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  • MAR 12 2015Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile now available
  • DEC 29 2014Goodreads Challenge 2014 - the year in numbers
  • DEC 18 2014jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, now only $5!
  • SEP 26 2014Open the iOS Simulator without opening XCode
  • MAY 14 2014Slides from cfObjective, Sass and CouchDB
  • MAY 05 2014Node.js dns.resolve versus dns.lookup over VPN connections
  • MAR 26 2014Unit Testing Ember.js: Handlebars Helpers
  • OCT 31 2013Blazon presentation tool from Present Boldly is awesome
  • OCT 21 2013New Millennium Blogging with Ghost
  • SEP 30 2013Second edition of jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials Now Available
  • MAY 06 2013Slide deck from MAX 2013
  • APR 10 2013Sticky-Seriously simple notifications for jQuery
  • JAN 16 2013Build custom icon fonts with Builder for jQuery Mobile Icon Pack
  • JAN 16 2013jQuery Mobile Icon Pack 3.0 now available
  • JAN 08 2013Replay XHR request in Chrome Dev Tools
  • JAN 03 20132012 was a good year
  • DEC 14 2012Writing Hubot Plugins with CoffeeScript
  • NOV 06 2012New features in jQuery Mobile 1.2
  • OCT 25 2012Using base64 encoded data URI images
  • OCT 12 2012All jQuery Mobile projects updated to support jQuery Mobile 1.2.0
  • SEP 10 2012Yeoman At Your Service - Tooling and Frameworks for Beautiful Web Applications
  • SEP 10 2012Streamline your workflow with the Divvy window manager!
  • SEP 06 2012CFDirectoryLister directory browser and data image URLs
  • AUG 22 2012jQuery Mobile in the Spotlight. Free videos and book chapters now available!!
  • JUL 24 2012Command line tools for the novice
  • JUL 17 2012jQuery Mobile releases version 1.1.1. Updates abound!
  • JUL 09 2012Nashville developers unite! Shape of a CoderFaire tech conference!
  • JUN 28 2012Slides and demos from jQuery Con 2012
  • JUN 24 2012Awesome clients are awesome: Fastbook.mobi I'm looking at you
  • JUN 19 2012Getting Started with Ember.js slides and video now available
  • MAY 29 2012Unit Testing jQuery Plugins with Grunt and QUnit
  • MAY 25 2012jQuery Conference San Francisco Here I Come!
  • MAY 21 2012My slides from cf.Objective 2012
  • MAY 17 2012Dynamically creating jQuery Mobile radio buttons with Mustache
  • MAY 15 2012New jQuery Mobile listview sorting plugin jQM TinySort
  • MAY 10 2012Viewport argument value xxx was truncated to its numeric prefix
  • MAY 04 2012jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials available now!
  • AUG 16 2012Saying Goodbye to jQuery Mobile
  • APR 13 2012jQuery Mobile 1.1 Final is now available
  • MAR 27 2012jQuery Mobile Autocomplete now available
  • MAR 27 2012Ember.js observables. So you like to watch!
  • MAR 22 2012Rewriting Backbone.js wineshop demo using Ember.js
  • MAR 20 2012Reversing the output of an Ember.js content array
  • MAR 12 2012jQuery Mobile Training Starting on April 23
  • MAR 12 2012jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials coming soon
  • MAR 07 2012Getting Started With EmberJS
  • DEC 20 2011openExchangeRateCFC now has a convert method. Find out how much you make in GBP.
  • DEC 19 2011openExchangeRateCFC! Never worry about exchange rates again
  • DEC 14 2011Refreshing jQuery Mobile listviews, buttons, select dropdowns, and input fields
  • MAR 07 2012Adobe Shadow makes debugging websites on mobile devices a breeze
  • NOV 25 2011Scripting Photoshop with JavaScript and ExtendScript
  • NOV 17 2011jQuery Mobile turns 1.0 today!
  • NOV 14 2011Capturing the expand and collapse event on a jQuery Mobile collapsible set
  • NOV 01 2011ThemeRoller! Styling jQuery Mobile apps has never been this easy
  • OCT 30 2011RIAUnleashed 2011 wrapup
  • OCT 19 2011Learn jQuery Mobile online course, starts in one week!
  • OCT 13 2011Upgrading to iOS 5: The Ordeal
  • SEP 19 2011Developing responsive websites with the Skeleton media query framework
  • AUG 22 2011InstagramCFC - a ColdFusion wrapper for the Instagram API
  • AUG 15 2011Your top five books, here are mine
  • AUG 10 2011foursquareCFC v2 now available! Rewritten from scratch!
  • JUL 08 2011Learn jQuery Mobile, the easy way!
  • JUN 05 2011KloutCFC - A ColdFusion wrapper for the Klout social media influence API
  • APR 27 2011Two chances to catch my jQuery Mobile presentation; CFMeetup and cfObjective
  • APR 20 2011Thoughts on the next version of foursquareCFC, please comment!
  • APR 12 2011Help Goba hire developers! Make some money! iOS dev, Server Side dev, and SysAdmin positions available
  • APR 07 2011My PlayBook application got approved! Let me introduce you to Gallery 1.0
  • MAR 29 2011Just submitted my PlayBook application to Blackberry for approval
  • FEB 28 2011Couch to 5k - Week One
  • JUL 06 2011Andy needs new books! Help him out!
  • MAR 06 2012A quick look at CSS attribute selectors
  • FEB 23 2011Add a Twitter for iPhone Style Swipe Menu to jQuery Mobile
  • MAR 03 2012Sideloading Android apps to the Blackberry PlayBook
  • FEB 18 2011Adding iPhone style swipe to delete button to a listview component in jQuery Mobile
  • JAN 27 2012jQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released, Big Changes Coming Soon
  • FEB 13 2011Creating and using custom icons in jQuery Mobile
  • FEB 08 2011Introduction to jQuery Mobile
  • FEB 01 2011ColdFusion 9 and pure CFScript CFCs
  • JAN 31 2011PastebinCFC 0.1 now available
  • JAN 27 2011I've been selected by Adobe as a 2011 Community Professional
  • MAR 02 2012Creating a dynamic jQuery Mobile list view with ColdFusion, Mustache templates and JSON data
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  • JAN 21 2011Great iPhone, and Android Apps for Kids
  • JAN 15 2011shrinkURL 0.6.0 now available. Includes support for Goo.gl short URLs
  • FEB 28 2012jQuery Mobile Icon Pack - Extra icons for your jQuery Mobile project!
  • APR 04 2012Font Awesome icons now included in jQuery Mobile Icon Pack
  • JAN 02 2011Resolving gaps and spaces in table cells when using the HTML 5 doctype
  • DEC 11 2010Blackberry PlayBook Tablet Design Template
  • DEC 03 2010Join us for the open ColdFusion panel of experts
  • NOV 27 2010Tell me your favorite short URL service
  • NOV 22 2010Thanksgiving Week Giveaways - Win a Copy of Adobe Lightroom Today, More on Tue and Wed
  • FEB 19 2012swipeButton jQuery Mobile plugin launches. Millions rejoice!
  • NOV 20 2010Single Page AIR Applications with jQuery
  • NOV 18 2010Help me become an Adobe Community Professional
  • NOV 17 2010Killer Blackberry Promotion for New Playbook Developers - FREE Device
  • NOV 17 2010textCounter - Twitter style input field character countdown jQuery plugin
  • NOV 02 2010Building Adobe AIR Apps with HTML and JS - MAX 2010 presentation materials now available
  • OCT 31 2010Multi-column text support in HTML/JS AIR Applications
  • FEB 13 2012New jQuery Mobile theme: Twitter Bootstrap
  • OCT 30 2010Detecting External Storage Devices with Adobe AIR, HTML and JavaScript - The StorageVolumeChangeEvent
  • FEB 02 2012Please welcome jQuery Mobile Boilerplate
  • OCT 21 2010Downloading Files with Adobe AIR, HTML and JS Part 2. Adding a Progress Bar with Canvas
  • OCT 15 2010Building a Badass Waveform Visualizer with Adobe AIR and the Canvas Tag
  • OCT 14 2010Canvas support in Adobe AIR - yes Martha it really works!
  • SEP 28 2010File downloading with Adobe AIR using HTML and jQuery
  • SEP 27 2010New Google Group new open, AIR with HTML and JavaScript
  • SEP 22 2010OT: East Nashville Home for Sale, 3 bedroom, 2 bath
  • SEP 21 2010Easily embedding a custom created Google Map onto a web page
  • SEP 20 2010Top Ten 'Top Ten' CSS tutorials
  • AUG 29 2010I'm speaking at MAX 2010!
  • AUG 23 2010Parsing search terms from CGI.http_referrer using regular expressions
  • AUG 16 2010Adding the AIR 2.0 SDK to ColdFusion Builder
  • AUG 08 2010dribbbleCFC 0.1 released - designers rejoice!
  • AUG 05 2010Setting up IIS, Apache, and Lighthttpd to serve Adobe AIR files
  • JUL 29 2010foursquareCFC updated to version 1.0, now includes ColdFusion return type
  • JUL 11 2010Presenting to the Boston CFUG - jQuery, AIR and ColdFusion development, July 21st
  • JUL 08 2010New open source project, foursquareCFC - ColdFusion wrapper for the Foursquare social networking API
  • JUN 24 2010D2WC, The Aftermath
  • JUN 15 2010New Model-Glue Wallpapers now available
  • JUN 02 2010Deploying to Web, Desktop, and Mobile with jQuery, AIR, ColdFusion, and Phonegap at NYCFUG, June 8th
  • JAN 20 2012New blog redesign. Come help me kick the tires!
  • MAY 28 2010Regex - match a string that doesn't contain another string
  • MAY 27 2010D2WC, the designer developer workflow conference is fast approaching: June 19-20 in Kansas City.
  • APR 23 2010What's New in AIR 2.0 slides and code from cf.Objective() 2010 now available
  • APR 19 2010The importance of respect.
  • APR 03 2010Just three more weeks until cf.Objective()! Will you be there?
  • APR 03 2010Presenting to the NYCFUG on June 8th. jQuery, ColdFusion, AIR, Phonegap, and mobile devices.
  • MAR 23 2010cf.Objective() launches new site; Room blocks are filling up fast
  • MAR 22 2010ColdFusion Builder now available, includes Flash Builder 4
  • MAR 18 2010tumblrCFC now listed on tumblr.com's third-party apps page
  • MAR 13 2010Introducing tumblrCFC - allows ColdFusion developers to access the Tumblr blogging API
  • MAR 11 2010Secure storage in JavaScript, a proof of concept
  • JAN 31 2010jQuery 1.4 support in AIR 2.0 and ColdFusion Builder 1.0
  • JAN 26 2010I'm speaking at the D2WC Conference in Kansas City: June 19 and 20
  • JAN 21 2010Building AIR Apps with ColdFusion and jQuery
  • JAN 21 2010jQuery 101 - Presentation recording and code samples now available
  • JAN 06 2010Come see me speak at cf.Objective() 2010. Minneapolis can't wait to see you!
  • JAN 05 2010jQuery, AIR, and ColdFusion presentation to BACFUG on January 20th, 2010
  • DEC 09 2009First steps into iPhone Development with PhoneGap, XUI JS, and Emile
  • NOV 09 2009Immediate openings for 3 web developers
  • NOV 05 2009Capture BitmapData with JavaScript AIR applications
  • NOV 02 2009BFlex 2009 Drag and Drop Image Manager presentation code, slidedeck, and walkthrough
  • NOV 01 2009Compiling Actionscript 3 classes into a SWF with Flex Builder for use in JavaScript AIR applications
  • OCT 30 2009Whiskerino is coming - look busy
  • OCT 22 2009A beginner's guide to regular expressions
  • OCT 17 2009My CFinNC slides now available...
  • OCT 12 2009Gonna be a busy two weeks. CFinNC is Oct 17-18, BFlex-BFusion is Oct 24-25
  • OCT 09 2009Adobe makes all MAX 2009 sessions available for free online
  • OCT 05 2009Publish Actionscript 3 code as a native iPhone application
  • SEP 24 2009Beginning Flex: Triggering Effects using events
  • SEP 20 2009I've been accepted to speak at BFlex-BFusion!
  • SEP 20 2009Beginning Flex: TileList using the itemClick vs click events
  • SEP 13 2009Beginning Flex: Creating your first custom event
  • SEP 12 2009Beginning Flex: Creating a new Flex project in Flex Builder 3
  • SEP 11 2009Beginning Flex: Why you should learn Flex and Actionscript
  • SEP 11 2009Clever commercial: Chicken vs Dokken
  • SEP 08 2009Another presentation in the bag: Exploring the AIR API slidedeck and code now available
  • SEP 04 2009Registration for CFinNC is now open! The hot new conference in Raleigh is FREE!
  • SEP 04 2009From the Inbox: jQuery, web design, and programming links
  • AUG 26 2009This just in. I'm speaking at CFinNC in October!
  • AUG 20 2009I'm speaking on the AIR API at the Nashville Flash Platform User Group on September 8th
  • AUG 19 2009Closing Eclipse perspective buttons for deleted plugins
  • AUG 17 2009shrinkURL updated, new service added
  • AUG 15 2009My Local Development Setup Part II: The Software
  • AUG 14 2009iPhone Application Development BoF notes - CFUnited
  • AUG 12 2009My first CFUnited session is in the bag. Thanks to all of you that came out.
  • AUG 12 2009CFUnited keynote - live blogging
  • AUG 11 2009CFUnited starts tomorrow. If you like jQuery and AIR, make sure to check out my session!
  • AUG 10 2009Clearing the air, the real story behind Ben Nadel's scar
  • AUG 09 2009CFUnited 2009 is almost upon us!
  • JUL 24 2009Adobe Connect Recording - HTML / jQuery AIR App Dev with SQLite
  • JUL 07 2009I'm now an iPhone owner!
  • JUL 07 2009Browser manufacturers, HTML 5 / JavaScript 2 working groups, and the 3 legged internet race
  • JUL 03 2009Using Wordpress for the first time, my thoughts on the process...
  • JUN 27 2009Palm Pre's WebOS Mojo SDK leaked to the wild
  • JUN 26 2009New document template, CSS, JS, HTML
  • JUN 24 2009New development releases: CFEclipse 1.3.4 and Eclipse 3.5
  • JUN 21 2009jQuery and AIR: Transparent AIR applications with custom chrome
  • JUN 20 2009New Adobe Centaur (ColdFusion 9) wallpaper
  • JUN 20 2009New ColdFusion Bolt (ColdFusion Builder) wallpaper
  • JUN 19 2009ColdFusion 9 / ColdFusion Builder User Group Tour: New features - server manager, cfspreadsheet, and cfmap
  • JUN 14 2009New ColdFusion 9 wallpaper
  • JUN 14 2009Creating a starfield, planet, and zoomed text in Photoshop CS4
  • JUN 12 2009jQuery and AIR: AIR methods abstracted into jQuery plugin
  • JUN 08 2009jQuery and AIR: Importing an AIR project into an existing workspace
  • JUN 08 2009ColdFusion User Group Tour comes to Nashville
  • JUN 07 2009jQuery and AIR: Writing content to the file system via drag and drop
  • MAY 28 2009Presenting tonight to the Nashville CFUG. jQuery and AIR development
  • MAY 26 2009jQuery and AIR: Creating a new AIR project in Aptana
  • MAY 20 2009I'm in the newest CFConversations, cf.Objective() 2009 edition!
  • MAY 19 2009cf.Objective() 2009 slides for jQuery and AIR presentation
  • MAY 17 2009cf.Objective() wrap up. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
  • MAY 15 2009iPhone Application Development BoF notes - cf.Objective
  • MAY 14 2009cfObjective 2009 Keynote - The State of the Union
  • MAY 12 2009My cf.Objective Schedule - 2009
  • MAY 10 2009Happy Mother's Day!
  • MAY 08 2009Shrinkadoo now listed in the Adobe AIR Marketplace
  • MAY 07 2009Disc golf at cf.Objective() anyone?
  • MAY 01 2009New BOF at cf.Objective() - iPhone development : I'm co-leading it!
  • MAY 01 2009A pure PC guy on the iPhone SDK, XCode, and Interface Builder
  • APR 27 2009Internet Explorer 7 32 bit install file
  • APR 23 2009Presenting to the Nashville CFUG. jQuery and AIR development
  • APR 05 2009Shrinkadoo updated to v0.6. Now with history!
  • APR 04 2009ShrinkURL now at v0.5.6. Adds support for Digg short urls
  • APR 02 2009Mikogo: New screensharing app for the PC and Mac
  • MAR 26 2009Daddy's little web designer...
  • MAR 23 2009JavaScript replace method takes functions as arguments? Who knew?
  • MAR 21 200910 new services added to ShrinkURL; now at v0.5.5
  • MAR 17 2009Shrinkadoo 0.5, now with copy/paste (take that Apple)
  • MAR 07 2009Copying text to the system clipboard in Javascript AIR applications
  • MAR 07 2009Shrinkadoo updated to version 0.4.5
  • MAR 05 2009AIR Updater class is giving me trouble. Can you help?
  • MAR 03 2009Shrinkadoo, jQuery/ColdFusion powered URL shortening AIR app
  • FEB 25 2009shrinkURL updated to version 0.4.4, demo interface rewritten
  • FEB 12 2009shrinkURL updated to version 0.4.0
  • FEB 01 2009Passing arguments into a ColdFusion method
  • JAN 28 2009Lost: Season 5, Episode 3
  • FEB 04 2009Iterative Development and my Blog Software
  • JAN 28 2009I'm speaking at cf.Objective()!!
  • JAN 25 2009shrinkURL updated to version 0.3.1
  • JAN 25 2009Lentil and Orzo Salad
  • JAN 23 2009Something old, something new...blogging software that is
  • JAN 23 2009Adam Tuttle releases SweetTweets, uses shrinkURL
  • JAN 22 2009Comments are now fixed.
  • JAN 21 2009Lost: Season 5, Episode 1 and 2
  • JAN 20 200924: Episode 03 and 04: 10am to 12pm
  • JAN 19 2009shrinkURL - API wrapper for URL shortening services
  • JAN 17 2009Locks of Love: or how I learned to let go
  • JAN 16 2009ColdFusion Bolt wallpaper - download it now!
  • JAN 14 2009Adding the nofollow attribute to external links with jQuery
  • JAN 14 2009Comments are now live
  • JAN 13 2009Calling a page via a link with a target attribute
  • JAN 11 200924 Episode 01 and 02: 8am to 10am
  • JUL 22 2009It's official! I'm speaking at CFUnited 2009!
  • JAN 09 2009My Local Development Setup Part I: The Hardware
  • JAN 05 2009Review: I Am Legend (2007)
  • JAN 04 2009CSS and HTML: Alphabet Soup or Best Friends Forever
  • JAN 04 2009Filler text - A humorous Lorem Ipsum replacement
  • JAN 04 2009Undelivrnator - ColdFusion based undelivered mail spooler
  • JAN 04 2009picasaCFC - ColdFusion based Picasa feed reader
  • JAN 04 2009About me: Who is Andy Matthews
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