Looking through posted jobs on multiple job boards has gotten me a bit depressed.
There looks to be 100 PHP jobs for every 1 CF job. Not saying I shouldn't learn PHP, but I guess its more of a sign of the popularity of CF. There is none :(
Time for me to get out of my procedural programming techniques and jump into the 21st century. Time to get on the OO bandwagon.
For a project that I'm currently working on, it's going to be a trial by fire to absorb the contents of the blog title and be proficient...quickly!!
Kinda wish I was learning Model-Glue, but eh, either Mach-II or Model-Glue will turn my world upside down from the way I program sites now.
Scared, excited and up for the challenge!!!
I blogged a while back about trying to mash up Spry/Prototype/Scriptaculous to do an inplace-edit and an autocomplete. Unfortunately, I lost a bit of momentum using Spry for this purpose because we're not using Spry in the office.
I picked up the ball to use just Prototype/Scriptaculous for our needs. What I found out was that there was a bit of a disconnect with Scriptaculous' Ajax.Autocompleter and Ajax.InPlaceEditor (to complete what I needed done).
What I needed: The ability to Add a Tag to a profile with InPlaceEditor but, I didn't want to have multiple versions of the same tag. (Ex. Dog, Dogs, Doggie) I needed to give the person who's inputting a new tag the ability to see tags that are similar to what he/she is currently typing.
Scriptaculous' Ajax.InPlaceEditor builds a form with an input or a textarea on the fly when you click on a link. Awesome! The only issue is that the
With this knowledge, I had to make a change to Scriptaculous' library: contols.js. I am using the latest 1.8.0 version, so here is where I made my change at around line 551:
Now I can continue with the Ajax.Autocompleter to target the INPUT field. But wait...There's a hangup :(
The generated form and the autocomplete execute almost simultaneously and there's an error. My Ajax.Autocompleter is complaining that the INPUT field that I am targetting doesn't exist? Huh? Doesn't exist? OH YEAH!! Need to do this in sequence :) My fix was to put a short setTimeOut function to execute the autocomplete library AFTER the INPUT field has been generated.
PHEW!! What a pain that was. But, hey, I learned alot with this little exercise. I'm almost certain that someone out there has done this before and probably did it better than me. If so, please point me in that direction :)
Here's the demo: Ajax.Autocompleter + Ajax.InPlaceEditor
(Try: Chris or phil or Boot or Hal)
Anyone else getting this? I was getting this pre and post hotfix installations.
After toying around with MangoBlog by ASFusion, I've decided to go back to the tried and true BlogCFC. My last time using Ray Camden's blog engine was 5.0. Now that I'm on 5.9, I can see that there's many more options added than what I remember.
I think the only thing missing from BlogCFC is a Rich Text Editor like TinyMCE or FCKEditor. I know that FCKEditor is built into Coldfusion 8.0, so maybe the next iteration of BlogCFC will incorporate this feature (of course that'll probably push everyone to upgrade from previous versions of CF).
I'm going to have to spruce up the look and feel of the default BlogCFC engine with a new skin. I'll take advantage of my downtime (read: sick from a cold) to make this look prettier :)
