I recently ran into a problem of trying to align the height of 2 columns (col-left and col-right). I know this can be achieved using CSS in most circumstances and I would always advise this path or solution to the problem. However just CSS this time, was not going to get the job done. Luckily [...]
I haven’t posted on my blog for a while now as it’s been a little hectic on the work front. I did however feeel it necessary to post something about this superb javascript framework called JQuery. In their own words this is what JQuery is:
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML [...]
I have been looking into developing some sample applications for Apple’s iPhone. I discovered a very nice example application that was written by a colleague of mine from TAG Worldwide. Malcolm Barclay has written a London underground Tube Status application for the iPhone. (Screenshot to the left).
The concept and software is very simple yet effective [...]
The answer to the question above is very much a question of security. Facing the same question at the moment, I believe it would be best to move all CFC’s into a globally accessible shared mapping. From here the CFC’s can then be divided by project or use, similar to Java notation for a package. [...]
I stumbled across this excellent video tutorial by Bruce Eckel and James Ward on Adobe, that shows an example of a Flex application working with Hibernate and XFire. Take a look, as it makes some very interesting learning on how this can be done as well as proving that ColdFusion doesn’t always have to be the [...]
This is a very handy site to visit for more information on a very popular Adobe Flex framework called “Cairngorm”.
If you seriously want to develop wide scale (and importantly maintainable!!) applications, then you definitely need to check this site out. There is some excellent learning material and superb diagrams.
Visit the Cairngorm Docs site and start [...]
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Remember the grief us ColdFusion guys always get from the PHP world about PHP being all things great and marvellous. Well PHP people we have an answer ColdFusion 8 will now allow you to run PHP functions and Ruby inside a CF template.
How is this possible?
ColdFusion 8 uses Java 6 [...]
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, .NET, and other languages.Microsoft Silverlight looks like a good challenger to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
It will be very interesting to keep [...]