I work for a company that provides eCommerce applications for NFL and NCAA teams. Two days ago we released the new web application for the Houston Texans team. Written in ColdFusion 8, and powered by jQuery, the new application boasts a sleeker new design and makes use of some of...

I’m happy to announce my second plugin is up on the jQuery website for download, AP Text Counter. This is a simple plugin that implements a text limiter and counter mechanism in jQuery, complete with customizable options and useful callbacks to know when various events occur. Here are the links,...

Today I had to work on a bit of code that dealt with trying to tie in merchandising promotions against a shopping cart. This code I’m working with is pretty old, so it’s kind of like trying to make a paper airplane out of the Constitution. :/ My boss is...

If you’ve ever had the need to quickly remove duplicate items in an array you might find yourself resorting to the old loop method. This involves looping over the input array, then further looping over a result array, checking to see if you’ve already inserted the input value, and if...

While using my little tag plugin, AP Tags, I ran into a small snag where I have a dialog box that I am crafting dynamically using jQuery UI. In this dialog I have my tag plugin, and I am calling it every time a different “Edit” link is created. I’m...

Today had a need to work with a page that needed to allowed the quick upload of multiple images. I decided pretty quickly that a basic loop of file upload text boxes would be too icky, and did a quick search for what jQuery plugins were available. The first one...

I have posted my first entry to Adobe’s new Cookbook today. It is a revisit of my blog entry on creating a more user-friendly psudo-random keys without having to use a UUID (coldfusion-random-id-generation). Take a look, and give a vote! http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Generate_a_Random_ID-16341.html Happy coding!

Tomorrow evening on October 13th, 2009 I will be presenting to the Dallas/Ft. Worth ColdFusion Users Group the second part of the Head First Design Patterns for CF, otherwise known as the Observer Pattern. There we not only be my presentation, but Luis Majano (creator of ColdBox) will be presenting...

Welcome to another edition of “Dumbass Code”. Here’s a snippet that’s fun. This bit of code gets a list of product IDs, iterates over them, and if the product ID is greater than zero, and less than 999,999 then it is a “special” type of product and is not counted....

Today I had a small situation where there is a structure in the session scope that, when a form is submitted with address information, put this address data into that session scoped structure. However, there is a checkbox and a submit button on the form that get sent along with...