Posted on July 4, 2008 at 12:36 AM in
ColdFusion
One of the questions I have always asked myself when writing an application that sends out emails (most applications do) is: "should I write HTML or plain text emails?" As you know, most but not all email clients support HTML emails, and still other users disable HTML emails for one reason or another.
"Yeah," you say, "that's why ColdFusion has the 'type' attribute on the <cfmail> tag." And you are absolutely correct in saying so. But that doesn't solve the problem of how to write the email in your code; it only solves the problem of how to send the email.
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Posted on June 25, 2008 at 4:03 AM in
Transfer, ColdFusion
Wow! I cannot believe it has been 14 months since I last posted about Transfer. One would think that this was a result of me not using Transfer, which is actually not the case. I've been using it for nearly a year-and-a-half now, but I've been so busy with other things that I just haven't found the time to really dig into it the way that I want (need?) to. Well, diggin' time has arrived.
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Posted on June 22, 2008 at 1:39 AM in
General, ColdFusion
Okay, I admit it. I'm a WinDoze guy. I even have the property patch. Well, kinda. When it comes to me being the server administrator, it has to be WinDoze. Sorry boys and girls, but I don't come from a network background, or even a programming background, so I like point-and-click. I'm comfy in that realm. Start talking shells and all of those other "big words" that pertain to *nix, and I'm lost. That said, I am looking to justify the expense for my first MacBook Pro and/or iMac - but we'll save that for another time and post.
Last night I suddenly realized that I *really* needed to either (a) upgrade my development machine to WinDoze Server, (b) purchase some sort of add-on software, or (c) load Apache. Since Apache is free, I opted for (c). Here is a (somewhat) quickie overview of why I needed to make a move, a couple of links that I followed to get it done, and a couple of "gotcha" notes.
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Posted on June 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM in
ColdFusion, ColdBox
Luis Majano announced that ColdBox 2.6 RC2 is now available. Check out the following diagram of this awesome application platform:
If you're still on the fence about ColdBox, I urge you to download and take a serious look.
The other day I announced the v2 release of the Uni-Form Custom Tag Library, which contains a number of enhancements and jQuery plugin integrations. One thing *very* important detail that I forgot to mention:
If you are using the Validation plugin, you *must* use jQuery 1.2.2 or higher.
As long as you are using the current release you are fine, since it is at 1.2.6 as of this posting. If you use anything 1.2.1 or earlier, you will have all sorts of JavaScript errors being thrown.
Update
This post only applies to those of you who are loading jQuery on your own. If you are relying on the tags to load jQuery for you, jQuery-1.2.6 is the release that is loaded. :-)
Posted on June 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM in
ColdFusion, ColdBox
Back in the ColdBox 2.5.1 release, a new feature was added: persist. Think of it as a sort of "flash memory", allowing your application to "remember" event variables when moving the user to the next event. I was recently asked about this feature, so I figured I would make a quick post about it in an effort to help more people.
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Posted on June 10, 2008 at 5:20 PM in
ColdFusion, ColdBox
Amcom Technology, a software development house based in the San Francisco Bay Area just announced their move to ColdBox. As an avid ColdBox supporter and user myself, I am happy to hear of more people coming on board.
In his announcement, Tariq Ahmed, Manager of Product Development, made the following statement:
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It's been almost six months now since I released v1 of the library, so I figured it was high time I make time to add some enhancements. Here's a quick overview of the new features:
- Integrated dependencies
- Integrated support for the following jQuery plugins
- Date Picker
- Time Entry
- Input Masking
- Validation
- Path Configuration
Let's look at some of the new goodies in more detail...
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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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