ColdFusion: How Misconceptions Continue to Plague It

For the love of God, it REALLY gets old. I jet on over to the Smith Project Digg posting to Digg it up and read more about it. As I look through the comments, it just refreshes my memory as… 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

Adobe to Release PDF to Standards Body

In what I consider a great move, Adobe has released the PDF specification for acceptance as a ISO standard: Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization I really think they needed to do this to help circumvent Microsoft's push of… Continue Reading

jQuery Ajax/JS API Browser Tool Released

The jQuery team continues to pump out additional tools and resources to make development using jQuery easy, efficient and productive. The latest addition to jQuery's growing list of tools is project team lead Jorn Zaefferer's new jQuery API Browser. http://jquery.bassistance.de/api-browser/… Continue Reading

jQuery Ajax Library Maintenance Release Announced

The jQuery team has announced a maintenance release for jQuery v1.1 that addresses several issues found post v1.1. Here's the email from the project team: “The bug fix release for 1.1 is now ready for all to use. There were… Continue Reading

Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition

hahahahahahaha, too funny: Microsoft Firefox 2007/ Hurry and check the site before Redmond shuts them down.

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

jQuery Ajax AutoComplete Redone by Dan G. Switzer

Dan G. Switzer of qForms fame has recently been cranking up code using the jQuery Ajax/JS library. He's released a refactored version of Dylan Verheul's jQuery Autcomplete plug-in which: Supports local data array (can now use w/out AJAX). Limit dropdown… Continue Reading

AjaxCFC Updated by Rob Gonda

AjaxCFC, the most widely used Ajax/ColdFusion component library for ColdFusion, has been updated to use jQuery v1.1, the latest release of the popular Ajax/JS library. Several updates have been done to logging, error trapping, security checks, constructor methods, and serialization… Continue Reading