LVL3 CFer LFJ and LFH
- June 25, 2009 6:00 PM
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If you're not following my tweets, on Monday I joined the trendy new subculture know as "the unemployed". I've always had a note that I'm available for projects, but now I'm officially Looking for Job (LFJ). If you've got a project that could use an certified advanced CF developer with 3 years experiance, I'd love to hear about it :)
Additionally, my current predicament leaves me Looking For Hosting (LFH) for both this blog and my Father's photograph website. I had been receiving free hosting from my previous employer, but thats going to run out in really short order. If you have a recommendation for cheap hosting, I'd love to hear about that too.
Its happened to everyone working with Javascript: you build your test app that handles clicks on elements to do really neat things and everything's going great. You move it live, and as the data starts coming in your app gets slower and slower until finally the system starts to become unusable. Whats the problem? In testing you had maybe five or ten clickables, but your app has been growing, and you've now got 20, 60, 120 or more, and the time it takes to bind all of your click events is skyrocketing. What if you could just use a single handler for all of them?
If there is one problem that plagues me across applications, its users that are too antsy to wait for the page to come back after hitting submit on a form. Even worse, some people just instinctually double and triple click. How do you keep these pesky users from duplicating records or charging themselves three times for that item in your e-shop? Click "more" to see how I do it in Prototype and jQuery.
As some of you might know, my work place is no stranger to odd server problems, such as 
I ran into an interesting situation this morning that didn't have an obvious answer. I needed to create a zip with a few specific files out of a directory with lots of possible files. The problem is that <cfzip /> is designed to work against whole directories, so at first I kept thinking that I'd have to make a temporary directory, move the files to it, and then zip the directory, but a little more persistence found the right answer.