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Quick AngularJS Tip: Relating User Input Data to Metadata 12 Aug 2013 | 09:04 pm
I started learning AngularJS a few weeks back because I thought it would work well for an internal tool I was building (more on that in a later post). Many AngularJS examples, including those in the ...
Follow Up Post: Hiding All But The Current Bootstrap Popover 22 May 2013 | 08:55 pm
Last year around this same time, I published a blog post about a technique I developed for creating multiple Twitter Bootstrap popovers. I came up with the technique while building a page containing ...
Quick CFML Tips: Script-based Queries And Tag/Script Hybrid CFCs 29 Apr 2013 | 05:45 pm
While refactoring a particular process in a ColdFusion project at work, I learned two things I thought worth passing on: 1. There are certain scenarios where doing queries in cfscript, instead of us...
Overcoming the Cookie Size Limit When Using jQuery DataTables and Saved State 11 Apr 2013 | 05:56 am
One of the features of the jQuery DataTables plugin is that you can use the configuration option "bStateSave" to store the current view of the table (the sort order, the number of rows displayed, the ...
Adding Oracle Support to BugLogHQ: How the Application Design Made it Easy 6 Mar 2013 | 11:40 pm
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, in order to try out BugLogHQ in my work environment, I knew I would have to update the code so it could run against Oracle database tables. So I started looki...
Need A CF App for Tracking Errors From Multiple Applications? Check Out BugLogHQ 6 Mar 2013 | 12:50 am
Last month, during a brief lull in my work projects, I decided to tackle an issue I'd been putting off for awhile: finding a better way of managing errors caught and reported by my ColdFusion applica...
Some Words About the New jQuery Plugins Registry 21 Jan 2013 | 08:20 pm
In case you missed it, last week the jQuery team announced the launch of the long-awaited jQuery Plugin Registry (http://plugins.jquery.com/). This new site is designed to address the issues that wer...
dirtyFields jQuery Plugin Updated with New Options/Functions 16 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
I've made some updates to my dirtyFields jQuery plugin. Here's the rundown: Added two new public functions: getDirtyFieldNames() returns an array of all currently dirty fields. updateFormState() c...
Quick ColdFusion Tip: Use ClearParams() When Doing SQL Inserts in a Loop 29 Nov 2012 | 06:21 pm
Today I had the need to write code that would loop over a recordset, parse the data in each iteration, and then insert the transformed data into another table.ﾠ Nothing I haven't done countless times,...
Quick Tip: Returning a Substring From an Oracle/MySQL Text Field (From the Start Or the End) 13 Nov 2012 | 06:08 pm
In addition to the normal aggregate functions (Count, Sum, Avg, etc.), most database implementations of SQL also include functions for manipulating string values. One of those is substr(), which allo...
