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Dallas TechFest 2010 Review
Dallas TechFest 2010 Review

Dallas TechFest, a one day technology conference, has come and gone for 2010, but what an awesome day it was.  I honestly think that this years conference was much better than the previous year.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Dallas techFest, ColdFusion, MySQL, Grails, CouchDB, jQuery
Form Validation Gotcha
Form Validation Gotcha

 I ran into a gotcha with the way I've been doing form validation.  HTML 5 compliant browsers handle input metadata a little differently and threw me off.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: form validation, jquery, html5, coldfusion
LatestTweets - A Mura Plugin
LatestTweets - A Mura Plugin

 Though this is not my first Mura plugin, it IS the first Mura plugin I have released.

LatestTweets evolved from a simple bit of javascript I had thrown together for the Slantsoft site some time ago, to a modular Mura component, to it's latest redition, a full blown Mura plugin.  You can see the plugin in action anywhere on this site that shows my twitter stream.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Mura, jQuery, ColdFusion
Quotie: A Simple Stock Quote Gadget for Google Wave

I spent some time this week looking at the Google Wave Gadget API.  After building the simple example from the api docs I decided to go ahead and build something powered by ColdFusion that implemented jQuery and was able to maintain state in the blip the gadget was added to.  After a failed attempt at creating a polling gadget I  opted to create a stock quote lookup gadget.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: ColdFusion, Railo, Google Wave, Gadgets, jQuery
Replace Linked MP3 Files with an Audio Player Using jQuery

A client of mine posts links to recorded audio files in a blog like structure.  Linking to the files doesn't really create a great user experience and I decided to swap out the links with an embedded flash player to allow for instant playback while still providing a way for users to download the files.

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Tags: jquery, mp3, html