Last week at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, one of the presenters (assumedly Alex MacCaw ) mentioned that he had recently authored the book, " JavaScript Web Applications ." The book sounded interesting so I made a note to buy it off O'Reill ... ead More raquo; 
On my flights to and from cf.Objective(), I finally read Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford . I went into this book with extremely high expectations. I've been hearing about "The Good Parts" for years. Written by the famous Douglas "Papa" Crockford, this book has been recommended to ... ead More raquo; 
Tonight, I gave my Lightning Talk at cf.Objective(). With 20 slides, it was a 6:40min retrospective on the role that Love has played in my life; and, how my perception of love has evolved from something magical into something extermely empowering and deeply meaningful. While I don't have a recording of the live talk, here is a pre-recorded version of the slides with audio . ... ead More raquo; 
Why HiFi Features Examples Pricing Try HiFi About Blog Snippets Partners Support Contact Us Join our HiFi mailing list to receive the latest news updates The HiFi Snippet Library Has Launched 0 Comment(s Posted May 10, 2011 by Joel Sutherland Development HiFi CMS This morning we're making it official the HiFi Snippet Library has . launched A great thing about working with HiFi is that you can use the web technologies you know HTML CSS JS with no restrictions . Many systems say this , we actually mean it . This means that it is extremely easy to build reusable snippets that can save you all kinds of time when building your client . sites If none of this makes sense to you , hopefully we can answer your questions here . If you have any others , let us know in the . comments What is a snippet
Last year in the comments of my blog post on cleaning high ascii values out of text , Eric Stevens suggested that one might use the XML ENTITY tag in an XML document to define named data variables. I had marked this as something I wanted to look into; but, I had somewhat forgotten about until last night when ... ead More raquo; Last week, I talked about aggregating XML node text in a mixed-node ColdFusion XML document . In the comments of that post, Kirill pointed out that you could accomplish pretty much the same thing directly in the original xmlSearch() invocation using the XPath string() function. After trying this out for myself, I have to say that it is brilliant! It completely simplifies t ... ead More raquo; The other day, I was working with XML data that represented HTML markup coming back from a Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) request. By default, ColdFusion XML documents consider the XmlText value of an XML node to only be the aggregate of the text nodes that are the direct descendant of a given node. In general, this is not a problem since text nodes and element nodes are rarely combined in the same set of children. However, in an HTML-as-XML document, this kind of heterogeneity is common as ther ... ead More raquo; In my ColdFusion.js framework (a port of the ColdFusion Application Framework to Node.js) , session cookies and session tokens are implicitly managed by the underlying framework. You can, however, tell the ColdFusion.js framework not to set client cookies. In that case, the ColdFusion.js framework will associate the session based on the "this.sessionID" ... ead More raquo;