Creative Juices Bo. Co.

CJ File Browser 4.0 (Beta)

I know a lot of people are using my file browser with tinyMCE or for standalone applications. I just wanted to let everyone know, that I have been working feverishly on a major revision and you can check out the progress or lend a helping hand of support by checking it out on GitHub.

What's New

This version is meant to squash some long standing bugs, but also to take care of some of the many request people have been making over the past year. Some of the things that are on my hit list:

• Drag and drop file uploads.
• The ability to drag and drop to move files and folders around.
• Making it themeable with jQuery UI (I'm still not sure about this, since I'm not sure how tinyMCE will handle this).
• Allow renaming of files and directories.
• UI improvements: Easier to understand tooldbar, adjustable sidebar width, etc.
• Ability to view larger previews of images (Might incorporate lightbox or colorbox for this, suggestions welcome.)

This is not a complete list, but most of the major items that I wanted to incorporate or features my clients have been asking for.

What Can You Do?

If you want to join in on the fun, download the source from GitHub and start playing around. It's beginning to become a beast and I'm not sure if I can handle doing everything and keep on top of my normal clients workload. But I want to make sure I take care of everything you guys have been asking for. If you have more suggestions or know of any bugs, please let me know.

And as a side note, my new hero, Jona, took the time and wrote a PHP handler. I haven't had time to play with it yet, but you can check it out here: https://github.com/teeny/CJ-File-Browser-PHP-Handler. Thanks Jona!

Apparently With ColdFusion You Can't Always Rely On form.fieldnames

I've been using ColdFusion for a long, long time and today I came across something that just totally stumped me. When submitting a form, you could always, and I mean ALWAYS, use ColdFusion's "form.fieldnames" field to get a list of all of the names of the submitted form's fields. At least that's what I thought.

jQuery Date Navigation Bar

I know it's been awhile since I've posted anything, but I've been a very, very busy bee. Hopefuly, I will get some time to start making some updates to some of my jQuery plug-ins soon, but in the meantime I would like to share something new. It's not fancy, but I required it for some of my client projects as of late and I thought I would share.

I've Given Up on Mac OS X Lion Server 10.7... For Now.

As some of you may know, I run a small development server that I use for my clients. Today I thought I would try to upgrade it to the new 10.7 Lion Server and see if I could get Railo up and running. Well, eight hours and three clean installs later, I have utterly given up. I never got to a point where I could even start playing around with Railo. All of my time was spent trying to get the server up and running properly.

I'm not one to gripe much, but I'm slowly seeing a pattern with Apple that I don't particularly like. I'm not sure if it's management or their programming teams, but the famous Apple "polish" seems to be slowly diminishing on some of their projects. And by some, I don't mean everything. I've upgraded my normal work flow computers to 10.7 and so far I'm not having any issues. But the Server software, well, I can only describe it as a fancy dialog box, that hides a horrendously buggy, poorly thought out and lacking major features piece of software.

CJBoCo Fan Appreciation Day!

I'm not sure if its my work or perhaps my extremely busy social life, but sometimes I forget why I do this whole "blog" thing. When thinking back to the day when I created my very first blog entry over 7 years ago, I don't think I really fathomed the warmth and sense of community I was about to give life too. It trully has been remarkable. You see, I started this blog for one reason and one reason only. To give back to the tech community that had been so generous and giving to me when I was struggling to figure things out in my early programming days. It was the only way I could think of to say "thank you" to the hundreds of the anonymous internet people that helped me out.

Over the years people have have questioned why I do a blog. They wonder why I don't fill my website with Google ads and make money off my traffic. They say, I should be making money for my time, work and advice instead of just "giving" it away for free. I try to tell them that I wouldn't be where I am today, if it wasn't for others that did the same thing during the early days of the internet, but alas they just laugh at me a call me a fool.

What they don't realize is that I get some satisfaction out of helping people out. Its one of those "Good for the Soul" type of thing. As I witness more and more "content-farms" taking over Google search terms for tech related information, I feel as if these types of sites are slowy fading away. Well, let it be known, I will keep doing this as long as I can!

I'm sure people come to this site and think that I'm some kind of anonymous wizard behind the curtain, but I always reply to queries and give help whenever I can. Over the years, the CJBoCo community has grown leaps and bounds and it hasn't just been a one-way streak. Messages, with warmth, love and intelligence, pour into my in-box almost daily. It's trully heart warming. Heck, just this evening I received this...