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We use jQuery in most of our web applications for form validation, showing/hiding content, and the like. With the release of our new mobile site, we were faced with a set of challenges specific to mobile applications, and we used jQuery to address a number of them. Heavy Content When developing for the the limited bandwidth [...]
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I admit that getting excited about the wireframes for the online application is pretty lame, but our on-line app has been stuck in the stone ages (I mean pre-AJAX days!!) for so long, it’s exciting to see the process more forward for the redesign. We have partnered with our friends at New City Media to [...]
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To increase the security of your Coldfusion apps, be sure to check the “Show Advanced Settings” button when creating a new DSN. Coldfusion Administration –> Data & Services –> Data Sources. Notice that there is a section called “Allowed SQL” By default, Coldfusion allows all the options (see above). I would suggest that you turn [...]
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I am at the CF United Conference in Washington, DC this week. It has got me thinking of all the great ways I can use CF with Ajax and especially jQuery. From some of the demos I have seen it looks like using CF to pull data in XML or JSON and using jQuery to [...]
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Since upgrading to Coldfusion 8.0.1, several of our applications that use CFImage to resize images have been broken. Adobe came out with a patch recently that I just found, and after uploading the jar file and restarting the server, things seem to be working better. If you are having similar issues, I urge you to [...]
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Well, I spent a somewhat frustrating and unproductive few hours trying to figure out how I can send a calendar item to Gmail and have it add to Google Calendar. We have a few applications that allow you to open a .vcs file and have it add to your Outlook calendar. I was hoping that [...]
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This morning I have added support for single key click access to many of the links on our mobile site. This will allow someone to more easily navigate from a cell phone. For example, to get to the campus calendar all you need to do is click the #3 key on the keypad, or to [...]
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This evening I wrote a way for my personal home page to know if there have been new stories posted onto a blog since the last time I checked it. In fact, it will find out how many stories I am missing (up to 10). Hopefully this will keep me from habitually checking blogs that [...]
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The one thing that I haven’t been able to do with my Motorola Q9m is change the Internet Explorer home page. But today I have finally figured out how to that. It requires editing the registry. Of course, Windows Mobile 6 doesn’t come with a registry editor, but I found this great program called PHM [...]
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We're the web development team for Roanoke College. Whitney focuses on design, content and social media. Michael specializes in web programming and creating custom applications. More info
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