Adobe Certification

Well, I'm certifiable. Advanced Adobe ColdFusion 7 Certified that is. I passed the test with a score of 93%, which makes me only one questions short of tying for highest score out of my office. What does that mean? Well I can now go to CFUnited this year, and I got a free lunch from my boss.

Time to tack that onto the resumè.

 

Prototype.js on IE smashed by id="tblStudents"

Ok, so here is the weirdest IE bug I've ever seen.... the weirdest by far. I was trying to get some sortable table code up and running and after I got it going in FireFox, IE 7 was throwing fits. I narrowed it down to a specific instantiation of the table that I had on my page, and then started hacking things out. I pulled out all my custom DisplayTable code. I remove all of my custom code completely. I removed Scriptaculous.

Turns out IE has a weird behavior where it adds a global scope variable with the same name as any id, so that you can just say tblStudents.innerHTML = 'whatever' without needing to fetch the element. My lack of a var keyword before my variable ment it was trying to reference that variable and causing a conflict.

 

Prototype Based State Manager

I've known that you could use anchor tags as a way to manage the state of a Javascript application for a while now, but I've never really messed with how that is actually setup. I got bored on Friday, and this is what I came up with.

 

ColdFusion Certification... 7 or 8?

I've been trying hard to get studied up in preparation for taking my ColdFusion Certification test. While I'm not too worried about passing, I'm dead set on getting an Advanced Certification, and thats not quite as easy. One of my coworkers already got his advanced with a score of 95%... tough act to follow!

I'm also wrestling with the idea of going straight to the CF8 test. I've got a good understanding of the updates and changes, and the test is going to be useful for much longer, but my company is only requiring CF7. Paired with the fact that no good study materials have been made for 8 yet, and I'm worried that I could fail if I go that extra mile.

Tough call.

 

Warcraft Killed the Programming Star

Not that I'm really a star, but its true... getting back into playing World of Warcraft has curbed the time I spend tinkering with stuff in the evenings. Expect more about Image.cfc soon though and the extended version which has my current batch of image effects and a few new ones.

 

Jaxer By Aptana

While I'm a CF programmer, I'm really interested in facilitating user experiences, and that has invariably led me to a love of Javascript. Now Aptana has announced a really spiffy server called Jaxer that allows you to run JS on the server side and have it automatically synced to the client side. Its pretty wild stuff. You can read more about it here.

As soon as this is out for IIS, I'll be all over it.

 

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Jon Hartmann, July 2011

I'm Jon Hartmann and I'm a Javascript fanatic, UX/UI evangelist and former ColdFusion master. I blog about mysterious error messages, user interface design questions, and all things baffling and irksome about programming for the web.

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