http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm Raymond Camden's personal blog covering jQuery, Mobile, ColdFusion, and Web Development. en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:30:43 -0500 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:00 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss raymondcamden@gmail.com raymondcamden@gmail.com raymondcamden@gmail.com no http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/3/Job-Opening-for-Sr-ColdFusion-Developer-in-CA-San-Fernando-Valley Just passing it on... Job Opening for Sr. ColdFusion Developer in CA/ San Fernando Valley Position: Senior ColdFusion Developer Contract to hire. Seeking an advanced-level developer who lives to push ColdFusion and Object-Oriented Web develop... ColdFusion Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/3/Job-Opening-for-Sr-ColdFusion-Developer-in-CA-San-Fernando-Valley http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/3/Update-to-my-highlightfadeout-example--now-with-CSS-hotness Yesterday I posted an example of highlight/fadeout effects done with jQuery. It wasn't necessarily that exciting, but it's not something I've done before so it was fun to build. Fellow evangelist (and my boss, so yeah, his comments get special attent... Development HTML5 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:28:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/3/Update-to-my-highlightfadeout-example--now-with-CSS-hotness http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/2/Creating-a-highlightfadeout-text-effect-on-a-tag-cloud Yesterday I blogged a simple example of how to turn an RSS feed into a tag cloud. Today reader JP commented that it would be cool if I could mimic an effect he saw in a Flash based tag cloud. Basically, as you mouse over each word, they light up. Her... jQuery JavaScript Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:17:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/2/Creating-a-highlightfadeout-text-effect-on-a-tag-cloud http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/1/Generate-a-tag-cloud-from-an-RSS-feed-with-ColdFusion Earlier today Mike Henke asked if there was a way to generate a tag cloud from an RSS feed. While he was able to find a solution quick enough (Wordle), I thought it would be kind of fun to try this myself. I knew that Pete Freitag had already blogged... ColdFusion Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:42:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/1/Generate-a-tag-cloud-from-an-RSS-feed-with-ColdFusion http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/1/Reminder--Adobe-Cookbooks As a gentle reminder, don't forget the excellent resource that is the Adobe Cookbook, including over 200 ColdFusion Cookbook entries. Looks like it has been a while since content was added, so take this as a gentle push to yall to consider adding som... Development ColdFusion Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:42:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/2/1/Reminder--Adobe-Cookbooks http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/30/RIACon-2012 RIACon 2012 will be held August 6th and 7th in beautiful Rockville, MD at The Legacy Hotel and Conference Centre. The official call for speakers will begin next week, but for more information, check out the web site: http://www.riacon.com. I missed l... Mobile JavaScript HTML5 ColdFusion Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:31:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/30/RIACon-2012 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/30/Bad-use-of-tablet-space--an-example I came across something interesting in a tablet app today and I thought it was a great example of bad design. I hate to go critical, especially for a service I love, and especially since I'm no expert in tablet design myself, but I thought it would b... Mobile Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:18:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/30/Bad-use-of-tablet-space--an-example http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/27/Searching-across-all-resources-in-Chrome Thanks for this goes to Paul Irish. For a while now I've been trying to find a way to search for a value across multiple files that are loaded in a browser request. But every time I used the Search field in Chrome Dev tools, it would only search the ... Development Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:31:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/27/Searching-across-all-resources-in-Chrome http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/27/A-look-at-JavaScript-Form-Validation Validating forms with JavaScript has been possible since the very beginning of time... or at least the introduction of LiveScript (the original name before the marketing drones got ahold of it). While it's not particular new or as exciting as Canvas ... Development JavaScript Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:03:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/27/A-look-at-JavaScript-Form-Validation http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/26/A-database-utility-class-for-PhoneGap I've done a few projects now that make use of PhoneGap's database support. Like most things in PhoneGap, it just plain works. But I've encountered a few things I thought could be done a bit easier, so I've built a simple utility class for my future p... Mobile Development Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:36:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/26/A-database-utility-class-for-PhoneGap http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/25/New-Adobe-Inspire-Magazine-out-with-an-article-by-yours-truly The title says it all. The latest issue of Adobe's Inspire Magazine is out. There's lots of good content with the only low point being my own article (grin) on PhoneGap: Combining your web skills with PhoneGap to build mobile apps. Probably nothing n... Mobile Development Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:22:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/25/New-Adobe-Inspire-Magazine-out-with-an-article-by-yours-truly http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/24/PhoneGap-RSS-Reader--Part-3 Welcome to my third entry for my (what was at first) simple PhoneGap RSS reader. If you haven't yet, please be sure to read part 1 and part 2 so you have some context about how this application works. In this part, I'm going to tackle two enhancement... Mobile jQuery JavaScript Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:10:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/24/PhoneGap-RSS-Reader--Part-3 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/24/ColdFusion-Position-at-Adobe Passing on this job notice from Adobe. It is a contract position with the possibility of converting to full time. We have an open contract position for a CF engineer that I was hoping you could post on your blogs. Here are the requirements ... ColdFusion Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:17:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/24/ColdFusion-Position-at-Adobe http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/23/Detecting-invalid-HTML-with-JavaScript As a blogger, I write quite a few blog posts. I hate RTEs (Rich Text Editors) so I'll typically do most of any desired HTML by hand. Normally this isn't a big deal. My blogware can handle paragraphs and code formatting. I typically just worry about b... jQuery JavaScript Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:35:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/23/Detecting-invalid-HTML-with-JavaScript http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/23/ColdFusion-Koans I'm a bit late to blog on this, almost three months late, but folks may want to check out Ryan Anklam's ColdFusion Koans. What are ColdFusion Koans? (Stealing this from his site...) The ColdFusion Koans project is intended to teach ColdFusion sy... Development ColdFusion Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:01:00 -0500 http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2012/1/23/ColdFusion-Koans