Ponderings

Upgrading to jQuery 1.9 removes $.browser function.

Joshua Scott — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:27:44 +0000

I had a mysterious thing happen when I upgraded my site to the latest version jQuery… a several cool UI features stopped working. I started getting the follow error message:

TypeError: $.browser is undefined

It turns out that the problem is caused by the $.browser function that has been deprecated for a while has finally been removed. I found an easy fix. This project on github https://github.com/pupunzi/jquery.mb.browser. When added to your site, will restore great functionality like:

$($.browser.webkit ? document.body : 'html').stop(true).animate({'scrollTop': $section.offset().top}, 500);

As usual Google is my best friend!

Getting My Feet Wet With Ruby On Rails

Joshua Scott — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:31:04 +0000

As a developer, I am always trying to add languages to my tool belt. One of the most popular languages on the web today is Ruby. Ruby on Rails is a powerful framework and the more I have learned about it has become clear why it has been the obvious choice for many of the most used apps on the Internet such as Basecamp. I have recently rewritten my corporate website using a popular Ruby on Rails CMS tool called RefineryCMS, I have been incredibly impressed. I will be blogging more about my experiences with Ruby and RefineryCMS.

Need Help??

Joshua Scott — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:28:59 +0000

I am never sure how many people read this blog, but I thought I would put this out there. I currently have some extra bandwidth to work on contract projects or am open to a telecommuting position.

I have extensive experience in web application development on multiple platforms. I have done consulting work on my own for almost 12 years and would be interested to see how my skills and experience might be an asset to your team.

You can view my resume at: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/joshuascott

Feel free to contact me via e-mail or twitter.

ModelGlue 3.2 Scaffolding

Joshua Scott — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:56:13 +0000

Time to be honest. Up to this point, ModelGlue scaffolding was a cool trick, but for me the code that was generated requires a lot of styling to make it presentable to a client. Last night though, something changed for me. Dan Wilson (@DanWilson) and I were talking and he asked if he could send me something to take a look at. He encouraged me to blog about it after I looked.

So I looked it over and followed the example and was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. It was the difference between going 75 mph in the HOV lane and going warp 10. I was really impressed. Here are a few screenshots:

I have not dug into the guts of how it works yet, but the forms look to use a jquery form styling library.

Areas that could be improved:

I have recently seen a framework called Django for the Python language and the generated code and styling of the interfaces is better than where we are here, but remember it is only in Alpha.
Maybe this is in there and I have not found it yet, but I think making the styling more easy tweak and having some themes.
Me. I need to get back involved in the ModelGlue beta process. In the first two versions of MG, I was active on the lists and giving suggestions etc… Lately I have been too busy, and I really need to get back involved because exciting things are happening.

I will continue to look into this, but I am incredibly impressed and blown away by what a huge jump this framework had taken.

ColdFusion 7 and the PayPal Web Payments Pro API

Joshua Scott — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:16:44 +0000

After working happily for a year or so, a client’s donation engine that uses the PayPal Web Payments Pro system started throwing errors. Upon closer inspection it was giving a “Connection Failure” error and not even completing the SSL handshake. After talking with PayPal and digging around on the Internet I found the solution.

Go to: https://www.verisign.com/support/roots.html and download roots.zip file.
Copy and rename the “Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority – G2.cer” file from the root certificates zip file provided by VeriSign to c:\vs-g2-import.cer to remove spaces from the filename.
Issue the following command: C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\jre\bin\keytool.exe -import -keystore c:\cfusionmx7\runtime\jre\lib\security\cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -trustcacerts -file c:\vs-g2-import.cer -alias vs-g2-import-09-09-30
Restart ColdFusion.

Works like a champ now. Thanks PayPal for the advance warning.

Additional Information:

http://www.pdncommunity.com/t5/blogs/blogarticlepage/blog-id/mts_updates/article-id/456
http://www.pdncommunity.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=nvp&thread.id=5557

Reflections on CFBuilder

Joshua Scott — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:20:04 +0000

I have been using CFBuilder now everyday since it was in beta and have a few reflections:

1. OBVIOUS – It is not as developed as CFEclipse and as such has some irritating bugs that will be worked out in time.
2. Needs to have tighter Aptana tie in.
3. Should include a SVN client.
4. Server management ROCKS.
5. Tag insight and introspection show be a little quicker.

More later…

Microsoft SQL Script to update BlogCFC 5.92

Joshua Scott — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:13:44 +0000

I just upgraded tonight to the latest release of BlogCFC, (what runs this blog) and realized that there is not an upgrade script for mssql. I edited the one provided for mysql and here it is:

ALTER TABLE tblblogcomments
 ADD killcomment varchar(35) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogcomments
 ADD subscribeonly int NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD summary varchar(255) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD subtitle varchar(100) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD keywords varchar(100) NULL

ALTER TABLE tblblogentries
 ADD duration varchar(10) NULL

VMware and Linux

Joshua Scott — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:59:48 +0000

I have been a functional Windows bigot for most of my programming life. No more.

I had a server crash that happened to host the Resonant Media Technologies website. I took the time this time to really set it up right. I installed CentOS 5.2 and VMware 2, I will blog more, but the experience was incredible.

Simple SES

Joshua Scott — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:22:03 +0000

As I was deploying the latest version of the Resonant Media site (www.resonantmedia.com). It was important to do as much as possible to make it search engine friendly. I opted to use a custom 404 page that processes the the URL via simple CFC that I built.

I will be posting more about the way it works in a future post.

Migrating to ColdFusion 8

Joshua Scott — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:24:43 +0000

Well, I have started migrating some of my apps to CF8 and am VERY impressed. There has not been any major hickups. Actually, I have had no problems.

I am very happy that it appears that we have a very solid and feature rich new version of CF to enjoy.