot of...
View ArticleImportant Update for ColdFusion Builder 3 Users
Today Adobe released a patch to fix the broken update mechanism for CFBuilder 3. You can get the patch, and see more details, here: ColdFusion Builder 3 Mandatory Update Release. Note that - finally -...
View ArticleMy NCDevCon presentation: Practical HTML5
I believe this is the first time this particular presentation has been available, but if I'm wrong, forgive me. My NCDevCon talk on Practical HTML5 is now available for watching online: Practical...
View ArticleIssue with ColdFusion JavaSettings and ReloadOnChange
Just a quick note that one of Adobe's ColdFusion team members has discovered a bug with javaSettings. If you don't remember, javaSettings is a way to dynamically load JAR files for a ColdFusion...
View ArticleBuilding a Car Safety Inspection Finder (the good, ugly, and more ugly)
Earlier this week I came across a person looking to find a local (to Louisiana) car safety inspection location. I think most states require this but they differ on schedules. Louisiana recently moved...
View ArticleWhy I took that ObjectiveC training...
So my particular part (documentation) isn't publicly available yet, but here is the project: You can see (a bit) more at the site: http://creativesdk.adobe.com
View ArticleColdFusion UI The Right Way - HTML version
Back when Adam Cameron and I launched the ColdFusion UI - The Right Way project, I mentioned that initially we would accept submissions from the community to build out the content before releasing an...
View ArticleiOS Simulator not refreshing with Cordova (PhoneGap)? Read this.
About a month or two ago I noticed something odd with my Cordova tests. I'd fire off a call to the iOS simulator by doing cordova emulate ios. The first time, it worked fine. But as I edited I noticed...
View ArticleUsing the Gamepad API
My latest article for Tuts (this time Game Tuts) is now live. In this article I take a deep look at the gamepad API. I blogged about this a while ago but it has finally become (somewhat) more...
View ArticleCordova Media API Example
A few months ago I launched a new GitHub repo (https://github.com/cfjedimaster/Cordova-Examples) as a way to try to collect my various Cordova examples together under one roof. I had planned to add to...
View ArticlePhoneGap/Cordova File System questions
A large majority of the questions I get about PhoneGap and Cordova revolve around the file system API. It has had some pretty significant updates recently but still remains one of the most difficult...
View ArticleXCode "forgets" frameworks and bundles after a restart
Just blogging this as I had trouble Googling for a solution when it hit me. I've been doing ObjectiveC work lately for the CreativeSDK project and I kept running into an odd problem. I'd set up a...
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Add "Search Export" to ColdFusion Builder 3
Recently, a commenter on another blog mentioned that one of the things they missed from Dreamweaver is the ability to do a search and then export the results. I didn't even know DW had this and it...
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