http://www.macromedia.com/ UK Blogregator aggregated and re-syndicated feed en-us UKCFUG 2008-09-08T05:05:00+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Round 2 of my blog round up.... I was worried at the beginning of the week that I wouldn't find enough blogs to manage to keep this up for a second week, given that I covered an entire month in my first round up!  However, my fears have been unfounded!  There's been a plethora of posts to round up! Ok this is a set of blog posts that were interesting to me for a couple of reasons. Its a neat little javascript calculator and there's some interesting CSS/layout discussions here. It all started f http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=31B598BF-F1FF-921E-1517403FA712F093 North West England Stephen Moretti 2008-09-05T08:30:07+10:00 Book reviewer Marcos Placona | Publisher: Packt. Author(s): Jonathan Chaffer and Karl Swedberg JQuery is one of the coolest JavaScript libraries ever released, and has been growing massively on the Web Development scene since it's release in early 2006. As a big fan of JavaScript libraries, I decided to write this book review. "Learning jQuery" is a great complement to jQuery's official documentation, having a nice and clean structure all the times within the book The book is divi http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=32685854-F1FF-921E-1785DC684C4292F9 London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-05T04:47:00+10:00 Let me start with, this joke is about Polo's so in an effort to do some trans-atlantic translations I think these are known as Life Saver in the US. Enjoy! A college professor was doing a study testing the senses of first year schoolchildren, using a bowl of fruit Polos. He gave all the children the same kind of Polo, one at a time, and asked them to identify them by colour and flavour. [More] http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=314778EA-F1FF-921E-1287C56D595989C6 South East England Andy Jarrett 2008-09-05T01:48:00+10:00 ... at A Wee Dram of Scotch. Yes, those who attend A Wee Dram of Scotch will be the first to find out the venue, dates and pricing for Scotch on the Rocks 2009. Additionally, if you're at A Wee Dram, then you will automatically get 10% off the... http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2E98A94E-F1FF-921E-1F90411B161EC8CB Scotland Creative Restraint 2008-09-04T18:46:00+10:00 ... at A Wee Dram of Scotch. Yes, those who attend A Wee Dram of Scotch will be the first to find out the venue, dates and pricing for Scotch on the Rocks 2009. Additionally, if you're at A Wee Dram, then you will automatically get 10% off the... http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2E98A99C-F1FF-921E-10F774E61B66B086 Scotland Creative Restraint 2008-09-04T18:46:00+10:00 I've seen some code out there for this, but I've not managed to Google anything I like. My version uses HTML's Definition Lists. <DL>, <DT> and <DD>. Click on one of the questions below to see it in action. $(document).ready(function(){ $("dt").click(function () { dtId = $(this).attr("class"); if ($("dd").is(":visible ")) $("dd").slideUp("fast"); $("#"+dtId).slideDown("fast"); }); }); dd{display:none;} Question 1 FAQ Answer 1: Lorem ipsum dolor http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2FA076C1-F1FF-921E-1F41D633714F5A2D South East England Andy Jarrett 2008-09-04T17:57:00+10:00 We are happy to announce that the Adobe ColdFusion 8 tag posters are being shipped out to a CFUG near you. You will want to get your hands on one soon.... as you can see the CF8 tag posters are a great addition to office decor ;) The User Groups have been sent a limited number of tag posters, so we are offering to send you your very own for free! Just fill out the following survey and you get your tag poster in the mail. http://cfunited.com/go/survey/cf8-tag-poster Due to http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2F14E09F-F1FF-921E-1A7D9718ECA33254 London CFUnited Blog 2008-09-04T16:00:00+10:00 This is a very quick and dirty example of how to treat links on your blog / website using JQuery. I've been using JQuery for a while now to ease my life with some personal applications and at work. One of the greatest things about JQuery in my opinion is it's great interaction with the DOM, and ability to make global changes with very little effort. Some time ago I've implemented a simple WYSIWYG editor on my blog to facilitate tasks like text format and link creation. Link creation http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2DAFD117-F1FF-921E-18B7B8AD3F93B36D London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-04T06:35:00+10:00 Well known in the ColdFusion community, Charlie Arehart has come up with the new CF411 site It counts with an extraordinary amount of tools and resources related to the CFML Language. Text extracted from the website: How often do you see a question asked on a list, "does anyone know where I can find CFML resources about xxx", or "what tools are available to do yyy?". Now you have one place you can point people to answer most such questions. Well done Charlie! http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2CB89F2B-F1FF-921E-1FAEBE50A4E1F92F London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-04T02:26:00+10:00 This is gonna be pretty much a rant about my terrible experience with the so acclaimed Chrome, released yesterday. As soon as I heard the "buzz" about the new browser, I was excited to have it installed as soon as possible. Yes, this kind of thing sounds like a great treat for us geeks IT Professionals. Before I start to name things, it's important to mention that Chrome can just be installed on Windows platform at this very moment. I'd say it's not the most wise decision, but they s http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=279261B0-F1FF-921E-1AB564806BF4EDAF London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-03T01:11:00+10:00 A while ago I heard Google may be working on a browser, but on arriving in the office this morning I find out that Google Chrome is due to launch today, this moring all I could find was the ‘comic book’ talking Google Chrome up and highlighting the features it will have. Well now [...] http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=24752FB5-F1FF-921E-1200C920E8917981 London John Bs personal Blog 2008-09-02T19:01:37+10:00 Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Yours truly is now an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion here in the UK. That's about it really. http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=24307BF0-F1FF-921E-1950F370E9235407 Scotland Creative Restraint 2008-09-02T18:07:00+10:00 Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Yours truly is now an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion here in the UK. That's about it really. http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=24307C00-F1FF-921E-1F7AD06257F8A792 Scotland Creative Restraint 2008-09-02T18:07:00+10:00 Direct from Adobe: "Academic institutions are experiencing increasing demand for students to develop ColdFusion skills earlier in their education to meet the high workforce demand for rich Internet application developers. Launched today to help fill this demand, Adobe makes ColdFusion 8 available for free to students and educators. Faculty can now easily integrate ColdFusion into their curriculum, enabling students to advance their Web application learning more quickly and easily and http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=23D03E2F-F1FF-921E-1F026A9F7A59F510 Expats Simon Horwith 2008-09-02T09:00:00+10:00 Well, for the well informed people, you may already know that Google will launch a new browser today called Chrome. I was looking for some more information about it, and came across this interesting list, with the 20 things you need to know about Chrome I'm gonna post the top 10 here, and you can read the others via Techradar 1. Google Chrome is built using WebKit, which also powers Apple's Safari and Google's Android. 2. Google Chrome is beta, and currently only available for Windows. http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2355599D-F1FF-921E-1FEDDC4842CFEB9A London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-02T06:39:00+10:00 Today, Adobe has finally released the portal for educators and students as previously mentioned at the CFUnited 2008. It's great news, as Adobe will finally be able to target the Universities and Schools with ColdFusion, and maybe in a near future our kids will be able to learn some ColdFusion in school ;-) A friend of mine has been working with Universities since the beginning of this year and has recently had some success with over 28 university students learning ColdFusion http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=233A06BD-F1FF-921E-18C9A3047A7937EA London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-02T06:08:00+10:00 On the last week, Wee Dram has been announced. It's organized by the same guys doing Scotch On The Rocks, so it's a "must go". This time it's gonna be in London at the Square Pig, in Holborn, and it's a replacement for the sadly cancelled CFDEVCON. Some of the CFDevcon's US speakers will be there, as well as all the great European speakers we already know. I'll post some information here about what will happen there: Where: Square Pig 30 - 32 Proctor Street Holborn London WC1 http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=225081FA-F1FF-921E-16D3D5F4E2D7CB8E London Marcos Placonas Blog 2008-09-02T01:39:00+10:00 From the title of the posting I’m not quite an ACE, (Adobe Certified Expert) rather I’ve been invited to join the Adobe Community Experts program, along with two others in the UK, who will of course blog in due course. Before I announced this in public I wanted to make sure my name was put up on the site and indeed it his here. So how did I get this prestige invite well from all the hard work I’ve but into Scotch on the Rocks, UKCFUG and of course other little event http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=2001BAE7-F1FF-921E-135C44B1D30E99E0 London Inner-Rhythm 2008-09-01T23:10:00+10:00 Registration for A Wee Dram of Scotch is now open, and places are limited. The final speaker lineups consists of Adam Lehman, Claude Englebert, Sean Corfield, Peter Bell, Mark Drew, Gert Franz and Kurt Wiersma. Head over to the website fo... http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=1F77FD1F-F1FF-921E-1E9D8372F0BF2F35 Scotland Creative Restraint 2008-09-01T20:17:00+10:00 Registration for A Wee Dram of Scotch is now open, and places are limited. The final speaker lineups consists of Adam Lehman, Claude Englebert, Sean Corfield, Peter Bell, Mark Drew, Gert Franz and Kurt Wiersma. Head over to the website fo... http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=1F77FD3F-F1FF-921E-1D723BA222201166 Scotland Creative Restraint 2008-09-01T20:17:00+10:00 For a very rushed set up event, registerations have been going well today and we have sadly had to make a change to the schedule :( We have had to shortern the Breaks and Lunch sessions to fit in an extra Session ;) Gert Franz from Railo was booked for CFDEVCON and so has also offered his services so now for your £10 you get 2 free drinks, 10% off SOTR 09 and 7 Sessions what a steal ;) Date: Thursday 25th September 2008 http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=1F6ACC1C-F1FF-921E-1FE2ED1462BF4C1C London Inner-Rhythm 2008-09-01T20:13:00+10:00 After last weeks Wee Dram announcement more information and registration is now available. Its going to be a London ColdFusion conference in replacement for the sadly Cancelled CFDEVCON. A chance to see some of the best ColdFusion Speakers from the US and of course the UK's own Mark Drew (What ColdFusion Conference would be complete without him) Where: Square Pig 30 - 32 Proctor Street Holborn London WC1R 4QG When: Thursday 25th September 2008, 10am to 6pm Who (Schedule): 10:00 - K http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=1EFC969B-F1FF-921E-10652F270C262BF9 South East England Andy Jarrett 2008-09-01T12:33:00+10:00 We are proud to announce the venue, final details and open registration for A Wee Dram, London will be held at The Square Pig Holborn, Close to Holborn Tube and Chancery Lane and multiple Bus Links from London Bridge, Victoria, London Waterloo and a walkabout distance from Kings Cross  on a nice day ;) We have finalised our Schedule and the line up really is something that the Scotch on the Rocks team is proud of with the time scales we have been working to. (Believe it or not we http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=19FFB3FA-F1FF-921E-13879D113F83154D London Inner-Rhythm 2008-08-31T19:03:00+10:00 At last there’s an RDP client for the iPhone/iPod - it appeared on the app store on 20th August, I’ve been running it for a while now and it’s great. There’s a trial version and a paid for version - free version is limited to 10 saved connections and macros (key press recordings when you [...] http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=133CEDCB-F1FF-921E-1B09A0D2880947F9 London John Bs personal Blog 2008-08-30T10:48:02+10:00 We like to stay current This is just part of our â??retroâ?? collection’! http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=0D9AF5CF-F1FF-921E-13884A6F01C787F7 London John Bs personal Blog 2008-08-29T08:21:52+10:00 So here's my first blog round up.Some of these are probably a bit dated now coming from all the way back at the beginning of August, but hope you find them useful.Matt Woodward - Very Cool Database Migration ToolIn this line of work databases are always involved in some way shape or form and migrating data is always on the agenda and its always a nightmare. I'll definitely be taking a look at this next time I'm moving some data around.John Whish - Learn Flex in a Week.Something I really need to http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=0D7FF4C9-F1FF-921E-174678B943024DC9 North West England Stephen Moretti 2008-08-29T07:47:46+10:00 Yesterday around 300 people attended Flex camp London - not bad considering it was arranged in under 3 weeks. Starting at 2pm through till beer and pizza at 8pm various speakers including our own Nikoas and Neil presented on a wide range of topics from flex & cf through to ‘who do you need on [...] http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=0D119DA7-F1FF-921E-121B528AB329963C London John Bs personal Blog 2008-08-29T05:56:34+10:00 Thanks for Scott Stroz for sending in this age related joke as my age turned to the dark side yesterday (30) A young man goes to a golf club to play a quick round. To his dismay, he is paired with an 85 year old man. The yong man feels that the old man will slow him down, but much to his delight, the old man keeps up. The old man hit the ball straight down the fairway every time. During the round, the old man would offer unsolicited advice to the young man, but the young man never http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=0D6423E0-F1FF-921E-1BA15F67841CD528 South East England Andy Jarrett 2008-08-29T02:29:00+10:00 Unfortunately, cfDevcon has been cancelled, but it looks like I'll be presenting at A Wee Dram instead. Adam Lehman & Claude Englebert, Mark Drew, Mike Brunt, Sean Corfield, Andrew Shorten and myself - all for ten quid :-) Check it out. It's on Thursday 25th September 2008, somewhere in central London. Big kudos to the SoTR team for pulling this together in the last couple of days. http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=054B1618-F1FF-921E-1383A0DA3DDF7FC7 Edinburgh Application Generation 2008-08-27T13:41:00+10:00 I've seen mention on various mailing lists of framework based OO apps that can take minutes to load the first time. I just want to clarify that depending on how much code you have it doesn't have to be this way . . . [More] http://www.ukcfug.org/blogregator/rss.cfm?id=04DD4992-F1FF-921E-131E04B6914CC9C6 Edinburgh Application Generation 2008-08-27T11:34:00+10:00