CF 8 at work!!! YES!!!
We pitched CF 8. Not really. The topic came up and our CTO looked at the specs and was all over the Exchange integration. His words "This is Huge".
Cold fusion is the best web app server there is. Period.
I am a beta tester for ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio) WOOO WOO!!!!
I have been itching to look at the new features that I have been reading about on the blogs. So I said what the hell and signed up. (pops). It probably helped that I worked for a Management Consulting firm with a slick web site. Anyways CF 8 Rocks!
Some of the stuff that I liked was:
- The native AJAX and SPRY support.
- RSS support
- CFIMAGE
- Menu building via cfmenu
- Zip support via cfzip
- .NET support
- Support for Exchange Server inclusing support for calendar functions, contacts, tasks and so forth.
- Native support for PDF forms and PDF manipulation such as merging documents and filling in and submitting PDF forms
Another this is that is very cool is the Eclipse Plug-ins with CRUD builders for CF and FLEX using the ColdFusion/Flex Application wizard
It also has a full featured debugging environment much like the one for Flex builder and MS Visual Studio
And tons more... I am short on time and I just got it yesterday. More to come.
Are we in the early stages of a Renaissance?
It is almost as if the web has been just incubating for the last ten or twelve years and then all the sudden it seems to be just bounding with innovation (or I was just too far into my depression and/or too busy building the business this last year to notice). It is like it is in the early stages of a renaissance. Sure some cool things came out like .NET, SOA, PHP and MySQL 5, XHTML and Web Services over the last several years. But for the most part it was business as usual. It was mostly back end stuff; new features to old stand bys or different ways of doing the same old stuff. Nothing really exciting was coming out. The basic mechanics of web development has not really changed all that much since the the late 90's. If you really look at it, there was a markup language (html or xhtml), CSS, graphics, flash, JS on the front end and a scripting language and a database on the back end. The only really major turning point was when Netscape died and pretty much enabled cross browser CSS and JS (Well, sort of).
But now it seams like a FLURRY of developments and innovations are all happening all at once: AJAX, FLEX, Apollo, Flash 9, a bazillion Frameworks, ZK, Ruby on Rails, Eclipse, more web development plug-ins for firefox than you can shake a stick at, and so on and so forth....
These are some really exciting times and I am totally pumped about being a web developer. I am so overwhelmed and excited about it I just don't know where to start with all the new toys I have to play with. I have a hard time getting to sleep knowing about all these new toys... It is like everyday is Christmas Eve and I am 7 yrs old all over again....
I am a luck man because I wake up each and every day looking forward to the wonders that the new day will bring.
Sorting a table client side using one line of code
This little Java script allows you to sort a table client side using one line of code.
Here is an Example. Just click on the table headers.
In order to do this all you need to do is include the above JavaScript file. To enable the table all you have to do is assign it a unique ID and have the class="sortable". Like such::
<InvalidTag type="text/javascript" src="js/sorttable.js"></script>
<table id="t1" class="sortable">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
<th>Extension</th>
<th>Start date</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Bloggs, Fred</td>
<td>$12000.00</td>
<td>1353</td>
<td>18/08/2003</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Turvey, Kevin</td>
<td>$191200.00</td>
<td>2342</td>
<td>02/05/1979</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mbogo, Arnold</td>
<td>$32010.12</td>
<td>2755</td>
<td>09/08/1998</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Shakespeare, Bill </td>
<td>$122000.00</td>
<td>3211</td>
<td>12/11/1961</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table id="t1" class="sortable">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
<th>Extension</th>
<th>Start date</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Bloggs, Fred</td>
<td>$12000.00</td>
<td>1353</td>
<td>18/08/2003</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Turvey, Kevin</td>
<td>$191200.00</td>
<td>2342</td>
<td>02/05/1979</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mbogo, Arnold</td>
<td>$32010.12</td>
<td>2755</td>
<td>09/08/1998</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Shakespeare, Bill </td>
<td>$122000.00</td>
<td>3211</td>
<td>12/11/1961</td>
</tr>
</table>
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