Over the last eight days, my colleague, Maciej, and I conducted an experiment in pair-programming. The experiment was inspired by a terrific piece on pair-programming by a highly-respected Java guru, Elliott Rusty Harold. (You can find his article here.) I've done pair-programming in the past, but never rigorously and so wasn't sure whether my affinity for it was justified. Today we concluded the experiment and discussed what we thought of it.

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Yesterday, I showed an example of an EDP implementation on the client. Let's do a quick review of the main points and then look at the server code.

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I recently wrote a blog post on EDP (Event-Driven Programming).

Ray Camden asked me to come up with an example of using EDP with a Model-View-Controller architecture. Over the weekend, I did just that. As a bonus, I'm including a jQuery plugin that will allow you to make Ajax calls to the server without using ColdFusion's CFAJAXPROXY tag.

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Every cool project needs a cool code name. The open source ColdFusion ecommerce project now has one: Project Serenity.

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A while back, I did a post asking for ideas for an open-source project. Having thought long and hard about the many (truly excellent) ideas, I think I'm ready to begin the next phase.

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I'm part of a select group of developers who have access to a secret web app called "Google Mail". Since you, doubtless, are unfamiliar with this software (I did say "select", after all), let me explain how it works.

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In earlier posts on this topic, I suggested that you split your "view" into two files -- one that is pure HTML (and the CFML you may need to process the view) and another one that holds your JavaScript and jQuery. One of the nice features of this is that it allows for unobtrusive JavaScript -- meaning that there's no JavaScript mixed in with HTML, making it possible (if you wish) to have a site that works both with JavaScript enabled and disabled.

Today, let's see how we can pass information to jQuery that it may need to do its job.

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If you're using the jQuery UI library, you undoubtedly know about the jQuery UI ThemeRoller -- a very cool tool for skinning jQuery UIs. There's a hidden gem available that I didn't know of until my colleague, Maciej, showed me.

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If you're using CFEclipse, one feature you may not be aware of is the special attention it pays to comments marked with "todo". I've found this feature very helpful in managing the complexity of writing software.

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We're all familiar with the process of showing content to a user and letting them edit it by means of perhaps an "Edit" button that takes them to a form. Today, let's look at a different way: allowing users to do inline edits in an unobtrusive manner.

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