Published at 23 June 2008
in jQuery.
I’ve been using a little jQuery on sites for a while now but hadn’t had chance to fully get to grips with it. However, I recently landed a project that needed a rich user-experience and after sitting through Neil Middleton’s presentation at Scotch it seemed that jQuery was the obvious choice.
The first place I started was with the jQuery Docs which I found to be mostly well written with some good examples provided. I was also truly amazed at the number of useful plugins available. The two I took advantage of were the jQuery Cycle Plugin and jCarousel. These saved me a lot of development re-inventing the wheel.
I also worked how to do a few things that previously I would have used the ColdFusion AJAX tags for, and it’s just as easy (when you know how) doing it all with jQuery.
All in all I’m pretty pleased with how it all worked out and I’ll definitely be using jQuery to add a little spice to projects in future.
I downloaded the beta of Versions a few days back and I really like it. It just feels… well.. Mac like. It’s easy to setup Working copy bookmarks, as it calls them, for your existing projects and just links right in.
I still use Subclipse within Eclipse for most things but I find it tends to hang when doing large commits so Versions is a real help.
Well worth a look
Published at 5 June 2008
in cfml.
Railo 3.1 will be distributed under the LGPL2 license. Professional and Community versions to merge and be hosted at JBoss.org.
JBoss.org provides a home for the development of software in open source by an open community. Including source repository, issue tracking, wiki, forums, etc.
Possible integration with Hibernate - the popular JBoss ORM - JBoss Cache, JBoss Clustering, etc.
Looking at my future hosting requirements I’m keen to see how OpenDB and Railo can perform, not purely based on cost but also as to how extensible they have both now become.
Published at 5 June 2008
in cfml.
Sitting in the Railo keynote at Scotch and they’ve just announced that they’re going Open Source with JBoss.org.
Interesting times.
Published at 2 June 2008
in mac.
Just trying out a Blogo, a desktop blogging tool for Mac. I know I haven’t been blogging much recently but maybe this could be a way to get some of those quick posts online easily.
It has a nice preview feature and fullscreen mode that hides those other distractions and lets you get on with the post.
