• Mouse vs. Keyboard - Determining Click Initiator Using A jQuery Custom Event

    Updated: 2012-04-26 16:29:00
    When filling out online forms, I love to use my keyword as a means to both provide information as well as to navigate from form field to form field. This works great; but from time to time, an "itchy Tab finger" causes me to accidentally hit "Enter" on an inappropriate form element (such as a Cancel link). Falling victim to this problem the other day, I wondered if there was a way to determine which device - the mouse or the keyboard - triggered the "click" event. If I could, then I thought i ... ead More raquo;

  • JavaScript Method Context With Circular Invocation In Conjunction With Call() Or Apply()

    Updated: 2012-04-24 16:04:00
    In JavaScript, you can change part of the execution context using the call() and apply() methods . These allow you to explicitly define the binding of "this" at the time of method invocation. While I use these functions all the time, I realized recently that I was unsure what would happen if you created a circular invocation chain using an overridden ... ead More raquo;

  • How to adjust the canvas size in Visio

    Updated: 2012-04-19 16:33:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 19 A P R 2012 How to adjust the canvas size in Visio Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : General Interest Random Visio tip for today As I'm spending a lot of time in Visio at the moment If you want to resize the canvas area in Visio simply hold down the Ctrl button and move your mouse over the canvas edge . You'll see the Mouse pointer turn into a double ended arrow . Now click and drag the mouse to expand or contract the canvas . You can also rotate the canvas by doing . this Comments 0 Print Send del.icio.us Digg It Linking Blogs Answer Questions TweetBacks Comments There are no comments for this .

  • ColdFusion 10 - Don't Use Dynamic Query Values In CFLoop

    Updated: 2012-04-18 16:04:00
    As of ColdFusion 10, the "Query" attribute of the CFLoop tag can now be dynamic. That is, it can refer to a dynamic expression rather than a static name (string). At first, this seems like a really cool idea - one that you've probably even wanted over the years; but, don't do it. Using a dynamic query value forces you to, as far as I can tell, use unscoped query column values. Granted, this is just my personal opinion but, I feel very strongly that this is a bad idea. NOTE ... ead More raquo;

  • Calculating CSS Selector Specificity Using ColdFusion

    Updated: 2012-04-17 16:25:00
    Yesterday, I was working on merging some CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) rules into an HTML document, converting style sheets into inline "style" attributes. My default approach was to just inject the CSS rules in a top-down manner, which worked for the most part. But, when I was done, I realized that this methodology completely ignores the specificity of the CSS selectors. Each CSS selector has a specificity that is generally based on its use of IDs, classes, attributes, and elements. In order ... ead More raquo;

  • Archimate Architecting and Modelling tools – Built on Eclipse

    Updated: 2012-04-17 15:14:00
    , , , : Shaun Mccran My digital playground about All about me portfolio Some of my work hire me For freelance work ask me A question on formspring contact Send me an email Hide Menu 17 A P R 2012 Archimate Architecting and Modelling tools Built on Eclipse Posted By Shaun McCran Related Categories : IT Architecture Recommended Apps If you've ever wanted to design the flow of an application before launching into the code base or front end CSS then Archimate is for . you It is an open source platform that allows you to use an independent Enterprise Architecture modelling language that supports the description , analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains . Roughly translated it allows you to draw different shaped boxes with connectors to show the layout and

  • Hosting Spotlight: DotNetNuke in the Cloud

    Updated: 2012-04-12 16:35:49
    : Register Login Home Projects jQuery WebTour DotNetNuke News Home Monday , April 30, 2012 Home Projects jQuery WebTour DotNetNuke News Hosting Spotlight : DotNetNuke in the Cloud Apr 12 Written : by Joe Brinkman 4 12 2012 10:35 AM The DotNetNuke community is composed of individuals and organizations that serve a wide range of needs for DotNetNuke users . Whether it is the skin designer , module developer or web hoster , every part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem helps make it easy for our users to take full advantage of the DotNetNuke platform to run their website . In this series of posts I’ll be focusing on the hosters in our community and looking at some capabilities that make each of them . unique I recently came across a new hoster who has taken a unique approach to providing hosting

  • ColdFusion 10 - Selectively Exposing ColdFusion Component Behaviors - Part II

    Updated: 2012-04-12 16:34:00
    Yesterday, I looked at using ColdFusion 10's Closure syntax as a light-weight, class-free way to expose selective behaviors on ColdFusion components . This was inspired by a Douglas Crockford presentation that talked about giving objets only as much authority as they need to get the job done - and no more. To continue my exploration of this new top ... ead More raquo;

  • ColdFusion 10 - Selectively Exposing ColdFusion Component Behaviors With Closures

    Updated: 2012-04-11 15:26:56
    Last night, I was watching Douglas Crockford's YUI presentation, " Principles of Security ." In his talk, Crockford discusses safe "Object Systems" in which objects are given as little authority as possible in order to do their work; "as it turns out, good design uses information hiding as well as capability hiding," (Crockford, 45:24). In order to limit the exposure of object behaviors, intermediary ... ead More raquo;

  • ColdFusion 10 - ColdFusion Query Of Queries vs. Functional Programming

    Updated: 2012-04-10 16:36:00
    For years, I have been a huge fan of the ColdFusion query object and the power of ColdFusion query-of-queries. While at times, they can present some funky and irksome data-type behaviors, these query-based operations have made storing, accessing, and mutating internal data structures a thing of beauty. With the introduction of ColdFusion 10, however, I've found myself switching over much more to CFScript and functional programming. As such, I thought it would be interesting to do a quick CRUD ... ead More raquo;

  • ColdFusion 10 - Using The Group Attribute With CFLoop To Group Query Rows

    Updated: 2012-04-09 16:03:07
    Before ColdFusion 10, the "group" attribute was only available on the CFOutput tag. This attribute could be used to create pseudo "GROUP BY" behavior when outputting ColdFusion query data. With ColdFusion 10, the "group" attribute can now be used with the CFLoop tag when looping over a query object. In most cases, I prefer executing ColdFusion's query-of-queries to pr ... ead More raquo;

  • Parsing, Traversing, And Mutating HTML With ColdFusion And jSoup

    Updated: 2012-04-06 15:20:00
    Earlier this week, James Moberg asked me if I had ever used the jSoup HTML Parser with ColdFusion. Until then, I had never even heard of it; all of my experimentation with HTML parsing in ColdFusion has been done with TagSoup. Now that ColdFusion 10 allows for custom, per-application Java libraries, however, playing with JAR files is incredibly simple. So, I decided to throw it in an Ap ... ead More raquo;

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