DEVELOPMENT LOG FOR JIM PALMER
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Posted 06/28/2009 in jquery
A ultra-light and fast javascript template engine as a jQuery plugin.
Posted 01/18/2009 in javascript
A fast and lightweight javascript syntax highlighter for simple addition to your blog or site showcasing generic code without using server-side lexical analysis.
Posted 12/21/2008 in dhtml
IE has trouble retaining BACK/FORWARD button support with IFRAMES on pages without the Last-Modified or ETag response headers.
Posted 11/18/2008 in powershell
An ever-useful powershell script for those who use the SVN CLI even on windows.
Posted 09/01/2008 in javascript
A fast and lightweight natural sort algorithm for javascript.
Posted 08/30/2008 in jquery
Powerful datatable with animated pagination and natural sorting.
Posted 08/20/2008 in unix
Some notes on how to use rewrite rules to create developer sandboxes in a single-server dev environment.
Posted 08/07/2008 in jquery
A super-simple jQuery 1.2.6 plugin to extend the animate function to support animation of the CSS CLIP property.
Posted 07/31/2008 in jquery
Animated graphical form field validation jQuery plugin.
Posted 07/18/2008 in C#.NET
ASP.NET serializes the DateTime response as \/Date(-19312300000)\/ but we want jQuery to automatically parse that as a native Javascript Date() object...
Posted 07/16/2008 in C#.NET
To build a robust and fast AJAX handler facility utilizing Reflection to access remote methods in classes without using ASP.NET's AJAX library and the WebMethod factory and work with jQuery's $.ajax() or $.post() facilities.
Posted 06/25/2008 in C#.NET
A quick example on using a SqlParameterCollection to build the sql command string on the fly.
Posted 06/25/2008 in jquery
Manual support for the watch facility in Javascript which is an ad-hoc observer pattern.
Posted 06/23/2008 in javascript
A useful javascript print_r() function for those PHP developers working in javascript.
Posted 06/18/2008 in jquery
Looking for a mean and lean jquery plugin that is completely unobtrusive to the user and allows for tight integration into a jquery ajax driven site that needs to offer forward/back button support as well as state management?
Posted 05/29/2008 in unix
BASH script to colorize the output of SVN and CVS.
Posted 05/12/2008 in jquery
Animated calendar datepicker for multi-day selection with multi-month display. Animated scrolling of previous and next months. Allows for a sequence of months to reside side by side and for the user to select a number of consecutive days.
Posted 04/24/2008 in C#.NET
Looking to serialize Hashtables in .NET with DateTimes as indexes in LitJson?
Posted 04/22/2008 in C#.NET
Simple Regular Expression to convert faux XML to a JSON string - example in C#.
Posted 04/21/2008 in C#.NET
Here's a code-example showing how to convert a legacy ADODB RecordSet XML string to a native ADO.NET DataSet object using the built-in OleDbDataAdapter functionality.
Posted 04/17/2008 in C#.NET
Simple Encrypt() and Decrypt() function for 256b/32B asymmetric encryption using AES written in C#.
Posted 04/11/2008 in mssql
This is a handy trick to find similar strings in varchar/text/etc fields in MSSQL without breaking the query plan.
Posted 04/11/2008 in jquery
Simple jQuery plugin from Douglas Crockford's 2008-02-14 json2.js release.
Posted 03/27/2008 in ajax
Load testing AJAX applications is somewhat of a new and often neglected frontier that unfortunately is an absolute necessity in the process of launching successful web applications. Here is a quick writeup on patching the AMAZING HTTPERF utility version 0.9.0 to make the already fabled wsesslog feature.
Posted 03/17/2008 in coldfusion
Posted 03/05/2008 in ajax
When you build an AJAX application that is served to IE6 and IE7 clients - you will probably run into the obscure Invalid Argument error. Here's some insight on how to handle these errors.
Posted 02/21/2008 in ajax
A powerful XLST script to convert legacy .NET ADODB XML to JSON.
Posted 02/13/2008 in coldfusion
A concise coldfusion script to capture SHIFT+RELOAD requests from firefox to then take a list of javascript/css files, consolidate them into a single file, minify them via JSMIN and compress them via gzip -9.
Posted 12/24/2007 in unix
An interesting problem with Apache's mod_cache - even production in the 2.2.X branch - is that it does not cache mod_dir DirectoryIndex files. Here's the quick on how to forcefully redirect the user to a mod_cacheable page.
Posted 12/17/2007 in coldfusion
A much better Coldfusion implementation of flat-file caching on a set interval than the built-in CFCACHE.
Posted 09/04/2007 in flash
Proof of concept using Papervision3D in Flash9 to simplify a simple Mesh Plane object via edge decimation based off a soft threshold z-coordinate delta.
Posted 07/13/2007 in unix
Notes on how to do flash remoting to a clustered Coldfusion flash gateway as served via Apache.
Posted 07/13/2007 in unix
Posted 07/11/2007 in javascript
Need to copy a complex object by value - instead of by reference - in javascript?
Posted 07/10/2007 in dhtml
A streamlined, clean and appealing DHTML datepicker.
Posted 06/20/2007 in dhtml
This is a classy DHTML tool tip that auto-positions itself as per the block it points to as well as the pointer position.
Posted 04/24/2007 in flash
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in a simple and barely interactive Papervision3D demonstration. This is using USGS DEM (Digital Elevation Map) data and properly applied black and white orthography from terra-server
Posted 04/21/2007 in flash
A 3D terrain map of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area using Papervision 3D and USGS Digital Elevation Map values.
Posted 04/03/2007 in unix
Some insight into the dreaded error: Connection reset by peer: proxy: prefetch request body failed.
Posted 03/21/2007 in coldfusion
Use JSON instead of the homebrew CFAJAX serialization.
Posted 03/19/2007 in unix
Notes on problems when flash remoting to a clustered Coldfusion flash gateway as served via Apache.
Posted 03/07/2007 in coldfusion
Posted 03/02/2007 in coldfusion
A quick how-to on storing and retrieving binary data from a MySQL database in Coldfusion.
Posted 02/14/2007 in coldfusion
Posted 01/31/2007 in coldfusion
An example onRequestEnd Application.cfc function on truly removing unwanted white-space from the rendered html returned to the client. This will not break CFAJAX support.
Posted 01/24/2007 in unix
Took a nice Canon network controlled camera, hacked around its control protocol a bit and here are my notes on how to control it via simple PHP socket code.
Posted 01/22/2007 in unix
Here's a writeup on how to convert an MJPEG stream, specifically from a canon network controlled webcam, to FLV on the fly using FFMPEG and FFSERVER. This also duplicates the stream from the source and serves multiple streams to hungry clients, aka relay proxy.
Posted 01/05/2007 in flash
Lightweight and feature-packed AS2.0 pulldown component.
Posted 12/01/2006 in javascript
Prevent characters from being entered on input fields in html via regular expression syntax. This is similar to the TextField.restrict property in Flash.
Posted 11/30/2006 in flash
Posted 11/10/2006 in javascript
A simple example of how to block a certain DOM block while using my lightweight AS2.0 throbber animation to instruct the user to wait.
Posted 11/08/2006 in unix
This is a BASH script to aggregate clustered Apache log files (even compressed rotated log files) and process them via webalizer.
Posted 11/08/2006 in coldfusion
Coldfusion historically has had problems purging client data stored in the database, especially in a clustered environment. Here's a quick direct-db way to purge.
Posted 09/27/2006 in flash
Lightweight AS2.0 throbber animation.
Posted 09/26/2006 in flash
The sexiest AS2.0 date picker calendar popup with animations
Posted 09/25/2006 in coldfusion
A robust XSLT transformation to convert legacy ADODB XML to WDDX XML.
Posted 09/22/2006 in javascript
A quick function that was put together to parse strings/numbers (float as well) into a US Dollar formatted string:
Posted 09/21/2006 in flash
Nice lightweight AS2.0 date picker component with appealing date selection animation.
Posted 09/18/2006 in coldfusion
Building a large-scale e-commerce site in Coldfusion? You will need this pattern...
Posted 09/18/2006 in coldfusion
An example onRequestEnd Application.cfc function on truly removing unwanted white-space from the rendered html returned to the client.
Posted 08/11/2006 in flash
Nice lightweight AS2.0 date picker component with appealing date selection animation.
Posted 08/03/2006 in flash
Posted 07/26/2006 in flash
Posted 07/20/2006 in flash
Posted 07/18/2006 in flash
Here are my notes on exploring how to properly use bounding boxes when developing custom components to allow easy instantiation in the Flash IDE.
Posted 07/13/2006 in flash
My findings on how to handle collections as custom component parameters in AS2.0.
Posted 07/11/2006 in flash
Posted 07/11/2006 in flash
Here's a quick trick on how to more precisely calculate the height of a TextField object in AS2.0.