Using Ajax in ColdFusion is simpler than most people think

I thought I would post this very quick Ajax tutorial and how easy it is to use, without using any extra frameworks or JavaScript libraries that don't already come with ColdFusion.

Coldbox plugin to help with JavaScript Management Part II

Today I want to finish of a blog post that I started a little while ago, and give a run down on how it was constructed.

Coldbox plugin to help with JavaScript Management

As most of you might have noticed I have put a new theme up on my blog, which wasn't without some challenges when I accidently broke the RSS feed :-(

I had been refactoring a lot of code to minimise the amount of code duplication as much as possible, one of the new features to the blog is a twitter feed. Now although the inclusion of this is nothing new, the code behind it uses some to help to reduce the amount of extra code that I write.

Hence a simple Coldbox plugin evolved in helping manage the JavaScript in the Application under the hood.

Cross Site Scripting, how safe is it.

This week I had the task of trying to fix a site that was moved to another location, and because the database with the sensitive data remained at another location I had to change the JSon methods that I was using.

But I stopped and thought that the amount of work I needed to do, just to fix this was too much there had to be an easier way.

And there was.

JavaScript Variable Dump in Coldfusion

Came across this handy little utility today, and it certainly will be going in my arsenal of utilities.

euDock JScript Emulation of Dock style MAC OS X bar

Every now and then you come across something that is amazing, this is no exception and mimics the Mac's X Bar. A lot of work has gone into this little utility and I thought it deserved a write up in here.