The Ajaxist

Topics for this month included Ajax, Easy, ColdFusion, HTML and jQuery.

The top five posts for this month were:

1. Simple CFCHART/jQuery Demo
2. Using a Remote JSONP ColdFusion Service to Send Mail
3. Create A Webpage In 30 Seconds Using MSword
4. More [PROTOTYPE] Secrets Revealed!
5. The Free HTML Editor, HTML

1. Simple CFCHART/jQuery Demo

   I had some time to kill today and I decide to mix cfchart up with some jQuery love. You can see the demo of this here. When the chart loads, click on the bars, and you will see a detail load beneath the graph. The code behind this is fairly trivial. I've got a file I include to generate my chart data. Normally this would be a proper database query. The main template's code consists of: The cfchart makes use of the url attribute to specify what should happen when you click. In this case, I'm simply calling a function, loadData()....

2. Using a Remote JSONP ColdFusion Service to Send Mail

   A user had an interesting question regarding jQuery and JSONP. He wanted to know if a file on one server (a server without ColdFusion) could use jQuery and JSONP to run CFML code on another server and send email. The problem with using JSONP in this scenario is that JSONP is a GET request. Emails are - typically - a bit long and could fail to execute if the message was too large. He still wanted to see an example anyway so I whipped up the following demo. The code is based on the blog entry I wrote two months...

3. Create A Webpage In 30 Seconds Using MSword

   Create a webpage in 30 seconds using MSword. Just to tell the viewers, microsoft word can be used to create web page in easy method. You dont need to know HTML or DHTML.. just follow the steps..... and save the file as webpage.................

4. More [PROTOTYPE] Secrets Revealed!

   Screens taken from the first prototype trailer. Please post any corrections in the comments. For most things (like the repeated use of "TOP SECRET" I left out on purpose) I didn't add the text. If you want to see a screen shot for longer... just pause it... duh.

5. The Free HTML Editor, HTML

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6. DFL Pwning in CoD2