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PSA: Facebook App ColdFusion Showstopper 3 years ago

I am in the R&D stages of building a Facebook application for my employer ( DealerPeak ). I just spent hours trying to figure out why I couldn't get my tab page to show up when being loaded by Facebook. I was getting the following error: Errors while loading page from application Parse …
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Textarea Auto Grow 3 years ago

I have seen instances where I'm on a form on a website and there is some mechanism by which the textarea automatically grows to fit what I'm typing. I've also seen this not work too well, and eventually half the bottom line is cut off or the bottom of the textarea has expanded further …
keywords bottom line, instances, javascript, javascript function, simple solution, web 2.0

PSA: Browser Back Button Differences 3 years ago

At work, we had some old display code that was supposed to prevent users from submitting the same form twice. In the form's submit event, there was a window scoped boolean being set. If validation errors needed to be displayed, then the boolean was un-set. And at the very top of the …
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CFUnited 2009: Adam Lehman - ColdFusion 9, What's New 3 years ago

First up was Server.cfc . However that is a bit of a misnomer. You can actually point the administrator to any CFC. That CFC simply needs to have an onServerStart() method. This should be quite a boon for getting sites that have an expensive (read "slow") first request all spun up and …

CFUnited 2009: Peter Bell - Requirements and Estimating 3 years ago

Peter looks at projects in roughly 3 categories. Configuration Customization Exploration $50,000 - no spec (hard to even define scope) Configuration These projects are all about efficiency. You will need to simplify the specs for these types of projects. You will need to have/use …

Using argumentCollection And Overriding Arguments 3 years ago

I ran some test code the other day just to make sure that I correctly understand how arguments passed in to functions in CFML work. If you know everything there is to know about functions and arguments in ColdFusion, then feel free not to read the rest of this. But, if you're …

How To: Prototype Resize Handle 4 years ago

This is just a short post to share some JavaScript that I wrote to be able to add a drag corner to an html element to make it resizable. I did this using prototype.js. As an example the two divs below have been made resizable. (Go ahead. Drag the bottom right corner around.) Div …

Die Spammers Die! (Painfully Please) 4 years ago

My blog has been absolutely hammered with comment spam lately. If any of you were subscribed to any of those comments and were forwarded the offensive spam, I am very sorry. Fortunately, one of the bots wasn't submitting something correctly. So, instead of getting a few thousand spam …

Real World AJAX Presentation Code 4 years ago

Last night I presented my "Real World AJAX" talk to PDXRIA (our local Portland Adobe User Group). I said I would post the code. So, here it is! (Download link below) I have included the PDF slide presentation too. There are not a lot of slides.

Database Abstraction With Illudium and onMissingMethod() 4 years ago

This is the long overdue wrap-up post in my series about using Illudium outside it's Flex front end as a service to generate CFCs. To recap: I explained why I was doing this and with these tools. Then I showed how you could call Illudium outsid