Earlier last month I blogged about how to use jqGrid, a grid component written on top of jQuery, with ColdFusion. A reader of the site asked that I put up an actual demo of this in action. As a result I have setup a demo page with a basic jqGrid...

Don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but it has been a long time behavior that ColdFusion will alphabetize the order of columns in a query result set. If you are working with queries in a manner where order is important, such as serializing them to a format in JSON not...

Ok, this made me chuckle and I had to pass it on. For those that don’t read the Daily WTF, you should, because you get gems like this every now and again. Below is a screen shot, clearly from the beta of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and something has obviously...

As most of you know I tend to follow the various businesses in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex that use ColdFusion as their development platform. I came across this article the other day about one such business in the area that is not faring well with customer opinion. Hopefully this business...

A quick post to announce my new JavaScript component, apMessageBox. This component is a quick and easy way to display error or informational messages in JavaScript-based applications. It is based jQuery 1.4 and jQuery UI 1.8. Go here to see more about it!

If you didn’t make it out to Terry Ryan’s presentation on ColdFusion Builder last night, here’s what you missed. Free pizza and soda, provided by Paladin Consulting See the cool features of ColdFusion Builder Awesome extensions, quite possibly the most exciting feature of ColdFusion Builder A free license for ColdFusion...

Today Adobe has announced the release of its official IDE for ColdFusion rapid-application development, ColdFusion Builder. As a user of the beta versions for quite some time now I can go on the record and say that ColdFusion Builder is a welcome product. Important features (in my head anyway) include:...

When looking for a grid solution compatible with jQuery that does not involve using CFGRID, the best I found has been jqGrid. It has a very impressive list of features, wide support for various incoming data formats, and is an all around solid solution. For us ColdFusion developers, however, just...

I had the pleasure of working an issue just the other day where an internal web application didn’t seem to be responding. At first I suspected some type of bug in environment configuration, or some other type of obscure thing. The app worked in other environments, so that was my...

Join me tomorrow night at the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion User Group meeting where Dave Shuck will be presenting a beginner’s introduction to ColdSpring and dependency injection, following by yours truly presenting Chapter 7 of the Head First Design Patterns book: Adapter and Facade patterns. There is usually food, nerds, and...