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I recently had to do a quick bit of coding to only accept data from a form if JavaScript was enabled.
This example starts with a form that has no action and a disabled submit button. When jQuery’s .ready() fires though it enables the submit button and attaches the appropriate action.
Please note the example file is in ColdFusion so your mileage may vary slightly for your own use.
If you have done web development on a PC in Dreamweaver you have probably used WinMerge to check for differences between local and remote files. Since I moved to the Mac a few years ago I have been neglectful in finding a similar tool for the Mac. Thanks to some changes in my current day job I now have a larger team and more of a need for getting my act together on this.
The tool I have decided on in a free one called DiffMerge. Part 1 of the install is the typical Mac install (drag a file to the Applications folder). Part 2 is a little more detailed (but dead simple). There is a readme.txt file in the installer image with instructions for copying 2 files to facilitate command line usage (You will need this for Dreamweaver).
Once you have done the installation and followed the readme.txt fire up Dreamweaver and click Dreamweaver > Preferences > File compare and set the path to your equivalent of the screenshot below:
I wrote a post a while back about a file I created to format Dreamweaver search results for printing. Recently the need arose for me to apply that same formatting to Dreamweaver’s “Checked Out By” report.
Here is what your report will look like:
Download the search_results.zip file here. It contains the files to transform both “Search Results” and the “Checked Out By” report.
*** UPDATED 2/27/2015 ***
As a security measure Chrome blocks access to local files. You must open Chrome from the command line with a flag to allow access to local files.
Follow these steps to allow local file access in Chrome on the Mac:
open /Applications/Google Chrome.app --args --allow-file-access-from-files
It’s very simple to get gmail to relay email for applications you are developing/running locally on the ColdFusion Developer Edition (at least it’s easy in CF9). Below is a screenshot of the proper settings and some notations of things to keep in mind.
Friends and family feel free to check out my wishlist:
http://www.pragprog.com/wishlist/chris-simmons-63403-de6fd2bc84
It’s not hard to figure out how to style the box that pops up when using cftooltip. It is controlled by the .yui-tt class.
/* Tool tip styling */
.yui-tt {
color: #444;
font-size:110%;
border: 2px solid #1C64D1;
background-color: #eee;
padding: 10px;
width:250px;
cursor:help;
}
But how do you style the text that is triggering the tooltip? cftooltip is going to generate a span around your text with the id of cf_tooltip_999999999 (where 999999999 is some random number). I didn’t want to add another span to the mix to provide styling so I turned to jQuery for a simple, quick solution.
In the css file I added a class:
.terms{
color:#168FC0;
border-bottom:1px dashed #168FC0;
text-decoration:none;
margin-bottom:10px;
font-weight:bold;
}
In the jQuery .ready() function I added this line:
$("[id^=cf_tooltip_]").addClass("terms");
The result is that the text which triggers all cftooltips is now controlled by the .terms class.
I’m looking for the best Firefox Add-ons for web developers.
A few things you should know about me:
Now this is where you come in… What are your favorite/most useful Firefox Ad-ins that help you get your work done on a daily basis?
Here are mine (alpha order):
Thanks, I look forward to hearing from you.
So I took some database training with Global Knowledge last week.¬ My office paid for the training.¬ Apparently that “back end” training may be all for naught though since my front end programming language is on life support.
Today’s Global Knowledge newsletter letter informed me (in very cheeky fashion) that ColdFusion is # 5 on their “Dying Technology” list:
“If any of these skills are your main expertise, perhaps it’s time to retrain.”
Here’s the whole article: http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/generic.asp?pageid=2347&country=United+States
The notion of ColdFusion being dead has been debated into the ground so I’m not going to belabor it.
IMHO, ColdFusion is the best thing that ever happened to me from an IT standpoint.¬ If you want to get things done quickly, easily and reliably use it.¬ If you are thinking of ColdFusion along with COBOL, Netware, Flannel Shirts and “Grunge” Bands From Seattle, and¬ you might want step outside your house more.¬ It’s not the mid 90’s anymore.
Yahoo has officially pulled the plug on Geocities.
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/03/rip-geocities/
I learned HTML making my Geocities site. I would love to see that brilliant collection of animated gifs and snazzy javascripts, but alas, I cannot find it anywhere in my archives. Even though the site I had there was terrible, I did learn some of the very basics constructing it.
Although I had long forgotten Geocities I definitely felt a little nostalgic when I learned of its demise.¬ Via Con Dios, Geocities.
Anyone else a little misty eyed?
Part I
I finally took the plunge and bought the upgrade to CS4 yesterday from Adobe.¬ Downloading the gi-normous 4.8 GB file was like watching my cat try to eat a chijuajua.¬ Painful.¬ I guess I could have downloaded all the trials and entered the license code, but it just feels more “official” to download the single file.¬ At $599 I need “official”.¬ Update: I moved my downloading operation to my work computer since it was dying at home.¬ Once I finally got the file downloaded though I encountered a second problem.
Part II
I have a Sandisk Cruzer (8 GB).¬ However, after trying to put the 4.8 GB file on it 10 times and getting “The disk in the destination drive is full, please insert a new disk to continue” each time I finally did some googling and realized that the problem was that by default the Cruzer is formated to FAT32 and the maximum file size for FAT32 is 4GB.¬ Here is how to reformat to NTFS.