Cozmo's Dev Blog - AJAX

Transfer now works on Railo (And is Insanely fast)

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:13:00-0700

I had read on the Railo Mailing list that Transfer now works on the latest release of Railo 3.0.1.000. So I went to check it out and loaded up the TBlog example app that comes with Transfer and much to my amazement it loaded up between 3-5 seconds (with Debugging on). I went and fired up the same app on CF 8 and it took 25-30 seconds (with debugging on as well). I know that having debugging turned on (Especially with CFC's) really slows down CF serve and is in no way indicative of how the app will perform in production. That, and that there is a significant performance cost when the CF server (re)creates the Java classes... But Daaaaaa-yum! That is almost a ten fold difference. And when I am developing I almost *always* have debugging on. I have also been testing a lot of apps (mine and others) on Railo to see what works and what doesn't. So far so good. The only significant problem I have had was with how Railo handles Structures on Rick Roots ColdFusion File Manager (CFFM). But other than that, most all of the apps that are part of my day in day out work day work flawlessly with Railo. Oh yeah, the latest version of Railo supports CFAjaxProxy. That SO ROCKS!!! Way to go Gert, Michael and the rest of the Railo Crew! I CANNOT WAIT to see Railo 3.1 on Nov 28.

CF 8 at work!!! YES!!!

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:39:00-0700

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!!!!

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:53:00-0700

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?

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:05:00-0700

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

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:56:00-0700

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::

         Name   Salary   Extension   Start date  
    Bloggs, Fred   $12000.00   1353   18/08/2003  
    Turvey, Kevin   $191200.00   2342   02/05/1979  
   Mbogo, Arnold   $32010.12   2755   09/08/1998  
     Shakespeare, Bill   $122000.00   3211   12/11/1961

Ajax Rules

Name	Salary	Extension	Start date
Bloggs, Fred	$12000.00	1353	18/08/2003
Turvey, Kevin	$191200.00	2342	02/05/1979
Mbogo, Arnold	$32010.12	2755	09/08/1998
Shakespeare, Bill	$122000.00	3211	12/11/1961