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onChange on IE vs Firefox (the importance of cross browser test)

felixt — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:57:04 +0000

I have wasted a couple of my previous hours in my life due to this – onChange event on IE and Firefox is triggered differently. What happened to me before was a created a checkbox and attach onChange event on it. On Firefox it worked fine – whenever I click the checkbox, the onChange event is [...]

Benefits of learning ColdFusion Frameworks

felixt — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:31:21 +0000

And so I have been working with Mach-ii, ColdSpring and Reactor for more than 2 months now, I think a follow up for my previous post is now due. I am glad to say that so far my experience has been really positive. The application that I am working on, is really well architected. The solid [...]

Agile in Web Development

felixt — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:46:37 +0000

Few days ago, Phillip Calçado from Thoughtworks came to our office and gave a presentation on Agile Web Development. Here are the slides of his presentation - Agile and Web Projects in 20 Minutes (slide 12 really cracks me up). Phillip is also a blogger – http://fragmental.tw/ – beware he writes long posts! The timing of the presentation [...]

A Simple Refactoring

felixt — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:57:00 +0000

Yesterday, I was required to create some Javascript functionalities using Prototype. It’s nothing out of ordinary, I was to create a page with 3 radio buttons and 1 select, depending on which button selected – the select will be enabled/disabled. Being new with Prototype as well as having a task with a fixed allocated [...]

My Initial Experience with Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring

felixt — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:52:39 +0000

Due the possibility of a contract work on a project that uses Mach-ii, Reactor and ColdSpring combo next year – I have dedicated some portion of my holiday time to get my hands dirty on these frameworks. It has been around 10 days building a simple application with the frameworks and below is my [...]

20×20 nite at Adobe Platform User Group Sydney

felixt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:45:34 +0000

Earlier this week (Monday), at the Adobe Platform Users Group Sydney we were having a 20×20 Pecha Kucha nite. Basically in a Pecha Kucha meeting, there will be few people presenting – in their presentations they are limited to 20 slides, on each slides they can spend at maximum 20 seconds, so for each presentations [...]

cf.Objective(ANZ) 2009 Recap – Part 2

felixt — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:25:07 +0000

I managed to do a short jogging along Yarra River in the morning – it was very lovely. These are the summary of the sessions that I went to on day 2 as well as my personal reflection. ORM basic to advance – Terry Ryan I admit I haven’t even tried the ORM capabilities in ColdFusion [...]

cf.Objective(ANZ) 2009 Recap – Part 1

felixt — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:48:23 +0000

Well, this is my 3rd time attending a development conference and I had a great time there. I am glad that now there is a ColdFusion specific conference in Australia (in addition to WebDU - which also has a dedicated ColdFusion stream) – thank you for the committee to bring it here down under, you [...]

Railo on Apache / Tomcat – Windows (Part 3) – Getting URL Rewriting works for ColdBox

felixt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:14:21 +0000

Well I thought this was going to be an easy process, but it turned out to be little bit trickier than I thought. Apparently there are a couple of ways to get ColdBox SES (Search Engine ) URL to work. From what I gather from this ColdBox Forum Post, you can use one of the following: Tuckey URL [...]

Do you have to be a passionate developer?

felixt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:20:34 +0000

Well, I mentioned on my about me page that I am self confessed passionate developer, I even named my business Passionate Development. However I’ve been thinking to myself, what does it mean exactly by passionate. Well now that I have some time to do more thinking, I will try to unravel my own thoughts on [...]