Monthly Archives: March 2008
- March 16, 2008
- Options for accessing the ColdFusion 8 documentation
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 EclipseThe ’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 [...]
- March 16, 2008
- Vince Bonfanti and the differences between BlueDragon versions?
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 [...]
- March 11, 2008
- Passing extra parameters to Prototype observer handlers
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 [...]
- March 10, 2008
- Showing and hiding elements with CSS and JavaScript
* 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 [...]
- March 6, 2008
- Better YouTube Firefox Extension
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 autoplayDownload and install the addon, restart Firefox and you’re set to go. To [...]