andyMatthews.net - where design and dev meet: the personal blog of web developer Andy Matthewshttp://www.andymatthews.netandyMatthews.netSecure storage in JavaScript, a proof of concept
A week or so ago, a fellow JavaScript developer threw down a challenge.
Suppose you wanted to extend the JavaScript Object such that getting and setting data in the object is only possible when providing a predetermined access key....2010-03-11T12:11:20-06:00Capture BitmapData with JavaScript AIR applications
When it comes to AIR application development, those of us using JavaScript are second class citizens. It's unfortunate, but true. Functionality easily available in Flash or Flex is either missing, or difficult to find (and use) in our apps. One such...2009-11-05T20:38:30-06:00jQuery and AIR: Writing content to the file system via drag and drop
In this installment of my jQuery and AIR series we'll be exploring the ability to write content to the file system using AIR's built in file system access. We'll be copying images, and writing JavaScript variables as text files. We'll also be using ...2009-06-07T20:39:23-06:00Presenting tonight to the Nashville CFUG. jQuery and AIR development
I'll be presenting to the Nashville CFUG tonight. The session is titled "jQuery and AIR: Desktop Design for the Front End Developer".
That Nashville CFUG always records presentations via Adobe Connect...2009-05-28T10:10:26-06:00JavaScript replace method takes functions as arguments? Who knew?I was working on a snippet of code at work the other day. I needed to take a string and replace every character that wasn't a letter, number, or forward slash, with a dash. That's actually super easy with regex, and it looks like this
...2009-03-23T09:58:17-06:00Shrinkadoo 0.5, now with copy/paste (take that Apple)
I've been hard at work on several features within Shrinkadoo which have been requested by many people. Most notably is automatic copy and paste of short URLs. That feature is now included. The app also now remembers t...2009-03-17T22:18:05-06:00Shrinkadoo, jQuery/ColdFusion powered URL shortening AIR app
I can finally announce what I've been working on for the last few weeks. You might already know of the shrinkURL CFC I wrote, and released on RIAForge. But I'm ready...2009-03-03T11:20:14-06:00Calling a page via a link with a target attribute
Today over at House of Fusion Claude Schneegans asked:
Suppose I have a page like myPage.cfm. Is it possible in this page to detect if it was called from a link having a TARGET="..." att...2009-01-13T20:23:30-06:00