cfPadawan.com - jQuery

MASS EFFECT checkboxes with jQuery and CF!

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:20:00 -0500

If you've struggled with emulating GMail or Yahoo style Select All functionality for tabular forms and you're in love (or just curious) about jQuery and ColdFusion then this post is for you! If you love MASS EFFECT and you just want to see where someone has come up with a legitimate reason to use the words MASS EFFECT in code then this post if for you too! [More]

A stupid JavaScript mistake...

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:01:00 -0500

Have you ever spent an hour on something that was so simple that upon solving it you wonder how you possess enough brain power to have ever learned to write a simple statement? Well I did and I'm writing this entry for anyone else who has ever felt like they should be immediately de-rezzed! Yeah - I just went TRON on you... [More]

JavaScript Fall Through Switch Statements

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:17:00 -0500

Someone recently asked me if it were possible to easily execute the same code for two or more possible case values in a JavaScript switch statement. [More]

Dynamically Changing jQuery UI Accordion Tab Headings

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:50:00 -0500

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. [More]

Getting Started with jQuery UI Dialogs

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:10:00 -0500

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. [More]

Using jQuery load in place of a cfdiv

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:57:00 -0500

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! [More]

My first foray into the world of jQuery

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:59:00 -0500

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! [More]