Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

Easy Way to Integrate ColdFusion into Non-ColdFusion Templates

2010-03-31T15:52:00-05:00

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to implement some new feature using one scripting language within a template that is written in a different scripting language, or possibly no scripting language at all (pure HTML)? Of course, you could just turn the pure HTML template into a CFML template, and at times that is indeed the best route to go, as long as breaking every link pointing back to this page

Leveraging Response Headers in Ajax Calls

2010-03-16T12:47:00-05:00

If you're doing any sort of Ajax development, then you undoubtedly already are quite familiar with the different ways you can use an Ajax call. For instance, you can have the call return a fragment of fully formed html (such as a table populated with data). For a more advanced user, you may have your Ajax calls returning raw data in the form of JSON or XML and parse it on the client side. In either case, though, your single Ajax

Registered Ajax Responders Not Responding Properly

2010-02-19T11:20:00-05:00

If you use the Prototype Javascript library and you chain your Ajax calls together at times, you may have run into the issue that I just dealt with regarding your registered responders not responding correctly! Since I spent more time than I care to share trying to figure out why my global responders weren't working like I thought they should, I thought I'd share what I learned. Hope it saves somebody some time! :)

Basic Ajax Select List Filter in PHP

2009-05-20T14:02:00-05:00

I am a ColdFusion guy, without a doubt. At my new job, however, I have inherited the maintenance and enhancement duties of a large PHP application as well. One of the enhancements I was asked to make was to produce a select list of names that could be filtered on the fly as the user typed into a text box. Being somewhat new to PHP and having had to figure out a good approach to creating this feature, I thought I'd share it in ca