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Archive for March, 2008

ColdFusion developers have quite a few options when wanting to access full help documentation for ColdFusion 8 including:

Livedocs
CFQuickdocs
ColdFusionDocs.com
CFDocs on AIR
CFML Reference Docs for the iPod
ColdFusion 8 Help Files for Eclipse

The ’source’ of all these is the same (Livedocs) so which do you go with? Funnily enough the offical Adobe Livedocs is probably the last one [...]

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More news on the differences between the commercial and open source offerings for Blue Dragon on Vince Bonfanti’s blog as well as the New Atlanta forums;
“The free open source edition of BlueDragon/J2EE will be fully featured, with only minor differences to remove dependencies on commercial libraries.”
Vince elaborated more on the NA Product forums:
There will be [...]

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Another tip from my Prototype travels…
‘Observers’ let you create a listener for a user event, for example on a form submission you may want to run some client side validation before actually submitting the form.
Of course you can add ‘onsubmit()’ in your <form> tag, but isn’t it much nicer to keep your markup clean of [...]

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* Note: These examples reference the Prototype JavaScript framework.
Often I find that I want to load content onto a page but have its default view state as hidden until a user defined event makes it appear.
The problem is if I hide an element using a linked CSS file (with a class or Id style of [...]

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Better YouTube Firefox Extension

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This is cool, a little Firefox addon from the guys at lifehacker to make your youtube experience a little richer
It basically combines several Greasemonkey scripts together into a single package.
Features include:

smartly enlarges videos for better viewing
hides user comments
declutters the page
disables autoplay

Download and install the addon, restart Firefox and you’re set to go. To [...]

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