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I’m happy to announce my second plugin is up on the jQuery website for download, AP Text Counter. This is a simple plugin that implements a text limiter and counter mechanism in jQuery, complete with customizable options and useful callbacks to know when various events occur. Here are the links, so go give it a [...]

Today I had to work on a bit of code that dealt with trying to tie in merchandising promotions against a shopping cart. This code I’m working with is pretty old, so it’s kind of like trying to make a paper airplane out of the Constitution. :/ My boss is working on one [...]

If you’ve ever had the need to quickly remove duplicate items in an array you might find yourself resorting to the old loop method. This involves looping over the input array, then further looping over a result array, checking to see if you’ve already inserted the input value, and if not, inserting it. That’s a [...]

While using my little tag plugin, AP Tags, I ran into a small snag where I have a dialog box that I am crafting dynamically using jQuery UI. In this dialog I have my tag plugin, and I am calling it every time a different “Edit” link is created. I’m doing this so I can [...]

Today had a need to work with a page that needed to allowed the quick upload of multiple images. I decided pretty quickly that a basic loop of file upload text boxes would be too icky, and did a quick search for what jQuery plugins were available. The first one on the list, and most [...]

Here is a ZIP file containing all of the code for the October 13th presentation on the Observer Pattern at the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User’s Group meeting. The code is not only the code used during the presentation, but the code containing the presentation itself (since I used CFPRESENTATION).

One item of note that was not [...]

I have posted my first entry to Adobe’s new Cookbook today. It is a revisit of my blog entry on creating a more user-friendly psudo-random keys without having to use a UUID (http://blog.adampresley.com/2009/coldfusion-random-id-generation/). Take a look, and give a vote!

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Generate_a_Random_ID-16341.html

Happy coding!

Tomorrow evening on October 13th, 2009 I will be presenting to the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion Users Group the second part of the Head First Design Patterns for CF, otherwise known as the Observer Pattern. There we not only be my presentation, but Luis Majano (creator of ColdBox) will be presenting remotely ON ColdBox. Not to [...]