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Packt Publishing giving away free ebooks

Anuj Gakhar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:59:47 +0000

I have been informed that as a celebration of completing 5 years, Packt Publishing are giving away free ebooks to everyone interested. I am just spreading the word here. Below is the original press release. Five years ago, Packt published its first book, Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management. In the years that followed, Packt [...]

Mazda Used Car Locator Launched

Anuj Gakhar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:22:17 +0000

I have been working on this project for the last few months and we have been successful in launching this on time as per the schedule. The URL is http://www.mazdausedcarlocator.co.uk/ – It has got both a Flex version and an HTML version. I personally love the Rich Experience (Flex version) as it provides a really smooth [...]

rubyonrails.org domain expired? really?

Anuj Gakhar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:26:55 +0000

As part of my daily journey to different sites, I tried opening rubyonrails.org 20 mins ago and found this!!! I immediately googled for this and found this TechChrunch Article. Wow, how can someone let that happen ? Amazing!

Removing NameSpaces from XML using XSLT and ColdFusion

Anuj Gakhar — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:41:42 +0000

If you are using ColdFusion XPath functions to search/parse XML strings, you will probably have come across this one at some point. Not all, but most of the XML files have namespaces in them e.g. xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”. If you use Xpath on a string that contains namespaces, chances are that you will get back the namespaces [...]

ColdFusionDocs now using Cairngorm

Anuj Gakhar — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:32:45 +0000

This weekend, I thought of revisiting the Coldfusiondocs.com application which I didn’t get the time to even touch for last so many months. I thought using Cairngorm to re-write the app would be ideal as it’s the most widely used Flex framework around. So, I went ahead and re-wrote the whole thing using Cairngorm (took me [...]

jQuery form Plugin and Return Key Submit

Anuj Gakhar — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:32:27 +0000

I have been using this excellent jQuery Form Plugin lately and I came across a little gotcha today. First of all, this jQuery Form Plugin allows you to easily and unobtrusively upgrade HTML forms to use AJAX. The main [...]

A small ColdBox Tip

Anuj Gakhar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:47:39 +0000

I have been using ColdBox for a few months now and I absolutely love it. Althought I havent used all the features it has to offer, I like the URL rewriting feature a lot. In one of my projects, my routes.cfm had quite a few routes added that looked like this. addRoute(pattern="contactus", handler ="ehPages", action="dspStatic") Now, basically, what [...]

Using jQuery to change part of the className attribute

Anuj Gakhar — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:55:22 +0000

I had a situation today, where I wanted to replace part of the class of a given DOM element. To be more precise, the DOM element I was dealing with was like this :- <li class="my-tabs"> <div class="boxes"> <div class='grey-top-left boxes blue'/> <div class="grey boxes"/> <div class="grey-bottom-left boxes blue"/> </div> <a href="">Tab 1</a> </li> And whenever the tab was clicked, I wanted to change [...]

IDE’s For Ruby on Rails

Anuj Gakhar — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:34:37 +0000

So, in an attempt to get my dev environment setup properly for RoR development, I started looking for best IDE’s for RoR development. I am a heavy Eclipse user (I use Eclipse and Flex Builder all the time), I thought there must be some Eclipse based IDE surely. And I found RadRails which is an [...]

Free Flex Builder 3 For Unemployed Developers

Anuj Gakhar — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:20:00 +0000

I just read the announcement on Ben Forta’s blog that Adobe has decided to give away Flex Builder 3 to unemployed developers so they could use their free time to develop a new skill. Well, as much as I wish that no developer ever gets unemployed, given the current economic conditions, I think you cant [...]