Windows Vista Screen Saver Problems
Posted by Stephen Weyrick | Tags: vista
Last Month I purchased a new labtop which came with Windows Vista pre-installed. I haven't had any problems with the labtop or Vista; however, I couldn't get the screen saver to turn on automatically. After researching and troubleshooting, I realized that it stopped working when I plugged in my 'Microsoft' usb optical mouse. It seems absurd to me that a Microsoft hardware product wasn't tested on Windows Vista before being released (sarcasm).
Organizational Development
Posted by Stephen Weyrick | Tags: coldfusion
This morning I was browsing through blog posts on Hal Helms website, and I came across his Organizational Development Maturatity Chart and Definitions. It was really interesting to compare my place of work with the definitions listed below the chart. I think that my shop is at the dangerous two position. We have employed and recognize the benefits of OO design, but we find it difficult to learn more without an expert mentor. We continually debate about whether our designs are consistant with current OO best practices or not. I wrote this post to ask the ColdFusion community for references to books, articles, or topics related to OO design. What would be the best approach to understanding OO in ColdFusion and what kind of resources would be best to use?
Using jQuery to Grab CSS Child Elements
Posted by Stephen Weyrick | Tags: jquery
In my second jQuery post, I am going to attempt to style a table by grabbing the child elements under a CSS class. Here is my normal html table with a CSS class '.something' applied to it. The table has header tags as well as a caption.
Adding jQuery CSS Class
Posted by Stephen Weyrick | Tags: jquery
Every month my work sends our team to the Coldfusion Users Group in Sacramento California. This month the presentation was on jQuery which included specific examples and showed how useful jQuery can be in almost any situation. I decided to take it upon myself to learn some jQuery, and I will be posting about my experiences over the next few months.
Looping Over Dynamic Value Form Fields
Posted by Stephen Weyrick | Tags: coldfusion
After posting on cftips.net for six months, I decided to create my own blog so that I could post my own entries and create my own plugins for mango blog. In my first blog post, I am going to talk about looping over dynamic values in a form field. I have never done this before, and I thought that it would be something fun to learn in my free time when I'm not under the gun at work.