Ten Years by Rev TheoryI’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 [...]
Archive for October, 2009
New jQuery Plugin: AP Text Counter
Posted: 26th October 2009 by Adam Presley in Development, JavascriptTags: Development, Javascript, jQuery, Plugins
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Sorting Array of Structures with ColdFusion and Groovy
Posted: 25th October 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development, GroovyTags: ColdFusion, Development, Groovy, Java
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 part of [...]
Removing Duplicate Array Items in ColdFusion
Posted: 22nd October 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, DevelopmentTags: ColdFusion, Development, Java
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 [...]
Update v0.2.0 to jQuery Plugin – AP Tags
Posted: 19th October 2009 by Adam Presley in Development, JavascriptTags: Development, Javascript, jQuery
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 [...]
Multiple File Uploads with ColdFusion, jQuery, and Uploadify
Posted: 15th October 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, Development, JavascriptTags: ColdFusion, Development, jQuery, Uploadify
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 [...]
Download of DFW CFUG Observer Pattern Presentation Code
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, DevelopmentTags: CFUG, ColdFusion, Development
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 [...]
My First Entry to the New Adobe Cookbooks
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, DevelopmentTags: Adobe Cookbooks, ColdFusion, Development
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!
DFW ColdFusion Users Group – The Observer Pattern
Posted: 12th October 2009 by Adam Presley in ColdFusion, DevelopmentTags: ColdFusion, Development
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 [...]