Well, I finished that monster prototype, with much credit to my coding partner, Maciej. I figured that over 11 days, I worked 165 hours. Whew! Yesterday, we gave the presentation to a large multi-national corporation. To my relief and gratification, they were very impressed. Which leaves me, now, with only one small problem...

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Yesterday, we looked at some simple server code that is called by events generated on the client. We saw that the server returns an EVENT property in its response -- but that my example never uses it. Today, we're going to see how that is used -- and why I think EDP is a BigDeal(tm).

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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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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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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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We use a simple jQuery tablesorter to allow users to sort tables by various columns, but at times, users want to restrict their view of table rows -- perhaps only viewing rows of a certain type. Today, we'll look at how to do this with some jQuery and POJS (plain old JavaScript).

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I've been working on a job where different people in different places are working off of a shared queue of work orders to be processed. When they first log onto the system, they see the current work orders and their status in a table. (Don't tell the CSS police that I used the "T" word...) The problem is that, as existing work orders are processed and new work orders are submitted, their screens quickly are out of sync.

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I've been trying to send a simple JSON string to a ColdFusion CFC by means of a jQuery post. After more hours than I want to admit to, I finally gave up. Maybe you might could help?

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