Charlie Griefer

The Nicest Thing Anybody's Said About Me in a Long Time...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:57:00 -0500

you're like the herpes of the internet, theres 50000000 CF forums and everytime i read a thread going "ah this is the issue i have, i really don't want to do it this particular way" there you are answering why you should do it like that, very ann...

Flash Running on the iPhone

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:17:00 -0500

In light of the recent news regarding Apple's modification of their ToS regarding how iPhone (and now iPad) applications can be developed... what seems to be a thinly veiled effort to specifically undermine Adobe's attempts to bring Flash to those de...

Uninstalled Mozy or Carbonite on OS X? Read This.

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:13:00 -0500

A few months back I had tried out both Mozy and Carbonite for OS X. I wanted some assurance that if a comet crashed into my house, my files would survive. Long story short, neither of them really fit the bill, so I ended up uninstalling both of the...

FlashCamp San Francisco: April 16th, 2010

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:25:00 -0500

Mike Chambers has officially announced FlashCamp San Francisco for the evening of April 16th, 2010 at the Adobe offices on Townsend Street. What is it? FlashCamp San Francisco is a free one night event hosted by Adobe covering everything you ne...

TextMate - My New IDE of Choice

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:10:00 -0500

A little less than a year ago I made the switch to OS X and treated myself to a Macbook Pro. Just recently, I started working with the TextMate IDE on a current contract. My first impression was less than stellar. Visually, TextMate is pretty sp... [More]

Light Blogging - What's Been Going On

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:09:00 -0500

For a while there, I was in a groove. Not a Nadel or Camden-like groove, but I was posting frequently enough that I no longer felt pangs of guilt over my poor neglected blog. But it's been weeks since my latest entry. What's up? As of October 2...

Backing Up Hidden Files/Folders with Mozy

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:12:00 -0500

A few months back, I started using Mozy for off-site backups of my important files and folders. Back then, I stumbled across a way to back up hidden files and folders (such as the apache folder on OS X). A friend noticed that I had this set up, a...

jQuery - Ensuring Unique Usernames in Real Time

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:40:00 -0500

A question came up yesterday on the cf-talk mailing list. The question involved a user who is filling out a form and choosing a user name. The poster wanted to check in "real time" (after the blur event on the username input) that the name is uniqu... [More]

Los Angeles Bound... MAX Here I Come

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:04:00 -0500

Finishing up some last-minute packing before heading off for Adobe MAX tomorrow morning. Saving a few dollars (I think... the price of gas might actually prove otherwise) by driving instead of flying. I like the convenience of having a car at the...

jQuery - A Traversal Quickie

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:37:00 -0500

Paraphrased from the jQuery mailing list: I have a table with links inside of it. Each <tr> has a unique ID assigned to it. How can I get the ID of the <tr> that contains the link that was clicked? The following code snipp... [More]

jQuery - What You Can do with the Data Method

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:06:00 -0500

A question came up yesterday on the jQuery mailing list where somebody wanted to effectively "embed" data into a link. They essentially wanted to call a function on click, but needed to pass arguments. Since jQuery is supposed to be unobtrusive (e.... [More]

ColdFusion and jQuery - New tutorial(s) on LearnCF.com (Part 3)

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:54:00 -0500

The long-awaited and eagerly anticipated (by me) conclusion to my 3-part tutorial on learncf.com on using jQuery to return JSON data from a ColdFusion CFC. The tutorial can be found here. When all is said and done, you'll have built this page, an...

jQuery - Dynamically Adding Form Elements

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:34:00 -0500

You know the situation. You have a form with 'x' number of text inputs. Eventually, you realize 'x' may not be enough for all users. But in the interest of keeping the page clean, you don't want to arbitrarily continue to add these elements. Wh... [More]

Remembering

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:27:00 -0500

ColdFusion and jQuery - New tutorial(s) on LearnCF.com (Part 2)

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:20:00 -0500

Part 2 of what is now a 3-part tutorial on using jQuery and ColdFusion has been posted to http://www.learncf.com. To recap, Part 1 showed how to use jQuery's getJSON() method to pull data from Twitter's public API. The current installation show...