http://www.acheron.org/darryl AJAX, ColdFusion and Web technology... Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:51:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the guys at work found this cool SWT control that allows you to create dynamic grids/tables. It is called KTable, and is pretty much the de facto standard when you need to construct tables with variable row sizes and spanning columns/rows. http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/10/01/ktable-swt-control/ I've got to share this quote from Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc. I don't know if he said this exactly, but according to the YUI Blog: Blank web pages are fast. Web pages become slow because you put stuff in them. Enough said! http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/09/01/quote-of-the-year/ For quite a few years I have been a ColdFusion / Web Developer. I've got two weeks holidays, and then I will be going back to work to focus on Java (Eclipse) development. I must say I am pretty excited about this shift in direction, as I believe it will ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/09/01/a-change-of-career-direction/ I just saw a great post over at Ajaxian. It details a new jQuery plugin to easily enable sorting on a table. The features look awesome - multiple column sorting being one of them! Definately worth checking out. http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/08/26/jquery-table-sorting/ JavaScript/AJAX isn't always the best tool for the job. Over the last 2 years, I've been the principal developer on the CRM project at work. For most of that time, it has primarily been a Javscript, Web-enabled application. Recently, we have realised that we've hit the wall with what is ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/08/24/when-ajax-aint-right-for-the-job/ Well, I've been extremely busy building the next version of our internal CRM application. It's built on top of Ext (primary used for utility classes) and our own "JCP" framework (Javascript Client Platform). I'll be doing a few posts in the coming days/weeks about that, as I have got a ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/08/24/what-have-i-been-doing/ I have been using the Ext (formally yui-ext) JavaScript framework for some time now, and just recently they released a major new version. It is jam packed with goodness, including the best grid I have seen, tree, dialogs, layouts, forms, and more... If you are looking for a serious cross-browser ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/04/17/ext-10-javascript-framework-released/ The sysadmin type people at my work don’t want to move to IE7 probably until there is an SP1 release. While I understand their reluctance, it is frustrating developing for IE6 knowing that a better corporate SOE alternative exists! A lot of the leak issues we experience now will be ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/01/13/your-company-not-moving-to-ie7-in-a-hurry/ Ever thought about using Microsoft’s HTML Application (HTA) technology? If you are developing AJAX applications for internal customers and have standardized on Internet Explorer, then I would highly recommend this route. Basically, a HTA only uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine, so you don’t get any of the browser add-ons such ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/01/11/running-ajax-as-a-html-application-hta/ At last, the project I have been working on for the last 3 to 4 months has come to a close (just in time for Christmas). I’ve been working on version 2 of our internal AJAX CRM application, and it went into production last month. I did the release out of ... http://www.acheron.org/darryl/2007/01/11/i%e2%80%99ve-been-very-busy%e2%80%a6/