Posted on May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM in
Rants
Okay, so it's the end of the school year and most schools either have hosted or are about to host their End-of-the-Year Awards Ceremony. This is a great opportunity to recognize the outstanding achievements of their students for the school year. Tonight was the Junior High Awards Ceremony for our school district.
When I was a kid these awards ceremonies were pretty cool, and truly focused on students that went above and beyond the call of duty and really did special things. But apparently here in the 21st century things are different; so different, in fact, that if you showed up to school at least once during the year and were breathing, you're a "Star"! WTF?!?!?!
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Posted on May 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM in
ColdFusion, ColdBox
Awhile back I posted about ColdCourse Integration in ColdBox, and how easy it is to use SES (or "pretty") URLs with ColdBox. Today I was taking a peek at the What's New in ColdBox 2.6 documentation, and down at the very bottom I spotted something that seems so trivial, but is so totally cool that I wanted to be sure to highlight it.
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I've mentioned before that I <3 ColdBox and that I <3 jQuery. Independently of one another, they are just a pleasure to work with. Today I decided to write my first-ever jQuery-powered AJAX functionality inside a ColdBox-powered application. It's ridiculously simple to do - one might even say sinful. So easy in fact, that I decided to post a quick "tutorial" on how to handle a pretty common task with ColdBox and jQuery.
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Posted on May 16, 2008 at 4:26 PM in
ColdFusion
Okay, so I said that I would try and post about the various cf.Objective() sessions. Key word: try. As you've probably figured out, I didn't manage to do so. However, this year I did make it to all the morning sessions that I intended to make it to, which certainly was not the case last year. No, not hung over. I'm nocturnal by nature, and I'm usually in bed asleep in the morning hours, so making it to the morning sessions is a helluva chore.
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