Thoughts from the mountains

For some time I have wanted to update the image upload system I have on my photography website. I made it years ago and it only allowed me to upload a single image at a time. For each image the system would upload the file, make a thumbnail, allow me to classify the image and then write the data to the database. Each time I would add a new gallery I would go through this process for each image as well as incrementing a shot number in the description field for each image. Obviously, there was room for improvement as well a the possibility of saving time each time I wanted to upload a new gallery.

The Facebook Wall JQuery plugin by Neosmart makes it super easy to display the wall of a facebook account on a website. An interesting way to show non facebook users the community of people discussing your business or organization.

For times when you would like to remove select options based on the selected option in a different select, jQuery allows a simple option. In my example, I have a select control that the user uses to select their country and then an additional select control for selecting membership types. The membership types are based on on different groups of countries, so it is situation where you will want to remove the options that do not apply to the selected country value.

My blog post this evening will talk about the current homepage of my MyRides application that I am working on using CfWheels. The homepage currently shows some statistics about all of my rides as a whole and a data grid that shows all of the individual rides and allows the user to click on any ride to see a detailed view. I needed to create a controller cfc, a view file and a default layout to make this page work.

How to use jquery and coldfusion to bind a select box to another select box without using the supplied bind attribute of the cfselect tag.