We have been working on a couple of projects that use dynamic image maps. We had an issue that crashed IE6 and IE7 when a certain combination of links were clicked on. The scenario is that a user is presented with a map of Australia and clicks a state. We take that click, and return […]
A colleague asked me today about how he could dump out a jQuery object and find out what was in it. There are 2 ways I know of right now. 1) AjaxCFC contains a js file call dump.js and dDumper.js include these in your page, then use The output is appended to the bottom of […]
During a recent project with a bent on improving UI we decided to take a look at what happened if an over zealous IT administrator in a company decided to disable activeX on his pure Internet Explorer environment. The results were disturbing therefore justifying the mantra that mission critical apps should still be functional without […]
By default ajaxCFC includes the JQuery BlockUI plugin to cover the screen and display a message while the ajax request gets processed. Its default message is “please wait….”, so to make it more explanatory we can put a line of code in to help. Taking our last example of retrieving products, lets turn on blockUI: […]
The new version of ajaxCFC that runs on jQuery is excellent and has a bunch of nifty helper functions. I have recently had the need to make the end result less developer friendly and more user friendly. So here we go – how to catch errors with ajaxCFC without using the default error handler. First […]
I went on the hunt recently for a decent suggest component for ajaxCFC and after starting to build my own I came across this example from Rob Gonda for a single suggest with ajaxCFC. The issue here was that the code is built only to work for one component on a page. As I am […]
I have been working a lot with Java and in particular the svnkit java API for SubVersion, this was all started with the cfdiff project from Rick Osborne. One of the things that has had me troubled for a while is viewing the contents of a file at a particular revision. The SVNKit returns a […]
We just went live with 6 months worth of work and it has been really smooth considering the amount of changes. Aside from the stupid questions from userland we haven’t had any major issues. We did however experience some slow downs which we could attribute only to the AJAX suggester tools we had implemented in […]
So you have several apps on several servers, each of them load balanced and clustered using ColdFusions cool new Clustering and load balancing. But what if you need to know which of the CF instances is handling a particular request, what if you want to actually see the Round Robin happening? I found a nifty […]
