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Ask Ben: Dynamically Adding File Upload Fields To A Form Using jQuery
So seeing as you are on a jQuery kick I have a simple code request from you. Very simple, I want to allow file uploads in a form. I want it to start with 1 file upload option displayed, and then if the user clicks on a link, another one upload is displayed below that one. I want it all to be dynamic and create the html on the fly and use dynamic data. For example: On Load: <div id="files"> <div id="file1" class="row"> 1: <input ... Read More »
October 7, 2008 09:37 AM
Welcome to CFM-Applications.Com
It has been a very long time since I have last updated this blog. In the last 7 years many life changes and events have happened. I am fortunate to be blessed with a great fiance and a fantastic soon to be step son.I have moved to Sunny Phoenix Arizona from Clearwater Florida. I have built two houses, sold one and am making a home out of the other. I have also started a business that I have been working on for many years at StylishGiftWare.Com, head on over and take a look.I look forward to r
October 7, 2008 06:51 AM
ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 6, 2008
Three new projects and three updates this week. The question I have this afternoon, unrelated to ColdFusion and open source, is, do we get to celebrate DOW 10,000 all over again when this eventually comes back around? As a follow up, how stupid do James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, authors of the now infamous DOW 36,000, seem in retrospect? They probably haven't skipped a beat and are rushing out a book called "DOW 1,000" to cash in on the recent decline. Anyway, back to the topic at hand...
New
October 7, 2008 05:26 AM
ValidateThis! - An Object Oriented Approach to Validations
I have written in the past about the approach I take to building an object oriented model layer for my ColdFusion applications. For the most part I was happy with the way I designed things and the code that I wrote. There was one area, however, that I was never really that pleased with; validations.
So I spent the past several weeks working on a whole new approach to doing validations, and I am now ready to share it with anyone who is interested. Because I intend for this to become
October 7, 2008 04:52 AM
SQL And Regular Expression Books Published In Chinese
My Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes and Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions In 10 Minutes have both been published in Chinese by Turing Book. Links are on the books pages. And here is a full list of all book translations.
October 7, 2008 01:22 AM
KinkyTwits - My ColdFusion And jQuery Powered Twitter Client
Last week, I had mentioned on Twitter that I was gonna try to build my own Twitter Client for yucks (trying to attain true Geek status). I came up with " KinkyTwits ". I put a good 12 or 13 hours into this over the weekend and I think I came up with some cool stuff. It's definitely rough and the code really needs to be organized much better, but it's working as a really basic Twitter client. ... Read More »
October 6, 2008 11:16 PM
Flash On The Beach 2008 - Day 3 (updated)
How do you empty 2 bars in a night? Put on a Flash conference in a beautiful location, give attendees inspiring sessions and then throw a party where they can network until early morning. Up until now, FOTB08 has been a blast and day 3 was no exception. It also featured the most discussed session in the entire conference.
October 6, 2008 10:53 PM
FOTB 2008 Conference reports
It's that time again for the community to gather in Brighton. For three full days, 1050 attendees will enjoy inspiring sessions, networking and countless conversations over british beer. Many had arrived 2-3 days early, just to make sure they had time to party and catch up with friends before the conference kicked off. This just doesn't happen on other conferences and the community feel at FOTB is just amazing!
October 6, 2008 10:53 PM
Alagad Needs a Senior Flex and ColdFusion Developer
Alagad is hiring a Flex developer! I'm hoping to find one extremely talented Flex developer to join my team. This person also needs to be able to do advanced ColdFusion development, if needed. The person I'm looking for will have a lot of strong experience with enterprise development. So, if you're a senior developer who wants to work from home, please waste no time in applying. Here are some finer details of what I'm looking for: Languages My team works primarily with the Adobe toolse
October 6, 2008 11:38 AM
Flash On The Beach 2008 - Day 3
How do you empty 2 bars in a night? Put on a Flash conference in a beautiful location, give attendees inspiring sessions and then throw a party where they can network until early morning. Up until now, FOTB08 has been a blast and day 3 was no exception. It also featured the most discussed session in the entire conference.
October 6, 2008 08:06 AM
Tilt Shift Video
A Tilt Shift Fake is a way of altering a photograph by artificially faking a very narrow depth of field. Since we usually see such narrow depth of field in very close up shots, our minds interpret see these photographs as close up shots of miniature models. It helps to saturate the colors as well.
Keith [...]
October 6, 2008 07:55 AM
Simple cookie fix for session.put() error with pyamf shell after upgrading the Google App Engine SDK
On the off chance that you are running app-engine-patch and have started getting errors similar toâ?¦
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/aral/projects/headconference/trunk/shell/gateway.py", line 218, in evalCode
session.put()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'put'
â?¦while using the PyAMF Shell after upgrading your Google App Engine SDK (to the latest 1.1.5, for example) the [...]
October 6, 2008 07:55 AM
Adobe AIR 2.0 might embeded the new webkit, faster than ever
I might say that Adobe AIR Team will proceed with the new researches of WebKit enginners with their new release.
The new engine SquirrelFish will bring to webkit a faster speed , it’s plus 1.6 faster than actual webkit embeded navigators, and in overall web navigators 35% more fast, which brings webkit the faster browser ever.
See [...]
October 6, 2008 07:54 AM
Flash On The Beach 08 - Fantastic :)
Wow, John Davey really knows how to put together a fantastic conference. FOTB is now in its third year and once again it sold out early.
This was the second time I had attended FOTB and my first time as a speaker, so it was interesting to see how things had changed since 2006. The conference [...]
October 6, 2008 07:48 AM
ColdFusion Positions In England, NC, And DC
Three positions this week:
Unnamed client (Colchester, England) is looking for a ColdFusion developer with at least 2 years of experience. Requirements include CSS and SQL Server skills. Experience with PHP and JSP a plus. Contact Brad King at Fre...
October 5, 2008 10:09 PM
RightContext v0.2.5 is released!
This is a long overdue bug fix release incorporating fixes proposed by users of the RightContext script in the comments for it. It also resolves some issues with non parsing tags and Firefox 3.
To the RightContext Page
RightContext v0.2.5 download [LATEST]
Thanks for all the comments and help!!!
October 5, 2008 06:16 PM
OT: Our Second Car Is An '82 Prelude
I recently purchased and imported a first generation prelude as a gift for my wife. I haven't owned a car of this vintage since the mid 90's, so it took all of one drive from the border home to give me that "first car" love affair with this sweet little ride... [More]
October 5, 2008 06:15 PM
Fireworks, Skinning and Pixel Precision
While browsing the internets I came across some greta tutorials on creating skins for Flex. Currently, there seems to be many options for getting UI designs into Flex and having them look pixel perfect. So, if you’re new to skinning or want look into honing your skills, here’s a couple articles that might help.
Designing a [...]
October 5, 2008 06:15 PM
Randomly sorting Query of Queries
The DB servers all have cool little tricks to randomly sort the records, for example on SQL Server it is simply order by NewID(). Trouble is I had a small table with a very limited number of records in it and needed them randomly sorted for each pag...
October 5, 2008 06:14 PM
Learning Flex 15 Minutes at a Time
I’ve discovered another great source of videos for those learning Flex. Jeffry Houser, producer of The Flex Show, has an ongoing video series titled, “Fifteen Minutes With Flex“.  The following episodes are available now:
Episode 1 - Setting Up a Flex Project
Episode 2 - Using the Flex Debugger
Episode 3 - Understanding Data Binding
Episode 4 - Creating [...]
October 5, 2008 06:12 PM
Running on Railo - Breaking Radio Silence
I moved my blog to a new VPS and it is running on Railo 3.0 Community. Hell YEAH!!! I have a back log of blarg entries to get posted as well. I also posting a bunch of contributions to the community with more to come. Uploaded so far are - My CFEclipse Snippets - Some UDFs - CFC Generator Lite CFC Generator Lite is a HTML front end for creating cfc's for an entire database in one shot using Brian Rinaldi's outstanding Illudium PU-36 Code Generator. In the pipe:
October 5, 2008 06:12 PM
Flash on the Beach Trailer
Meant to mention this earlier, but Rob Chiu, aka The Ronin, did this excellent trailer for Flash on the Beach this year. I’ve been a fan of Rob since I met him at the Media Elements in NL in 2004. Followed his flickr stream since then. He’s the kind of photographer that makes me think, [...]
October 5, 2008 10:14 AM
Text sizing and accessibility
I was at Jeff Croftâ??s session on Elegant Web Typography at Web Directions South when he talked about font sizing. He unwittingly caused a bit of a silent outcry, sending the Twitter back channel crazy, when he mentioned that he doesnâ??t uses pixels to size text.
His reasoning was that people who need to [...]
October 5, 2008 10:14 AM
Using Apache and mod_rewrite to correct alternative hostname with subdomains
The title is a long way of saying I have domain.com and I also have domainS.com, plural, in case people mistype the name. If someone hits my site as domainS.com, I want to automatically correct it to be domain.com to maintain my branding. This is pretty straightforward to fix with your <VirtualHost> and [...]
October 5, 2008 08:37 AM
First Public Release Of Skweegee!! Took Long Enough!
Well, its finally here! The first public release of Skweegee has been posted to the Riaforge project site. Version 0.4.0 has been in private beta for just over 2 weeks and I feel like its finally ready for public consumption.
Keep in mind that its still a little early on so there are some obvious functions missing but it is very usable. The biggest thing missing is the wiki, since I decided to pull it from this release, but will be added back in by the 0.5.0 release. Skweegee.com is
October 5, 2008 08:36 AM
Flash CS4 - cool improved project panel
There are many interesting new features in this release of Flash CS4. Naturally 3D effects, IK and new animation timeline draw a lot of attention. However, my favourite is the improved Project Panel which for the first time makes me want to use. First it is very easy for me to understand what it is [...]
October 5, 2008 08:35 AM
My first Bungee Jump
I went for my first ever Bungee Jump today, I thought I’d post the video here. By the way, it was an absolutely amazing experience. Having a free fall from such a height and then getting pulled back up right when you are about to reach the ground level, WOW!. I was so nervous, the [...]
October 5, 2008 07:08 AM
Not been blogging much, where have I been?
I came to the realisation the other day, that my blog has reallybecome almost totally announcement based.&nbsp; A series of presentationannouncements, eSeminars, ColdFusion User Groups, Code Releases andvarious other &#39;hey! this is what is going on&#39; posts.It used to be chock full of weird and interesting things you could dowith ColdFusion, and combining with the Java layer that sits underne...
October 5, 2008 07:04 AM
Flex Has Forced Me To Think Differently About My Code
I have been enjoying my dip into Flex so far. Sometimes you don't notice habits until you have to change them. One rut I've gotten into over the years is the procedural way web-based apps have gotten be thinking about programming.
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October 5, 2008 07:03 AM
Jonathan Harris at Flash on the Beach
I’ve been doubting whether or not I should blog about this, seeing controversy seemed to me what he was after, and this post would only be adding to that.
Jonathan Harris’ session at Flash on the Beach blew me away with some of the most inspirational art projects I’ve seen to date, I was genuinely moved [...]
October 5, 2008 07:01 AM
SDK 1.1.5 released - App Engine development speeding up?
Google updated the App Engine SDK to version 1.1.5 today (release notes).
Among the new features, the one that really caught my eye was: "Sped up the datastore stub." Although I didn't notice a speed up in the initial start-up time of the dev server with a large datastore, but it does seem that my [...]
October 5, 2008 03:15 AM
Flash on the Beach 2008 Recap
What can you say about John Davey except that the guys knows how to put on a good conference. He also sounds a lot like David Brent which means that almost everything he says is funny. This was my second time at Flash on the Beach and this year I actually got to stay for [...]
October 5, 2008 03:09 AM
Two-way Data Binding spec added to Gumbo Specs page
Another new spec has been posted to the Flex SDK Gumbo page: Two-way Data Binding.
For the full list of posted specs, check out the Gumbo Flex SDK homepage on opensource.adobe.com, or check out my post from yesterday: ASDoc in MXML spec added to Gumbo Specs page.
October 4, 2008 11:03 AM
Forensic Architecture
Duane Nickull has a new post that shares what he has learned from participating in 4 large architectural groups including the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee, the W3C Web Services Architecture working group, the United Nations CEFACT eBusiness SOA project and ebXML as well as how these lessons will be applied to an upcoming book on Web 2.0 written by Duane, Tim O’Reilly, Dion Hinchcliffe and James Governor.
Here is a brief intro:
Forensic Architectu
October 4, 2008 11:02 AM
Public Service Dept: The Blogger Challenge for Public Schools
At InsideRIA, we don't make a habit of going off topic, so forgive the quick digression in the name of greater causes:
O'Reilly has signed on to the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge, inviting our readers to join us in supporting a range of tech-oriented projects in schools.
A colleague of mine at O'Reilly, Sara Winge, said it very well: "I'm always surprised and moved by how modest the teachers' requests are, and by what a difference fulfilling them can make to their students' lives and le
October 4, 2008 11:02 AM
After Effects Tutorial: Reusing bits and nesting
I've had this comp kind of worked out for some time, but haven't had the time to write it up. Given that it's pretty easy, I've decided to let it out and hopefully get you intruiged and dive into After Effects a bit.  If nothing else, use the attached project file and substitue your own footage or stills.
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Some AE fun with Trapcode's 3D Stroke
If After Effects is your thing, then you have a ton of plugins and already know about 3D Stroke.  If you're into dabbling, then you'll want to check this plugin out as a trial at your first opportunity.
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Very cool GWT application
When I see GWT web apps like this one, it seems like we are seeing a glimpse of the future and the way web apps will be built. This particular one uses the GwtPHP framework.
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
iPhone Web Apps running at full screen
I am so happy that the NDA mess is over! Clancy has written about how you can have your iPhone Web app run in full screen and has a demo app that shows it off:
PLAIN TEXT
HTML:
 
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<meta names="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent" />
 
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Vista / OS X Mash-up Created with GWT on PHP
Here's an interesting link for a Friday. Viktor Zeman on Quality Unit sent us a link to "PostAffiliateXpress", some boring IT application with an interesting interface and an even more intriguing back-end.
The UI combines a Vista-like "Start" menu along with an OS X-like dock (using everyone's favorite fish-eye widget). It also has a built-in widget [...]
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Thinking about the difference between frameworks
I got to meet Aaron Newton at The Ajax Experience, and he is a thinker. He was really taking in the various talks, and interactions, and you could tell that he was trying to work out various angles on the frameworks. What makes them different? What makes them popular? Where are they going?
He wrote a [...]
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Practical Functional JavaScript
Oliver Steele gave a great talk at The Ajax Experience this week on Practical Functional JavaScript.
For his talk, he ended up creating a samples application where you can run the code directly, very similar to what John Resig did in Learn JavaScript.
The samples take you through JavaScript world, stopping for:
Callbacks
Functions
Closures
Idioms
Throttling
Caching
Retry
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Life: The game in Canvas
Kyle McGregor took a look at the JavaScript games for Life out there and decided to write a Canvas version that ends up being a lot snappier. The entire game is pretty small:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
 
var counterface = 0;
var oInstance;
var Game = Class.create();
 
Game.prototype = {
        'working': false,
        'map': ',
      [...]
October 4, 2008 11:01 AM
Logotrend: Globes
This article from Creative Review explores Barclay’s new global brand, and it’s similarities to other spherical brands that express world view via the globe.
October 4, 2008 11:00 AM
Enterprise Distribution of Adobe AIR
On multiple occasions, I’ve sat down with developers in large companies and government agencies to help them explore Adobe AIR as a potential application platform. The conversation almost always leads to questions about deploying AIR enterprise-wide on machines with various security restrictions, some of which are completely locked down.
Peter Albert and Michael Labriola from Digital [...]
October 4, 2008 11:00 AM
Forensic Architecture and other lessons from SOA land.
Forensic Architecture! What is it? I use this term to describe the process of describing the architecture of something after it has been built. It is a largely frustrating, cumbersome process yet I seem to have made a career out of it. Let me explain.Note: These are my own views and lessons I have learned. I have greatly enjoyed working with all the talented minds in the past and am looking forward to working with more in the future. The sum of all these experiences has made me what I am t
October 4, 2008 11:00 AM
The FOTB08 carnival leaves town
And it is with a mixture of sadness, exhaustion, and joy to have been host to such a great many Flash friends from all over the world.
The conference was pretty damn amazing, and it was incredible to catch up with my great friends Mario, Ralph, Keith, Rob, Jeremy, Carlos, Chris and the many, MANY [...]
October 4, 2008 10:33 AM
Are You Full As A Goog?
