The Future of the Web
I know, I know. The title sounds like SEO-link-bait, I apologize. I want to talk about something that I'm fairly excited about, and I hope it excites you as well.
Infinite Scroll Example with ColdFusion
A few weeks ago a reader asked if I had an example of infinite scroll with a ColdFusion back end. I replied that I did not, and that infinite scroll was the worst thing to happen to the Internet since the rainbow horizontal rule.
I'm possibly being a bit overly dramatic, but I'm really not a fan of it. Maybe it's the OCD in me, but the fact that I can never get to the end of an infinite scroll UI just bugs the hell out of me.
That being said - I figured - why not make a quick example. It can't hurt, right?
ColdFusion Summit Announced
I'm totally stealing this content from the official ColdFusion blog, but as it is good news I think I'm allowed. The ColdFusion Summit, a ColdFusion conference organized by Adobe's ColdFusion team, is now officially announced. Details:
October 24th and 25th
Manadalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
Registration cost: $250
Each paid registration will receive a FREE copy of ColdFusion Builder (MSRP value of $299!)
Capturing camera/picture data without PhoneGap
As people know, I'm a huge fan of PhoneGap and what it allows me to do with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. But I think it is crucial to remember that you don't always need PhoneGap. A great example of that is camera access. Did you know that recent mobile browsers support accessing the camera directly from HTML and JavaScript? Let's look at an example.
Converting a list of dates into a shorter, combined list
Forgive the title, I'm not sure it best describes the task. I was asked by a reader to consider a simple problem. Given a list of dates, how would you rewrite them so that two (or more) consecutive dates are displayed together? For example, imagine this input.
Note to folks attending cfObjective and attending my sessions
Due to a problem back home, I have to leave the conference early. I'm giving my Mobile Web Debugging session in the first slot this morning (this schedule change will be announced this morning). Dave Ferguson will be covering my CF10+HTML5 session and Matt Gifford will be covering my PhoneGap session.
ColdFusion Job Opening - healthendevours.com
Passing it on...
My name is Derek Bowes and I used to run whousescoldfusion.com and twitter is @whousescf.I am currently working for healthendeavors.com and our Health Care application uses CF10 with SQL 2008. We need more CF developers and are having a hard time finding good ones. They need to be on site in our Scottsdale, AZ office and we would be willing to pay to relocate the right candidate (US relocation only). Need someone mid-senior, with jQuery and JavaScript.
If you could put the word out, it would be greatly appreciated.
I can be reached at derek@healthendeavors.com.
Forms not working on your ColdFusion server? Size matters.
I've come across multiple people lately who have been bitten by this so I thought a quick blog post would be useful for my readers. If you've recently upgraded your ColdFusion server or patched it, you may find some forms return an error when submitted. Here is an example:
Hear me wax poetic on Nerd Radio
Ok, maybe "poetic" is a bit much... but you can listen to my Nerd Radio interview here:
MAX Day 3: Ray Camden and Stupid Questions
Ray Camden, Adobe Creative Cloud Evangelist, talks with us about his sessions at MAX covering topics like PhoneGap Build and web development tools.
Thanks to Leif and and Garth for inviting me!
JavaScript Design Patterns - The Revealing Module Pattern
It has been a few weeks (ok, a few months) since my last blog post on JavaScript design patterns. I'd apologize, but frankly, it will probably be a few more weeks until I blog on this subject again, so hopefully people aren't expecting a fast series here (grin). As a reminder, the idea behind this series is to create real, practical examples of various JavaScript design patterns based on the book, "Learning JavaScript Design Patterns" by Addy Osmani. (See my review here.) In this blog entry I'll be discussing the Revealing Module pattern.