Posted in Mobile | Posted on 03-14-2012 | 600 views

Thanks again to the Salt Lake ColdFusion User Group for inviting me to speak to them on PhoneGap. Below you can find the slide embed. You can watch the recording URL here: experts.adobeconnect.com/p8x6r7cl6te/. You can also download the sample apps as well. If anyone has any followup questions or suggestions for improvements, please let me know.

Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 03-14-2012 | 712 views

If you read the release notes for the new charting support in ColdFusion 10, you may come across this little gem:

The following server-side charting features are not available with client-side charting:
Linking charts to URL
Writing charts to a variable

While technically correct, it is possible to add support for this with a little bit of code. Here's an demonstration of one way you can add this support back in.

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 03-13-2012 | 664 views

Title says it all - we released a new hotfix for ColdFusion today: www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-06.html

Posted in JavaScript, HTML5 | Posted on 03-13-2012 | 802 views

Yesterday Terry Ryan announced the launch of WhichElement.com, a site dedicated to the semantic side of HTML5. This is an area I had not dug into a lot previously. Terry is quite passionate about it and because of this I've taken a deeper look at the topic and found it to be quite interesting. I highly encourage you to check out the site and participate in the discussion. I thought I'd take a few minutes and discuss a bit about the technology in use on the site.

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 03-12-2012 | 817 views

Red Hand, LLC, purveyor of the Electronic Tenant® Solutions software, is seeking an energetic and capable individual for a Senior Level ColdFusion Developer position.

Details: Senior ColdFusion Developer (Full Time)

Posted in Mobile | Posted on 03-12-2012 | 1,147 views

Let me start off this blog entry by saying that I've got no beef with Eclipse. Eclipse is an incredibly powerful IDE and a great platform for a lot of tools. Eclipse is awesome, mkay? That being said, I've been doing a lot of JavaScript, HTML, and, yes, CSS lately, and I've found the existing tools for Eclipse not to my liking. Also, I was looking for a tool that was a bit more, how shall we say, light weight? With that in mind, the primary editor I've been using lately is WebStorm by JetBrains. While not a free tool, it is relatively cheap, came highly recommended, and so far has been performing well. I've also been trying out Sublime Text 2.

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Posted in Mobile | Posted on 03-10-2012 | 1,061 views

Principle writing done... doing final updates and support for 1.1... and launching in June. Written by myself and Andy Mathews...

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials

Posted in Mobile, JavaScript | Posted on 03-09-2012 | 1,353 views

This week I had the opportunity to record a few videos on PhoneGap for Adobe TV. One of the videos covered the File API and since it was a bit difficult I figured I'd share my findings, and sample code, with others.

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 03-08-2012 | 1,430 views

This question came in this morning. Looking at the code below, see if you can determine the issue. (Of course, the title of the blog entry is a bit of a give away.)

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Posted in Mobile | Posted on 03-07-2012 | 1,879 views

A few weeks back I got a preview of a product that was incredible, and I'm happy to see that a public preview was launched last night. Adobe Shadow is a tool that lets you preview and inspect web sites on multiple mobile devices at once. You can use your desktop to drive the web browser on your iOS and Android devices. That by itself would be useful. But you can then also use a Chrome Dev Tools like inspection and editing feature to tweak the DOM of individual devices. None of this probably sounds nearly as cool as it looks, so take a look at the short video below:

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