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Over the past couple of weeks, I've started looking into RequireJS for asynchronous script loading and JavaScript dependency management . While I don't have a lot of experience with such things, there is definitely something about RequireJS that feels really good. All the stuff that I've tried …
The other day, I wanted to see if I could use the java.util.Collections class to help shuffle the values in a ColdFusion query. As I've blogged about before, the Collections class presents a shuffle() method which can be used to randomly sort Java collections (ie. ColdFusion arrays) . And, since …
Lately, I've been struggling to wrap my head around the architecture of event-driven JavaScript applications . While I do love the idea of an evented system, I am finding it harder to see the benefit of using events for bi-directional communication. To me, it seems more natural to observe events …
The more I try to learn about JavaScript application development, the more I tend to think that absolute decoupling is a myth. I know I'm quite inexperienced when it comes to building non-trivial, thick-client applications; but, the idea of being able to simply "assemble" an app using recycled …
Earlier today, in my blog post on using jQuery's $.map() method, I talked about creating a buffer of detached DOM (Document Object Model) nodes . The value-add behind that post was the fact that the DOM nodes remained detached as long as possible; this allows them to be created and configured …
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the appendEach() jQuery plugin that allows you to append an array of jQuery objects to the rendered DOM tree . This plugin was created so that detached DOM (Document Object Model) nodes could be created and configured, en masse, without incurring the …
A while back, I read The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before Your Die by John Izzo . I believe it was recommended to me by a blog reader; but I cannot for the life of me find the recommendation, so sorry for not thanking you. In this book, Dr. John Izzo distills the critical and commonly held …
Over the weekend, I finally got to read ColdFusion ORM: A Guide to Developing Applications Using ColdFusion ORM by John Whish . With the release of ColdFusion 9, Adobe has fully integrated Hibernate - the industry leader in Object Relational Mapping (ORM) - into the core language. With the …
Earlier this week, I started looking into the RequireJS library as a way to manage JavaScript dependencies and modular application design . In addition to the core functionality of loading modules, RequireJS also has a plugin architecture that enables the loading of non-JavaScript data types. …
Yesterday, I was reading an interesting article by Miller Medeiros that compared different types of publish and subscribe mechanisms . Publish and Subscribe (Pub/Sub) is nothing new - if you use jQuery at all, you've probably been using Pub/Sub a lot (even without thinking about it). In the ar …
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