• QRcfc released on RIAforge.org

    Updated: 2011-01-30 23:05:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 30 J A N 2011 QRcfc released on RIAforge.org Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : ZXing Java Coldfusion I've released the first version of a ColdFusion QR barcode generator on http : qrcfc.riaforge.org It is a CFC based wrapper for the Google ZXing barcode Java library http : code.google.com p zxing There is a demo here : ColdFusion QR barcode generator This demo above is a form that allows you to pick a format and post the required data to qr.cfc' . qr.cfc then uses the javaloader library http : javaloader.riaforge.org to load in two jar files that translate the argument strings into a bitmatrix , which you can output as a QR image . It requires at least a JVM of 1.5 to be running ,

  • Using ColdFusion to see Java server values

    Updated: 2011-01-30 19:40:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 30 J A N 2011 Using ColdFusion to see Java server values Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Java Coldfusion I've been dabbling in more and more Java recently as an accompaniment to my using ColdFusion development , and I've been finding more and more places where they support each . other I rolled out a new Application to a live server this one and it failed to launch . This was all down to it running an incompatible JVM . So how do you tell what JVM version your server is running I don't have direct access to this box , so I needed to do it in . code We are going to use ColdFusion to create a java system' object and call the getProperties method on it . This is using the standard

  • Mobile Media Touch

    Updated: 2011-01-28 23:41:49
    , SlideShare . Present . yourself Home Go Pro Channels Events Upload Login Login Signup Advertise Mobile , Media Touch 3 months ago Email Favorite Favorited Ø Download Embed More Embed this presentation Copy the code below and paste it into your . website Customize Without related content For WordPress.com blogs Close We have emailed the verification download link to Login to your email and click the link to download the file directly . To request the link at a different email address , update it . here Close Validation . messages Success . message Fail . message Check your bulk spam folders if you can't find our . mail Loading Flash Player 9 or above is needed to view presentations . We have detected that you do not have it on your computer . To install it , go here Ø Like this

  • Google Chart Tools Image Charts aka Chart API Google Code

    Updated: 2011-01-28 23:41:45
    My favorites English Sign in Skip to page content Skip to main navigation e.g . adwords or open source Google Chart Tools Image Charts aka Chart API Home Docs FAQ Forum Terms How Do I Start Read the Getting Started . page Look at some charts in the gallery Try making your own chart on our chart wizard Prerequisites To use this API , you should have a little HTML experience a little patience to read the documentation and a little persistence to keep trying if your first charts don't look as you expect them . to A Note to Previous Chart API Users We've completely reorganized the documentation and included some exciting new pages , including a live chart design tool and a chart gallery We have also made some terminology changes in the documentation . See the release notes for full . details

  • jQuery The Write Less Do More JavaScript Library

    Updated: 2011-01-28 23:41:42
    : , , jQuery Plugins UI Meetups Forum Blog About Donate Download Documentation Tutorials Bug Tracker Discussion jQuery is a new kind of JavaScript . Library jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing , event handling , animating , and Ajax interactions for rapid web development . jQuery is designed to change the way that you write . JavaScript Lightweight Footprint About 24KB in size Minified and Gzipped CSS3 Compliant Supports CSS 1-3 selectors and more Cross-browser IE 6.0+ , FF 2+ , Safari 3.0+ , Opera 9.0+ , Chrome Grab the latest version Choose your compression : level jquery-1.4.4.min.js Production 26KB Minified and Gzipped jquery-1.4.4.js Development 179KB Uncompressed Code Download Current : Release v1.4.4 Who's using jQuery Google Dell

  • Frederick Design Studio

    Updated: 2011-01-28 23:41:38
    Matthew Frederick , Architect Frederick Design Studio RADICAL URBANISM Hudson Urbanism 101 Things I Learned TM Residential Architecture Urban and Economic Development Blog Book Series Copyright 2010 by Matthew Frederick . All rights . reserved

  • LukeW Ideation Design Digital Product Strategy Design

    Updated: 2011-01-28 23:41:37
    Copyright 1996-2011 LukeW Ideation Design unless otherwise indicated . Please contact me with any questions or . comments About 16 years of thought leadership and execution in digital product . design Learn About LukeW Writings 1,242 articles about the big picture and crucial details behind online . software Data Monday : iOS Android Differences Jan 24, 2011 Mobile UX Essentials Jan 20, 2011 See all . 2 books on Web usability , interaction , and visual . design Web Form Design 2008 Site-Seeing : A Visual Approach to Web Usability 2002 Presentations 132 presentations and workshops at over 45 cities across the . globe Mar 28-30, 2011 An Event Apart Seattle , WA Apr 11, 2011 MinneWebCon Minneapolis , MN See All .

  • Passing variables to js files inline

    Updated: 2011-01-28 00:42:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 28 J A N 2011 Passing variables to js files inline Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Javascript Ever wanted to pass a variables to a javascript file within the code You can declare JavaScript variables globally , but in this case a non technical person was editing the sites code base , so getting them to construct JavaScript variables was going to be an issue . How about passing them through within the script tag Construct your Javascript script code as usual , but append your value on the end , as per below . Also give the script tag an id . value print about ColdFISH is developed by Jason Delmore . Source code and license information available at coldfish.riaforge.org 1

  • Exploring HTML5's localStorage - Persistent Client-Side Key-Value Pairs

    Updated: 2011-01-25 16:06:00
    The other day, when building the Things I Give website and web app , I used HTML5's localStorage object for the first time. Like cookies, the localStorage object provides a way to persist string-based, key-value pairs on the client. Unlike cookies, however, these values don't have to be passed back to the server with every request. And, the localStorage ha ... ead More raquo;

  • Chroma circuit Android game review

    Updated: 2011-01-25 00:12:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 25 J A N 2011 Chroma circuit Android game review Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Mobile Android AIR I've been waiting for Bowler Hat games Chroma Circuit for a while now . It was demonstrated at Scotch on the Rocks last year , and it looked like quite an innovative mobile puzzle . game The premise of the game is that you rotate triangles with different coloured sides so that all the sides match up . It's a simple idea , but requires a logical thought process , and a bit of investigation into how to approach each . level It starts off quite basic , but quickly ramps up to provide more of a . challenge It's a good little game , I'd be happier with it if it ran in the native

  • The Coldfusion Hash() function decoded - kind of

    Updated: 2011-01-23 22:29:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 23 J A N 2011 The Coldfusion Hash( function decoded kind of Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Best practices Security Coldfusion I've always believed that using the hash( function in ColdFusion is a one way process . If I wanted to reverse a string I had to use encode( and decode( The Adobe documentation states that It is not possible to convert the hash result back to the source string Adobe Docs for Hash( Strictly speaking this is still true , but some bright spark has decided to host an MD5 string database and provide a lookup . service The Hash( function has been around for a long time , in pre ColdFusion 7 versions of it you could not specify an algorithm , so you could only

  • It is all about the punctuation

    Updated: 2011-01-22 00:01:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 22 J A N 2011 It is all about the punctuation Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : General Interest More and more recently I find myself writing documentation rather than code . I'm referring to real business documentation , rather than docs about technology . I've noticed more and more that in documents its often not what you say , but the manner in which you say it . I'm sure there are dozens of best practices for writing good business documents , things like keeping it succinct or not too flowery or overly wordy . One thing I have noticed is that my punctuation is mediocre at best . After mentioning this to a colleague he sent me the text below . It is the same text , but with

  • Pair Programming: The Ditch

    Updated: 2011-01-20 16:25:34
    Recently I’ve been working with some legacy code and have hit a situation that I’ve been in before when pair programming on such projects. Something I like to call “The Ditch.” I say legacy code because I don’t see this situation arise often in greenfield projects unless we’ve made a mistake, but I’d like to [...]

  • Dynamically adding markers to Google maps

    Updated: 2011-01-15 19:24:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 15 J A N 2011 Dynamically adding markers to Google maps Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Google AJAX Mapping JQuery Coldfusion Json Following on from a previous article I wrote about Google maps panning the next step in my Google mapping project is to be able to add markers to a Google map dynamically . This article deals with how to translate a location into a latitude and longitude using Google , and how to send and add markers from a database into a Google maps via a remote service , using AJAX and JSON . There is a full example of the finished application here : Demo of dynamically adding markers to Google maps Much like the previous article about Google map panning we have

  • How Android application memory works

    Updated: 2011-01-14 11:45:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 14 J A N 2011 How Android application memory works Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Mobile Android Flash AIR HTC A common theme with the Android software platform is memory usage . Googling Android memory' will return a load of hits on how to optimise your memory usage , or how to free up more memory . With the growth of the Application markets for Android I've been encountering more and more memory issues . Users want more Apps , and those Apps are becoming bigger and bigger , or are using third party plugins to run . To effectively develop for the Android platform you should really consider how the system memory works . I have a HTC desire , so my example is based on that

  • Google maps panning example

    Updated: 2011-01-11 23:46:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 11 J A N 2011 Google maps panning example Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : Google Mapping Javascript RIA I've been tinkering with the Google Maps Api recently , in an effort to replicate a flash project I've seen . It was a Google maps interface that used Adobe livecycle http : www.adobe.com products livecycle feeds to poll IP addresss and display them within the map interface . I liked the look of it , but wanted to create it in JQuery as it required a lot of custom server side code , and several expensive server software installations . Also I'm migrating away from the flash flex arena into a more purist JQuery AJAX development mindset . There is a full example of Google Maps

  • CSS 3 rounded corners - Background tip

    Updated: 2011-01-06 14:51:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground Home About Me Portfolio Projects Gallery Xbox 360 Contact 06 J A N 2011 CSS 3 rounded corners Background tip Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : CSS Recently I noticed a CSS issue with CSS 3 rounded corners . There are a few instances where the order of your CSS is critical to the display layer . This article deals with rounded corners and background colours . The background colour must always be assigned to the very first CSS rule . This is because each CSS background rule is essentially a layer on top of the previous one . A background colour by default covers the entire div and will layer on top of any other previously assigned background images and or colours . Therefore , if we place a colour in any div other than the first it will be

  • ColdFusion Custom Tags Cannot Act As ColdFusion Component Mixins

    Updated: 2011-01-04 15:28:00
    The other night, I was laying in bed, thinking about ColdFusion code (as I often times find myself doing), and it suddenly occurred to me that I wasn't sure of the expected behavior of ColdFusion custom tags that execute within a ColdFusion component context. Anyone who has created a user defined function (UDF) library or used free-standing functions knows that ... ead More raquo;

  • HiFi is Open to the Public

    Updated: 2011-01-04 01:07:39
    Why HiFi Features Examples Pricing Try HiFi About Blog Partners Support Contact Us Join our HiFi mailing list to receive the latest news updates HiFi is Open to the Public 4 Comment(s Posted January 3, 2011 by Clay Schossow HiFi CMS After over a year of designing , coding , planning , and beta testing , we're very excited to announce the launch of HiFi CMS . You can now Try HiFi free for 30 days As a web design firm who launches more than 100 sites per year , we recognized the need for a truly modern CMS in the market that places equal emphasis on usability , flexibility , and scalability . nbsp For the past year , our team has worked diligently to build a powerful system that could be leveraged by developers , designers , and marketers around the . world HiFi has already been used by our

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