Posted on February 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM in
ColdFusion, Transfer
Over the years it seems that threads on two topics appear over and over again on various mailing lists and forums: code generation and object validation. Paul Marcotte recently released his Metro project which provides an answer to both of these topics. Metro takes advantage of features in Transfer and ColdSpring that are leveraged to help the developer get an application up and running in short order.
In this post, I want to focus on the second topic I mentioned earlier, that being object validation, so let's get to it.
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Posted on February 27, 2009 at 7:34 AM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
One of the questions that I have been asked repeatedly is
"Why does the cancel button still submit the form?"
Well, as of today, you have the option of changing that behavior.
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Posted on February 25, 2009 at 10:00 PM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
Well, after several months of getting no love, cfUniForm has seen a flurry of activity in the last week. This evening I have released the latest and greatest, v3.2, which addresses a couple of bugs and adds a brand new enhancement.
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Posted on February 22, 2009 at 9:10 PM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
I have just added a snippets folder to the cfUniForm download zip file with some basic snippets to help you build your cfUniForm-powered forms even faster. To use them, simply copy the folder to your CFEclipse install and refresh your snippets in CFE.
Posted on February 22, 2009 at 8:41 PM in
Uni-Form Tag Library
cfUniForm FAQs
In most cases, the questions that I receive about cfUniForm are already answered by looking at the demo code in the cfUniForm demos section, but as cfUniForm has grown, there seem to be more and more questions coming in that are not explicitly answered in the demos. So, today I added an FAQ page. If you have questions about how to use the library, I recommend a 5-step process to finding the answer:
- Look at the demos and the demo code
- Read the FAQs
- Read the "use example" comments at the top of each file in the library
- Read my blog
- Send me your question via the contact page
Live Examples?
I have received a number of cfUniForm examples from different people that are quite cool. They could serve as excellent examples of not only cfUniForm, but of the various use cases that developers encounter in their day-to-day work and of the mad skillz and creativity used in providing a solution to the use case. Unfortunately, many of them are "behind closed doors" and/or still in development and not yet ready for public consumption. If you have public-facing examples of cfUniForm-powered forms that you would like to show off, submit the URLs and I'll add them to the list in the demos section.
It figures that a couple hours after I release cfUniForm v3.0 that jQuery would announce their 1.3.2 release. As a result, I have released cfUniForm v3.1, which now includes jQuery 1.3.2.
As always, be sure to check out the demos and download the latest.
Thanks to the combination of the holidays and a huge workload, it has been a few months since the last significant update to cfUniForm. During this time there have been updates to the Uni-Form markup/CSS as well as to jQuery and several of the integrated plugins. I finally decided to sit down and take the time to update cfUniForm to include all of these various updates.
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