iPhone: What's Adobe Doing About It?

I was curious if anyone had heard any news about how Adobe might be looking to have their tools integrate with the iPhone in some way. There's been a lot of buzz about iPhone and Ajax lately and I was… Continue Reading

Digg Switches to jQuery for their Ajax, DOM and Effects needs

Exciting times for the jQuery project. Digg.com is now using jQuery v1.1.2 for their DOM, Ajax & animation needs: Joe Stump: Technical Background of Diggs New Comment System Joe Stump is a software developer at Digg and one of the… Continue Reading

CF8 Ajax: Quick Tip for Shrinking the Page Size

In chatting with Adobe, one thing that came out was that their Ajax indicator (the spinning activity indicator) had not be optimized. Since this is just an animated .gif file, its an easy replacement. Just go to \CFIDE\scripts\ajax\images and replace… Continue Reading

CF8 Ajax Feed Reader Redux

There's been a lot of discussion recently about the page size being generated by the CF8 Ajax components and most of it has been really positive with Adobe assuring us that they're working on minimizing the YUI, Ext and Spry… Continue Reading

ColdFusion 8 Ajax Controls: A Little Thought Can Save Your Butt

ColdFusion 8 is looking very hot and its gotten a tremendous amount of much deserved attention. Having done Ajax development with other tools, I'm obviously very interested in the Ajax widget tags included in CF8. Dan Vega had a nice,… Continue Reading

SECURITY PATCH Issued for FireBug

A security patch has been issued by Joe Hewitt for FireBug, the popular FireFox extension for debugging JavaScript and Ajax applications. More details can be found here: http://www.getfirebug.com/blog/2007/04/04/security-update/

Pulling the jQuery Ajax Library Source File Directly from jQuery Servers

Directly from the jQuery Blog: “As a project, weve never discouraged first time users from using the jQuery Source Code straight from their personal site; it helps to get new users started with development, without having to worry about keeping… Continue Reading

Holy Cow! Another CF Big-Wig Using the jQuery Ajax Library

First it was Rob Gonda. Next, Joe Danziger saw the light. Then Dan Switzer joined the fray. Then I find Tony Petruzzi doing some VERY cool stuff. Now super rock star ColdFusion expert Ben Nadel has joined the growing list… Continue Reading

Ajax Wins Developer.com's Technology of the Year

Ajax continues to prove its importance in development circles as attested by the technology winning Developer.com's Technology of the Year for the second year in a row. It was followed by: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Ruby on Rails Ubuntu Virtualization… Continue Reading

Wanna get up to speed in jQuery, the Ajax/JS library?

With all of this talk about the jQuery library, I sometimes forget to mention the resources that make getting up to speed in this great library very easy. Two great sites have been built to help introduce developers to the… Continue Reading