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My shining star needs to stop growing up on me! These days, I wish kids came with a Stop Growing Up button that I can push anytime I want so that I can enjoy the little things that come with each new phase of their lives. Beach Trip 2007 Beach Trip 2010
keywords family, fatherhood
I was writing some code this morning for a demo application, and I kept getting an error in one part of my Flex code and I just couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on. Turned out, it was a symptom of how many different function declaration conventions I have to deal with. It [...]
keywords conventions, demo application, development, errata, flex code, function, hell, languages, programming
It’s been a bit hectic at work in the last 2 years. Well, perhaps hectic isn’t the perfect word, but it’s close. Since I started working here, we’ve gone through two complete development technology stack switches. Back in the halcyon days of 2007, I had the unenviable task of shoring up some very …
keywords .net, adobe, asp, coldfusion, errata, flex, java, javascript, stack, switches
I was browsing around the Sencha site this morning and saw that they announced the beta release of 3.3 which includes two major new components: PivotGrids Calendar While those will garner much attention, the ugly stepchild mentioned at the bottom of the press release is also very cool. The …
keywords beta, beta release, calendar, extjs, javascript, press release, sencha
I’ll admit that I’m very fortunate. I work in a field that is my true passion. I am a technologist, and more specifically, a software architect. I also work for a great company that allows me to be creative, efficient, and impactful. However, a recent article I read just made me realize …
keywords family, fatherhood, passion, recent article, software architect, technology
A few weeks ago I was at a gathering of like-minded technologists in my area, and I struck up a quick (thankfully) conversation with a fellow who, in all seriousness, labeled himself a Social Media Ninja. He just let it hang there for a second, waiting for the expected, and inevitable, question, …
keywords errata, fellow, ninja, seriousness, social media, tool
In an ExtJS ComboBox, it’s fairly easy to implement a search feature where given the user’s entry, you can return a list of possible matches. I outline this mechanism in Sencha ExtJS: Simple Autocomplete Example. However, recent user feedback was, “If I know the unit I’m looking for, why can’t I …
keywords autocomplete, combobox, extjs, javascript, search feature
A Sencha ExtJS EditorGridPanel automatically visually marks a cell as dirty when a user modifies the value, but that’s it. If you want to know if a row is dirty and take an action based upon that knowledge, you’re on your own. Since I needed this functionality, I took a stab at it today, and [...]
keywords datagrid, extjs, functionality, sencha, stab
Man this took a long time to figure out. Ok, inside a Sencha ExtJS DataGrid, I have assigned a ComboBox as the editor for one of the columns populated with its own Store of items. I’ve got a ColdFusion Component returning a query object, which is then converted into JSON with the ajaxCFC class. …
keywords combobox, datagrid, extjs, javascript, json, long time, query object, renderer
Several years ago, I designed and developed an application whose scope was far greater than the business folks imagined. Therefore, the timeline was far more compressed than I would have liked. I cut a lot of corners in that project in order to get it out in time, but there was only one hack that …
keywords ajax, career, development, dom, extjs, hack, html, javascript, json, scope, timeline
