Web Biz

Here’s a CSS stylesheet tip that I learned today: the negation pseudo-class (meaning it is followed by a colon, like :focus or :visited). What exactly is it? Well, its basically the NOT part of an if statement, if you want to think of it that way. It is extremely useful when you want to apply a style to a class or group of elements, and want to exclude some element(s).

As you might have heard, Google has joined the ranks of AOL and others with their newly released AJAX Libraries API.  What does this mean for you as a developer?  Well, Google will now provide hosting of various JS libraries.  So, you get the power of Google to serve the file to your clients, so you can depend on their reliability and incredible speed.

Have you ever wanted to know if a request is coming from an Ajax call or from a standard GET/POST from the browser when using the ColdFusion 8 Ajax functionality?

HistoryTabs.js is a Prototype class to make tabbed navigation with history management simple.  Designed for simplicity and convenient Ajax navigation using a tabbed interface that maintains the state of the  browser’s back and forward buttons. 

Interested? Read more and download HistoryTabs.

I will be giving a brief presentation at the local ColdFusion User Group meeting tomorrow on my Ext.CFC that implements the basic features of ColdFusion 8’s <CFGRID> and associated tags.  After releasing the inital CFC I began working on upgrading to the implementation to using the latest Ext 2.x - which required some minor changes.  I have also completed the basic implementation of an editable grid, but want to finish the rest of the form controls available.  So, here is the Ext.CFC upgraded to Ext 2.x with grouping ability.

If you have ever hiked long distances you realize just how important it is to pack light.  The same is true when you are carrying a lot of JavaScript on your site, especially if your site is using various JS libraries.