QuackFuzed [ Ramblings of a Con..ColdFuzed Mind ]

Getting Google Apps Calendar Events to Show Publicly

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:20:00 -0500

I have been struggling to get a Google Apps calendar to show the event details publicly. All I could ever get it to do was show up as "Busy". Thankfully I just found this post that gave me the secret ingredient that I was missing. Since it was such a huge help for me, I decided I would pass it along. Read the post

cfUniForm v4.1 - Minor Release Update to Uni-Form 1.4

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:21:00 -0500

I just released cfUniForm 4.1 on RIAForge. As far as cfUniForm is concerned, this is a minor release done for the specific purpose of updating cfUniForm with the latest release (1.4) of the Uni-Form markup and CSS spec. On the other hand, for those who have been seeking themed CSS with cfUniForm, you will be happy to know that this release is for that exact purpose. [More]

cfUniForm: "Rate Me"

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:56:00 -0500

jQuery's star rating plugin makes it simple to add a "Rate Me" interface to your application. Combine it with cfUniForm v4.0, and now it's ridiculously simple to add a star rating field (or ten) to any form. [More]

cfUniForm Quick Tip: Struct or String

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:32:00 -0500

One of the improvements in the latest cfUniForm release is a change in behavior for the 'pluginSetup' attribute on the field tag. Even though this change does not break any old code, I still wanted to write a brief explanation of what the change is, why I made it, and how to make use of it. [More]

cfUniForm v.4.0 - Leaner, Meaner, More Features - Just Plain Ol' Better

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:44:00 -0500

WOW! It has been a year already since cfUniForm v3.0 was released. I guess it's about time I made some serious upgrades, eh? Well, after a year of a few minor updates, I present to you cfUniForm v4.0, a major release with a number of new features and other updates to make it leaner and meaner. [More]

cfUniForm - Right-Aligned Labels and No Asterisk

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:16:00 -0500

I sometimes get asked questions like "hey, man, how can I right-align labels with cfUniForm?" or "how can I change colors?", etc. The answer is: override the CSS! That's the entire purpose of Cascading Style Sheets. Here's a quick example of how to override a couple of default behaviors with the Uni-Form specification (which is what cfUniForm is a wrapper for). [More]

Integrating cfUniForm and ValidateThis

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:16:00 -0500

As noted in the cfUniForm documentation, Bob Silverberg's ValidateThis validation framework plays quite nicely with cfUniForm. However, there is one "gotcha" that I have been meaning to blog about for awhile now, but keep forgetting. [More]

cfUniForm v3.5 Released

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:39:00 -0500

I have just released cfUniForm v3.5, which can be downloaded from the riaforge project page. This latest version includes a couple of minor bug fixes as well as a new 'enctype' attribute for your form tag, which allows you to create your own upload fields without relying on the built-in type="file" field. Be sure to check out the new multiple uploads demo as well as the updated FAQs page. A big "thank you!" goes to Byron Raines for providing the use case for the multiple uploads (one I had not thought of) as well as submitting a couple of patches for bugs (related to providing an ID for individual fields).

Google Assists Me In Eradicating Internet Explorer

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:25:00 -0500

When I am elected President, the very first order of business on the agenda, to be established by Executive Order within 30 minutes of taking office, is to make ownership and/or use of Internet Explorer a crime, carrying a mandatory death sentence on the first offense. IE is one of the (if not *the*) biggest steaming piles of crap to ever make it to mass production. IE is, by my estimation, the single-most cause of web developer headaches on the planet. [More]

dynamicField: My First "Official" jQuery Plugin

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:48:00 -0500

Anyone that knows me knows that I hate doing UI work. Why? Because I suck at it. Graphics, design, and layout are definitely not among my talents. Which is why I love jQuery so much. I can write a little bit of JavaScript - very little, in fact - add a plugin or two, and voila! I have a nice looking user interface for my application. After using a few very handy form-related jQuery plugins and integrating them into my cfUniForm library, I decided it was time I go ahead and release a plugin of my own. [More]

Learning CF9: Buh Bye Comment-Based Attributes

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:32:00 -0500

In my previous entry I discussed the use of comment-based attributes for the new all-script CFCs in CF9 and what it actually takes to make them work as advertised. As Andy Matthews pointed out in a comment on the post, they aren't technically "comments" in a traditional sense, but rather are JavaDoc notations. After spending a bit of time weighing the arguments both for and against the use of comments as executable code, and playing with using them and not using them, I have conclusively sided with the "comments as executable code are pure evil" group. Why? [More]

Learning CF9: Why Don't My Comment-Based Attributes Work?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:08:00 -0500

If you're like me, you absolutely love CF9's new script-based CFCs. I recently re-worked a very simple class and went from 111 lines of code in my old tag-based version down to 66 lines of code in the new all-script version. Nice! But I was having trouble getting comment-based attributes for the component, properties, and functions to actually work. [More]

Learning CF9: Are Mixins Supported?

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:57:00 -0500

One of the "tricks" I have used for a long time now is to use a mixin with an object. For example, I have a collection of UDFs that are related to date and time manipulation. Certain classes get all or some of these mixed in like so: [More]

Learning CF9: Implicit Getters and Setters

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:50:00 -0500

One of the (many) really nice features of CF9 is the addition of implicit getters and setters for CFCs. While I love having a concrete API, I am learning to love this idea more and more because of the saved keystrokes. [More]

Learning CF9: Installing CF9 Alongside CF8

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:28:00 -0500

In the first post of what I hope turns out to be a series of posts about CF9, I wanted to give a couple of tips on getting CF8 and CF9 running alongside one another. It is really nice to be able to have both running simultaneously. [More]