I conducted the interview, but for the most part I stayed out of the way and let Hal do his thing, which is to speak thoughtfully and eloquently about ColdFusion, OO, and application development.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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How to Use the Same Server-Side Code to Validate Form Data With or Without AJAX Using jQuery
9to5Mac Noob said: good
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Using Conditional CSS Selectors
adapter said: Flex is obviously well-positioned to make use of these new APIs, given that the videos themselves ar...
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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 ...
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Sorting a Nested List Using jQuery And Saving the Changes
abcd said: hey i m testing
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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!
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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......
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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...
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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. ...
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My first jQuery plugin: textCounting
Brian Swartzfager said: @Todd: No, obviously not (insert choice swear words here).
Before I started this plugin, I looked...
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My first jQuery plugin: textCounting
Todd Rafferty said: Was wondering if you saw this:
http://remysharp.com/2008...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Creating a hyperlink that works with or without AJAX
Ringtones said: Usefull tips, thank you.
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Java.net Article About Why Java Developers Should Check Out ColdFusion
kola said: Thanks for the feedback! :)
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A list of jQuery plugins I use
Daniel Kim said: NyroModal http://nyromodal.nyrodev....
- really customizable modal/lightbox plugin
jQuery Date Inp...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Using a Compound List to Simulate a Compound Boolean Statement
asggf said: http://www.getnowaccess.c...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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ColdFusion Weekly Podcast 3.08: Andy Powell on Enterprise MVC with CF and Java
Andy Powell said: Thanks for the plug Brian!
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Investing My Tax Rebate In the ColdFusion Economy
Brian Swartzfager said: @"Chimbles": I'm quite responsible, thank you very much.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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, ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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? ...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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CFUnited Now a Week Earlier
Ben said: I think it would be good idea to wait an official announcement first.
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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!
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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