Dynamically Changing jQuery UI Accordion Tab Headings
If you're into using jQuery UI (and who's not?) then this is an easy way to change the heading of a jQuery accordion tab style heading to reflect user focus.
Getting Started with jQuery UI Dialogs
So I've been slowly learning jQuery over the last two weeks and today I wanted to see how I could duplicate the cool overlay style and functionality of a cfwindow. As it turns out, jQuery UI makes this super simple with Dialogs.
Using jQuery load in place of a cfdiv
As many of you know, yesterday I ventured into the world of jQuery for the first time. I'm a little late to the party so I've decided that in order to get proficient with jQuery before the apocalypse I'm going to have to use it in my everyday client development tasks.
To give you some background, I have a long, on-going project where I'm creating a warehouse management/manufacturing application using ColdFusion 8 and SQL Server 2005. The app is huge and I've been using lots of out of the box cfajax widgets and cfajaxproxy to do cool things. I wanted to see how tough it would be to make jQuery do the same type of thing that I would normally use a cfdiv to accomplish. The quick answer? Easy, easy, easy - so easy that I couldn't believe it and had to ask Ray Camden if it were truly that easy or if I had made some sort of lucky mistake. I said, "Ray - it's too fast and too easy" and he said "Is that even AIR that you're breathing???" so here we go!
My first foray into the world of jQuery
Well, I've finally gotten curious enough to give jQuery a try. Don't cry Adobe - your super powerful cfajaxproxy tag along with some of your widgets (which I don't know whether to hug or strangle on an hourly basis) have and will continue to serve me well. I finished my Certified ColdFusion Expert test earlier this month and now I'm on the prowl to learn something that will prove to be useful along with being exciting, challenging and new. It doesn't appear as though this jQuery phenomenon is going anywhere - so what do I have to lose!
