QuackFuzed.com is the personal ColdFusion coding blog of Matt Quackenbush. It exists primarily as a place for the author to learn, and hopefully to assist others in learning and/or avoiding some of the same pitfalls and mistakes. (Quack certainly makes enough mistakes daily to make up for the entire ColdFusion community.)
The question:
Where in the world is the next ColdBox training session going to take place?
The answer:
Like about everything else in ColdFusion, "it depends". That is, it depends upon YOU! That's right folks, YOU can have a say in where the next ColdBox training session takes place. Go right now to the ColdBox blog and voice your opinion.
Third-party software can be a great addition to your toolbox. A few great examples of that would be ColdBox, Transfer, and ColdSpring. The aforementioned are my personal favorites, since I use them together to quickly build very rich applications that would take me an eternity to build without them.
It took me years to be willing to even use third-party software because I was not the one in control. (There's also the point of wanting to build things myself for the sake of learning, but that's an entirely different topic.) Over the course of the last two-ish years, I have actually enjoyed the benefits of someone else's labor, and I am most appreciative of those who have authored and/or contributed to great projects like ColdBox, Transfer, ColdSpring and others. However, this week I ran into a perfect example of why (on occasion) third-party software really pisses me off.
The latest release of the cfUniForm custom tag library features a new jQuery plugin integration, as well as enhancements to the jQuery plugin integrations.
Dan Wilson will be presenting the cfUniForm ColdFusion tag library to the CF Meetup today (Thursday, 10/02/08) at Noon Eastern time.
cfUniForm is a ColdFusion custom tag library that generates XHTML 1.0 Strict-compliant forms for you based upon the Uni-Form markup. It also has integrated support for a number of jQuery plugins. For more information on the presentation, please visit the CF Meetup.
A week or so ago I posted about Dan Wilson's cfUniForm preso to the Hartford, CT CFUG. If you were unable to attend, no worries, as the recording is now online! View preso recording.
The v2.4 release of the cfUniForm tag library - a library of ColdFusion custom tags for quick and easy generation of XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant forms - is being made to address a couple of minor bug fixes. This will only affect forms with a class of 'blockLabels' on the fieldset, or forms that use 'top' on the 'errorMessagePlacement' attribute.
Do you want to make sexy, accessible, XHTML compliant forms without endless typing? Would you like to add widgets like masks, date pickers, time pickers to your applications with ease? Do you like accessible, feature-rich forms built with no muss, no fuss? Then be sure to block out your calendar on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 7:30PM (Eastern), and join the Hartford, CT CFUG as Dan Wilson presents the cfUniForm tag library and see awesome forms built in record time.
Wow! After Monday's v2.2 release, this makes two minor releases in two days. You'd think I have nothing better to do with my time. Here are the nitty gritty details on the v2.3 release.
Thanks to Dan Wilson for letting me know about a FireFox 3 issue with the jQuery TimeEntry plugin. To fix the issue, download the cfUniForm 2.2 release at RIAForge.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA, August 5, 2008 - ColdBox Platform Official Training Seminars today released the Course Outline for their October 2008 ColdBox Platform 101 seminar to be held in Dallas, Texas, and also announced that the Early-Bird Special Price of just $1,195 has been extended through August 31, 2008. Registrants can take advantage of this $200 savings over the full seminar price of $1,395 by completing their registration before 5PM (Pacific Daylight Time) on August 31, 2008.
