SOSensible Blog

jQuery Data PlugIn

2008-08-26T00:00:00-06:00

OK... look out Spry data lovers. Here comes an amazing solution jQuery plugin for doing data dom interaction with less code and more power. Let's look at an example.

Example

HTML

<div id="quickdemo">
<div class="item"><span class="library">Library Name</span></div>
</div>

JavaScript

$('#quickdemo')
   .items([
       {library:'DataMGR'},
       {library:'jQuery'},
       {library:'COOP'},
       {library:'SOS'}
   ])
   .chain();

What does this do for us? Well check out some live in browser demos, documentation and the code and you will be pleased to a new level.

Ears and Eyes for AIR

2008-08-18T00:00:00-06:00

There are a number of ways to watch what goes on between an AIR application and the server. Yes the built in debugging is nice, but that doesn't tell us about what the AIR application says to other HTTP servers and what they answer back. There are a number of solutions to make this easier.

1. Fiddler This is a free dotNet solution.

2. Service Capture Paid for Solution. 35 bucks.

Both of these solutions are nice. Sorry Mac friends, but you will have to let me know what the solutions are for a Mac. This should get you talking with the CF server or what ever server you might be using.

jQuery Conference

2008-08-16T00:00:00-06:00

jQuery conf. will have a lot of big names you might want to hear from and meet. John, Karl, Brandon, Paul, Joern, Rey, Kevin Hoyt (Adobe), Aza Raskin (Mozilla), Scott Jehl (Filament Group). Check for details at http://events.jquery.com/.

A million and won?

2008-08-13T00:00:00-06:00

There is an interesting test that was run by a blogger on Inside Ria Blog Post. He took a challenge from another blogger to process a million records and share the results. His test was done in Adobe Flex and it was an Amazing result.

Color Me jBeautiful

2008-07-28T00:00:00-06:00

OK... found another cool tool to check out.This one is a new one for me... found a short while ago and thought others might be interested also. This one has more than the round one. Poor round color picker just got pushed to second favorite. :)

jQuery Color Picker

jQuery Bookmark plugin

2008-07-26T00:00:00-06:00

OK... have you seen those cool bookmarking tools that let you bookmark content on sites with social bookmarking buttons? What if you want to do that also. It would be nice if someone wrapped all those into something that could just be plugged into a site now wouldn't it? This plugin will help you get the job done fast!

jQuery Social Bookmarking Plugin

gameQuery gaming system

2008-07-25T00:00:00-06:00

I thought this would be a great Friday fun listing. Here is a jQuery plugin being created to make JavaScript (AJAX) games easier to write. There is a demo on the page and it could use a bit more instructions but I don't play games like this often and it captured to much of my time. So now it is your turn to have it consume you! LOL

gameQuery Link

CSS Cross Browser on CMX

2008-07-24T00:00:00-06:00

I am an Adobe User Group manager and things like this are brought to my attention. I don't know what your skills or resources may be but this is just one example of the great benefits of Community MX. This site contains free and paid for content but if you are stuggling with this consider investing in access to these wonderful resources.

CSS Article on Cross Browser CSS

jFlow Context Slider

2008-07-23T00:00:00-06:00

OK, you are likely wondering exatly what a context slider is now aren't you? This means you have a content block on the page with something like tabs on the top of it. When you click from one tab to the next the content inside the block appears to have content scroll inside the block. It is very powerful and something I would suggest checking out.

jFlow Link

Google universal AJAX repository

2008-07-22T00:00:00-06:00

I hope many of you other developers are getting as much out of blogs as I am.

There are a set of libraries we as the web developer community tend to use for doing AJAX. Google code has a set of common ajax libraries that can be accessed to make them download faster.There is a great blog post of the benefits and considerations. Some additional considerations is to create an API that makes it easy to do things like pull content from a CDN. Another thing I am working on is how to create links to external sites for content in the fashion this is speaking of also. When we figure out a best practice on this we will pass it on. It is likely that this best practice will end up in our next version of SOS when we finally get it out to the public.

(note: I am planning to overhaul my blogging system to make it let me build prettier RIA blog posts in much less time. That might be a couple of months out, but it will be better to read and watch for anyone who follows.)

Image Notes

2008-07-21T00:00:00-06:00

How may of you have seen the way notes can be added to Flickr photos? I think it is a cool concept and would like to be able to do that also for some of the projects we work on with our sites. Now my goal isn't to offer the public the ability to add notes to photographs but it would be nice to the the content managers of sites the power of putting these notes on the pages. This is only the last piece of the puzzle but adding in the other pieces with other libraries shouldn't be that difficult.

Image Notes Link

note: I corrected the link for anyone who was hear earlier.

DynaCloud or Automated Tag Lists

2008-07-19T00:00:00-06:00

Well, since we started working on SEO tools this is one of the type of things we are looking to do. I am not sure this specifically will be added to our library but it is worth looking at for the grand scope and power of tools. (Esp. since this weeks blogs have been full of jQuery stuff. ) Check out this page for details and examples. It is actually some very amazing concepts wrapped up into this plugin.

DynaCloud Plugin

I am looking at doing it this way or considering what it might take to do the same thing in ColdFusion. Of course there is one other issue that we are looking at building some of our tools as AIR applications. This means they may not need ColdFusion for this part of the application at all. (That is scary... imagine building something outside the power of ColdFusion?)

Label Size Matching with Forms

2008-07-18T00:00:00-06:00

OK, how many people besides me have been frustrated trying to create dynamic web forms. Well, now that this solution is found it is something that we could likely do but why bother when it has been done for us?

Janko's Blog post on justifying form labels.

Context AJAX Popup Menus

2008-07-17T00:00:00-06:00

OK, getting context menus and popup content sensitive information is great... but how do you make it pretty easy? Well, I don't know about you but this seems pretty easy to me! We are putting this into our test queue and looking at making another ICE element with it.

Context Menus with jQuery

Hot Keys with jQuery

2008-07-16T00:00:00-06:00

This is rated to work in Safari, Opera, IE and FF.

jQuery.Hotkeys plugin lets you easily add and remove handlers for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination. It takes one line of code to bind/unbind a hot key combination.

Hot Keys Project Home

Example:

Binding 'Ctrl+c'

jQuery.hotkeys.add('Ctrl+c', function(){ alert('copy anyone?');});

Unbinding 'Ctrl+c'

jQuery.hotkeys.remove('Ctrl+c');

NOTE: This project is now at version 0.5 if you don't have the latest.

jQuery Doc Helpers

2008-07-11T00:00:00-06:00

Here is a set of links to docs for doing jQuery.

jQuery is great and powerful. Yet the biggest issue with most people is just being able to approach it for the sheer mass of everything it can do. I hope these links help.

FlexCamp in Michigan July 30th

2008-07-03T00:00:00-06:00

It's actually a two day camp. Day two will be intermediate information.

FlexCamp Comes to Michigan

Flex Camp - Flex User Group page We hope many of you get to attend. This will be a great introduction and you will be amazed what you can do with flex!

Special Thought

Apparently the BBC has moved from MS solutions to an AIR (Flex desktop technology) based solutions. WOW, it's nice to see who is getting the power of this new approach. If you want to get a taste of what the BBC is doing, come to the FlexCamp and discover next generation desktop applications or browser side Flex apps. They both are taking the internet by storm!

BBC Story Links - MS dumped for Adobe AIR

CFDevCon UK

2008-06-30T00:00:00-06:00

Well, it has been years since I have been over seas. There have been times in Canada and in Mexico but I was just a teen ager when we lived in Italy for about six months. This time it's a trip to the UK for CFDevCon. I will be presenting on two topics. I will be presenting on jQuery ColdFusion integration and on the fantastic power of COOP. We are also working on integrating COOP with a number of other frameworks at this time. We will show more of that at the conference. So you can use COOP as a stand alone framework for people who hate frameworks or you can use it integrated with others. The conference dates are from September 25 to 26th.

Google Maps with Street View

2008-06-26T00:00:00-06:00

OK... jump over to Google and get a map view. Then get some directions taking a good trip over the US... and suddenly you see in the directions camera Icons. WOW... click and it is very cool. Shows how to navigate intersections and more. Yes more... as in click at the top the "Street View" function and it will let you see where the streets have been mapped to this point.

OK... that was cool but the images are AJAX'd. You can change the ange of view... this is very cool stuff!

CF/jQuery followup

2008-06-20T00:00:00-06:00

OK... this will be where links and notes are placed as a follow up to the talk on CF and jQuery integeration at CFUnited 2008. (Note... there is a Thursday and a Saturday repeat session.)

http://www.jquery.com - main site

http://ui.jquery.com - User Interface Project

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Roadmap - UI Roadmap of things to come.

In the things to come you will find in version 1.6 (Autocomplete, Colorpicker, History, Magnifier, Progressbar, Spinner), 1.7 plans to have (CoverFlow, Layout, Grid, Menu), and 1.8 at this time plans to have (tool tips and tree). Of course the later they are the more that can be changed in added or moved features but 1.6 is pretty close to being full beta at this time. The toolbar and uploader features are in descussion still at this time. More features are depending on things like that. So a jQuery official WSYWIG editor is a thing to come when the core elements are also standard.

You might also be interested in how used a technology is. Though clearly older jQuery is closing in on the number one position with steady growth. Check this link out for some interesting stats. http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=305