ColdFusion Weekly Podcast 3.07: Flex Frameworks

• jQuery-powered List Sort Control (11/11/07)
• List Reorder Tool
• Member/Set Tool

• Ray Camden's ColdFusion Blog
• ColdFusion Weekly Podcast website
• Ben Forta's Blog
• Digg.com
• Dzone.com
• The Flex Show
• CF/Flex/AIR/Adobe in the News (a Yahoo Pipe)

• The Swartzfager Greyhounds
• About Me

ColdFusion Developers and Social Technologies
barry.b said: just as an update, 12 months since.... another WebDU has come and gone, and Scotch On The Road is i... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
cndrye said: I hear you. I was recently approached by a non-technical member of our team who said bluntly in a m... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Brian Swartzfager said: @Jose That ComputerWorld article was widely considered to be a pretty sad piece of journalism (and n... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Jose Galdamez said: That's too bad about Glen. That's the first time I'd heard that use of CF was losing favor in the go... [more]

Changing Individual CSS Styles with jQuery
Cathy said: This is exactly the info I needed to solve a problem I'm having. Thank you! [more]

Mozilla Announces Jetpack, an API For Writing FireFox Adds-On with jQuery, HTML, and CSS
Rey Bango said: @Brian: Well, you can still build it for those that do even if you don't have a need at the moment. ... [more]

Mozilla Announces Jetpack, an API For Writing FireFox Adds-On with jQuery, HTML, and CSS
Brian Swartzfager said: @Rey: That's an interesting idea, but since I don't have access to any production CF server (save fo... [more]

Mozilla Announces Jetpack, an API For Writing FireFox Adds-On with jQuery, HTML, and CSS
Rey Bango said: Try building a Jetpack to help manage a CF server or perhaps look at CF logs without having to log i... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Mark Ireland said: Yes, rumors of CFs demise are still premature. I last heard it from people who bought the hype abo... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Brian Swartzfager said: @BrianK: I was nearly certain that JHU was using ColdFusion because I've seen Hopkins folks posting... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Brian Klaas said: For what it's worth, some parts of Johns Hopkins use CF pretty extensively. My shop happens to run t... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Wil Genovese said: I like stories like this because it shows we are spreading the word. People will never change their ... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Brian Swartzfager said: @Dan: (Grin) No, I wasn't hiding out at cfObjective(), I simply wasn't there. I'll be at CFUnited, ... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Dan Wilson said: Absolutely. You came across as a guy who couldn't believe your old colleague believed such rubbish.... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Brian Swartzfager said: @Dan: If I in any way implied that I'm worried about the future of ColdFusion/CFML, rest assured tha... [more]

My Encounter With a ColdFusion Detractor
Dan Wilson said: I hear you Brian. Some people have not bothered to update their opinions with the times. I don't sup... [more]

Creating a hyperlink that works with or without AJAX
desouza11 said: It's looking fantastic, awaiting for more post! [more]

New AIR Application: focusTimer
Brian Swartzfager said: @Rick: I have a thing about putting vegetables on my desktop. :) Yours is definitely cooler-looki... [more]

Using jQuery Manipulation Functions (Append, Prepend, After, Before) To Reorder Items
Aidan said: Yep that's right buddy .. when you 'select' items, you are selecting them and doing something with t... [more]

New AIR Application: focusTimer
Rick O said: I wrote a similar app, but it's a bit less customizable than yours: http://rickosborne.org/bl...... [more]

New AIR Application: focusTimer
Brian Swartzfager said: @anthony: That's not a bad idea, but I would personally not want the expired timer to pop out at me,... [more]

New AIR Application: focusTimer
anthony said: That's pretty cool. You should make it appear when time's up. Something like stage.nativeWindow.v... [more]

Some updates on reordering items with jQuery
Bagus said: Hello, Anyone know of a unified solution? Something that allows you to reorder li's within lists, ... [more]

Using jQuery UI Sortables To Move Items From One List To Another
Brian Swartzfager said: @Jon: It didn't seem right to me that it wouldn't work, so I tried it again this morning. Turns ... [more]

Using jQuery UI Sortables To Move Items From One List To Another
Jon said: That's a shame. I am looking for something where my clients can decide what items to have in their f... [more]

Using jQuery UI Sortables To Move Items From One List To Another
Brian Swartzfager said: @Jon: I just did a REALLY quick test of that (where you have a parent <ul> with an <li> ... [more]

Using jQuery UI Sortables To Move Items From One List To Another
Jon said: Could this work as a heiarchy somehow? [more]

Creating a hyperlink that works with or without AJAX
...sara said: this is a really elegant solution [more]

Using jQuery UI Sortables To Move Items From One List To Another
Todd Rafferty said: Great demo. I'll definitely have to play around with this sometime. [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
Ganga Bohara said: I was in need of this type of example to integrate on one of the projects I am working on. Thanks a... [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
Aimee said: Wow, thanks for posting this. I've been looking around for a while on how to do this. [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Brian Swartzfager said: @Jack: You'd have to figure out the best way to store the additional event dates and the countdown ... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Jack said: The CountdownTimer is a great script and I have it working - thank you. Is there any way to get more... [more]

UI Tool: Rearranging Items in a List, jQuery-style!
Joshua Cyr said: This saved me a lot of time thanks! [more]

Problem: No Drag-and-Drop On The iPhone/iPod Touch. Solution: Click-To-Click Move
Brian Swartzfager said: @Jonny: Not sure what you mean by that. The data for the working demo is stored in a database, so ... [more]

Problem: No Drag-and-Drop On The iPhone/iPod Touch. Solution: Click-To-Click Move
Jonny Shaw said: Very Good, but i wonder if you could add some persistance to it? Jonny [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
foneguy said: Perfect - thanks! FYI - I used label id="daysCounter" etc. to format the output and it loo... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Brian Swartzfager said: I've put up a working demo of the script at: http://www.swartzfager.or...... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Brian Swartzfager said: @Steven, @foneguy: I'll try to get the full code posted (or in download form) before the end of the... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
foneguy said: I agree with a few other comments - you provide a lot of great information and detail but do not ill... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Swartzfager said: @Brian M: I agree that publicity/popularity (or lack thereof) is definitely part of the equation. ... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Meloche said: Hence my comment about offering money to survey takers. You have to give an incentive to potential ... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Swartzfager said: Getting the "silent majority" of ColdFusion developers to interact with the community is a... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Meloche said: I tend to agree with Adam on this. Though I know that CFConversations is popular with the "in c... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Steven said: Hi Brian, Thanks for the info on creating a countdown timer, this looks very useful! But, for use ... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Larry said: Great info, thanks! [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Swartzfager said: @Adam: Is there interest on Adobe's part in increasing that percentage, given that the CF community ... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Adam Lehman said: Just to put this in a better perspective. In reality it's only about 1% (maybe 2%) who read/write bl... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Swartzfager said: @James: Yep, it was John's survey I was thinking of: thanks! [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
James Buckingham said: John Beynon was the person who recently asked CF Developer's to fill out a survey on how long you've... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Brian Swartzfager said: @Dan: Yeah, reaching that 90% is a huge problem in and of itself. Solving that one essentially mea... [more]

Do We Need A Better Way To Survey the CFML Community?
Dan Wilson said: You know, I've thought about this a lot. There are really 2 CF communities, the online one that read... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Brian Swartzfager said: @timB: Thanks for the comment. I'm always glad to hear it when my posts or plugins have helped some... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
timB said: Just wanted to say thanks for saving me from throwing my computer out the window. I'm pretty new to ... [more]

jQuery Plugin Fling Lets You Set Up Flex-like Event Listeners
Justin Carter said: Yeah, great to see a simple but effective method of dealing with application events in the true jQue... [more]

Reaching the "Invisible" CFML Programmers
Bryan F. Hogan said: Just wanted to send a quick note saying that just because one may be a nine to fiver doesn't mean th... [more]

Idea: Give Adobe Bolt Collaboration Features
Erki Esken said: Something like real time shared editing that Cola/DocShare provide in Eclipse would rock in Bolt: h... [more]

Reaching the "Invisible" CFML Programmers
Justin Carter said: Yes, putting a list of community links into the start page of Bolt is a great idea! Especially resou... [more]

Problem: No Drag-and-Drop On The iPhone/iPod Touch. Solution: Click-To-Click Move
Henrik N said: Thanks for this. I looked at various jQuery nested sortable implementations (jTree, nestedSortables,... [more]

How to Use the Same Server-Side Code to Validate Form Data With or Without AJAX Using jQuery
9to5Mac Noob said: good [more]

Table normalization verses long-term data storage
Data record storage said: I think you need to take unique id in Long term data storage of assessment date. Means you can take ... [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
Ted H. said: This is killer stuff, Brian - the performance is way better in IE7 than the prototype/script.aculo.u... [more]

Applications Are Only as Beautiful as the Processes They Replicate
Brian Swartzfager said: And that's a significant part of the problem: changing the human process, even if that change makes... [more]

Applications Are Only as Beautiful as the Processes They Replicate
trebor said: Oh, almost forgot: some of the problems you might be encountering come from the fact that you may be... [more]

Applications Are Only as Beautiful as the Processes They Replicate
trebor said: Finding ways to deal with the "ugly exceptions" is what design patterns is all about. Ide... [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
Brian Swartzfager said: @bKozora: Not sure why it's doing that. There may simply be too many elements in play when moving ... [more]

Using Conditional CSS Selectors
adapter said: Flex is obviously well-positioned to make use of these new APIs, given that the videos themselves ar... [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
bKozora said: I'm real excited about your script but I've noticed that when dragging multiple list items a second ... [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
abcd said: hey i m testing [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
runescape money said: Thanks a lot for posting this, Brian. I' m looking forward to digging into the code. Cheers! [more]

How to Use the Same Server-Side Code to Validate Form Data With or Without AJAX Using jQuery
Tom Krkpatrick said: On a similar note, I wrote about another technique which allows you to make web forms more centraliz... [more]

Leveraging the Ubiquity FireFox Plugin To Access CFQuickDocs Pages
Michael Brennan-White said: I ended up putting it in the command window as you suggested. It would be cool if there was a way... [more]

Leveraging the Ubiquity FireFox Plugin To Access CFQuickDocs Pages
Brian Swartzfager said: @Michael: If you're asking if there's a way to _uninstall_ a command, I must confess that I don't kn... [more]

Leveraging the Ubiquity FireFox Plugin To Access CFQuickDocs Pages
Michael Brennan-White said: Brian, Is there a way to install a Ubiquity command once it is installed? For example I would rat... [more]

Some Notes from the D.C. Scorpio Presentation
Ahamad said: Hi, I have posted a simple example on onMissingmethod here. http://cf-examples.net/in...... [more]

My first jQuery plugin: textCounting
Brian Swartzfager said: @Todd It wouldn't have bothered me so much if it had been a jQuery developer I'd never heard of, but... [more]

My first jQuery plugin: textCounting
Todd Rafferty said: @Brian, I wouldn't feel stupid. After all, you had to have learned something making one yourself. ... [more]

My first jQuery plugin: textCounting
Brian Swartzfager said: @Todd: No, obviously not (insert choice swear words here). Before I started this plugin, I looked... [more]

My first jQuery plugin: textCounting
Todd Rafferty said: Was wondering if you saw this: http://remysharp.com/2008... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Brian Swartzfager said: @Iggy: There's nothing all that special about the HTML and CSS used to lay out the badge, and having... [more]

How to Create a Countdown Timer in JavaScript
Iggy said: Love the blog - but noticed that you never posted the wrapping HTML code to display the timer. Any ... [more]

Rare mid-week edition of CFConversations podcast now available
Andrew Powell said: Truth be told, the latest one was the first episode to which I'd paid attention, and that only b/c I... [more]

Creating a hyperlink that works with or without AJAX
Ringtones said: Usefull tips, thank you. [more]

Java.net Article About Why Java Developers Should Check Out ColdFusion
kola said: Thanks for the feedback! :) [more]

A list of jQuery plugins I use
Daniel Kim said: NyroModal http://nyromodal.nyrodev.... - really customizable modal/lightbox plugin jQuery Date Inp... [more]

A list of jQuery plugins I use
Dana K said: tablesorter was a God send on a legacy project that was using queries for re-sorting. ow. blockUI ... [more]

A list of jQuery plugins I use
Dave Phipps said: My current favourite jQuery plugins are: Form (http://malsup.com/jquery/form/" target="_blank">http://malsup.com/jquery/...) cycle (http://malsup... [more]

Techniques For Providing Instructions Within A Web Application
battery said: [...]Good site I ﾓStumbleduponﾔ it today and gave it a stumble for you.. looking forward to seeing w... [more]

Using a Compound List to Simulate a Compound Boolean Statement
asggf said: http://www.getnowaccess.c... [more]

The new Dreamweaver beta: Subversion, show related files, show code sources
Brian Swartzfager said: @Gary: I think the prevailing thought in the community is that if Adobe does create an IDE for Cold... [more]

The new Dreamweaver beta: Subversion, show related files, show code sources
Gary Fenton said: Thanks for the heads-up, I wasn't aware of the beta. I was hoping to see more IDE functionality than... [more]

A ColdFusion IDE feature request: tools for creating Java classes
Tom Chiverton said: Well, yes, for sure CF8 isn't as fast a 'pure java', but I'm happy to either throw CPU cycles or tec... [more]

A ColdFusion IDE feature request: tools for creating Java classes
Peter Bell said: There is a real issue with CF 8 in the performance of object instantiation. I was chatting to someon... [more]

Creating a hyperlink that works with or without AJAX
Brian Swartzfager said: @Rey: Thanks for the tip. I've amended the code per your suggestion. [more]

Creating a hyperlink that works with or without AJAX
Rey Bango said: One note Brian. Whenever you need to reference a jQuery object multiple times, it's best to assign i... [more]

A ColdFusion IDE feature request: tools for creating Java classes
Tom Chiverton said: CF8 has basically, for us, solved this 'slow transfer of large lists of CFCs' problem, due to it's c... [more]

A ColdFusion IDE feature request: tools for creating Java classes
Brian Swartzfager said: @Dan: If it's simply a matter of allowing for strongly-typed CFCs that don't require as much work to... [more]

A ColdFusion IDE feature request: tools for creating Java classes
Dan Roberts said: I think it would make more sense to give us a way in the language to create strongly typed CFCs, if ... [more]

ColdFusion Weekly Podcast 3.08: Andy Powell on Enterprise MVC with CF and Java
Andy Powell said: Thanks for the plug Brian! [more]

Flex adoption leads to thousands of new ColdFusion developers?
Campbell said: I have been exposed to it through working with Flex and I have told myself I must sit down and have ... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
anu said: Brian, I've been using your example to build my app and its coming out great. Big thanks to you... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
anu said: I absolutely don't mind if its messy. I think it'll still be a very good resource for me to get star... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Brian Swartzfager said: If you don't mind the code being a bit messy, I can package it together in a .zip file and either se... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
anu said: I'm looking for resources to get started on a similar project for my work. We need to be able to bui... [more]

Investing My Tax Rebate In the ColdFusion Economy
Brian Swartzfager said: @"Chimbles": I'm quite responsible, thank you very much. [more]

Investing My Tax Rebate In the ColdFusion Economy
Chimbles said: How about, learning some responsibility and when the check arrives instead of running about to purch... [more]

Blueprint for An Emergency SMS Messaging System
Brian Swartzfager said: I don't know if ColdFusion 8's AJAX features include a built-in function for checking for new data l... [more]

Blueprint for An Emergency SMS Messaging System
Smith said: We have looked into this method as well. We are currently researching displaying a cfwindow on the ... [more]

ColdFusion Developers and Social Technologies
Brian Swartzfager said: @barry: I agree that CF developers are more inclined to come together (whether in person or on the ... [more]

ColdFusion Developers and Social Technologies
barry.b said: it depends. one thing I _have_ noticed is that CF people seem to be more "connected" tha... [more]

BlueDragon Goes Open-Source: A Good Thing, But How Good?
Michael Long said: I suspect that it will have little impact, as BD is effectively a step behind the official version. ... [more]

Internet Explorer 8's Webslices Feature: Widgetizing Pieces of Web Pages?
Brian Swartzfager said: Based on what I just read about Web Clips (sorry, not a Mac user), the two biggest differences are w... [more]

Internet Explorer 8's Webslices Feature: Widgetizing Pieces of Web Pages?
Fred said: How are the Slices different from Safari 3.0's Web Clips? [more]

If You Don't Follow RIA News, You Must Be a TWiT
Brian Swartzfager said: Nope, don't buy it. If they can spend an entire episode talking to Jonathan Coulton about niche mus... [more]

If You Don't Follow RIA News, You Must Be a TWiT
Tony Fendall said: Someone else noticed too! I remember Leo saying something about Apollo on net@nite a few months ago... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Joshua Cyr said: I really should play with jQuery. :-) ColdBox is interesting. I don't do much with any framework, ... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Brian Swartzfager said: (Grin) Once you add the Resizables jQuery UI files to an application, making a box resizable like th... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Joshua Cyr said: I am happy to share too, though its all sorta rapped up in coldbox. Lemme know. I will be looking ... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Brian Swartzfager said: Well, if there's anything in mine that you'd like to emulate and you want to know more about, just a... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Joshua Cyr said: I am actually making images and storing them. I have my own big server, so no big deal. Though I do... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Brian Swartzfager said: Actually I released it last week, but my initial post about it didn't generate too much attention (m... [more]

ColdFusion 8's Image Functions + jQuery= A UI For Adding Text and Color Blocks Into An Image file
Joshua Cyr said: Wholly crap, I can't believe we both started the same basic idea last week and released it this morn... [more]

Investing My Tax Rebate In the ColdFusion Economy
Brian Swartzfager said: I knew there was something I had forgotten! Thanks, Judith, I'll do that when I get home tonight. [more]

Investing My Tax Rebate In the ColdFusion Economy
Judith Dinowitz said: Well, this is awfully self-serving, but why not subscribe to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update? ... [more]

Oracle and The CFDBINFO tag: More Tables Than I Bargained For
Brian Swartzfager said: @crisp: To be honest, I don't know, though my guess would be no. [more]

Oracle and The CFDBINFO tag: More Tables Than I Bargained For
crisp said: Do you have by any chance DBA role on the Oracle user ? I get the same thing when I use a code gener... [more]

Oracle and The CFDBINFO tag: More Tables Than I Bargained For
Brian Swartzfager said: @Todd: True, but it would be nice to be able to get the tables you want in one step (either using t... [more]

Oracle and The CFDBINFO tag: More Tables Than I Bargained For
todd sharp said: Don't forget the tag returns a query, so QofQ will work on it... [more]

Oracle and The CFDBINFO tag: More Tables Than I Bargained For
Brian Swartzfager said: So it's not just me/my organization's Oracle server. I agree then that the tag needs enhancement fo... [more]

Oracle and The CFDBINFO tag: More Tables Than I Bargained For
joel said: I filed an bug report/enhancement on this a while back. There really needs to be an "owner"... [more]

CFUnited Now a Week Earlier
Brian Swartzfager said: In hindsight, perhaps that would have been the way to go, but I really didn't consider it to be priv... [more]

CFUnited Now a Week Earlier
Ben said: I think it would be good idea to wait an official announcement first. [more]

Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
Tony Garcia said: Thanks a lot for posting this, Brian. I' m looking forward to digging into the code. Cheers! [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Brian Swartzfager said: Hey, Tony, I've just published a blog post with a link to a demo that lets you rearrange items in n... [more]

Neat Video Demo of the Allurent Desktop Connection AIR App At Work
Tony Garcia said: Allurent presented this stuff from their work on the Anthropologie web site at the Flex Camp in Bost... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Tony Garcia said: Whenever you're ready, Brian. You gave me enough info on your prior comment for me to give it a try ... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Brian Swartzfager said: It's always been my plan to show off the tool I made for that application, but I still haven't decid... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Tony Garcia said: Thanks a bunch for the info, Brian. That makes a lot of sense. JS isn't really my forte, so if you c... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Brian Swartzfager said: Hi, Tony, The jQuery UI sortable function will handle nested lists: just make the top-level UL ele... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Tony Garcia said: Hey Brian, This is very cool. I've been looking for something like this. Have you tried to do this w... [more]

Techniques For Providing Instructions Within A Web Application
Brian Swartzfager said: I've been thinking about getting something like Camtasia so I could make videos of some of the UI to... [more]

Techniques For Providing Instructions Within A Web Application
Jim Priest said: Great idea!! I've also had good luck by creating videos of complex admin tools using Camtasia. I s... [more]

How to Copy To and From the Clipboard using JavaScript in AIR Beta 2
Brian Swartzfager said: You're welcome: glad to hear that I saved someone else a little pain. [more]

How to Copy To and From the Clipboard using JavaScript in AIR Beta 2
bunnyhero said: THANK YOU!! i was wondering why my clipboard code wasn't working. even the updated documentation for... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Brian Swartzfager said: Anne, I'm SO sorry. Soon after moving my site to a new hosting provider, I essentially abandoned th... [more]

UI Tool for Rearraging Items in a List
Anne Wittenberg said: There is a CF error at the List Reorder Tool link. I am looking for a list reordering tool in CF and... [more]