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Improving the tutorial (again): including partials to DRY up forms in Wheels

This past week, Kenneth Barrett asked a question on Twitter about how to DRY up his form code in ColdFusion on Wheels. He didn't want to have a copy of the same form across 2 view files. This is because he is a smart guy, even as a beginner! :)

I linked Kenneth to a post that I wrote a year ago about combining 2 forms into a single view file. That approach works well for certain scenarios, but I've since changed my mind on my general preference for DRYing up forms.

Read on to see what exactly I've changed my mind on.

Pop up PDFs in a new window with jQuery

I was looking for a good way to pop up all PDF links in a new window and ran across PDF links open in a new window">Dennison Uy's post with code.

But I did modify his code slightly. Read on for what I did and why.

Experimenting with flashMessages() in ColdFusion on Wheels

On my Labs site, I've written another page exploring a view helper coming up in ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.1 called flashMessages(). Read on about it if you want more details, but here's the gist.

Playing around with automatic validations in Wheels 1.1

A cool new feature coming up in ColdFusion on Wheels 1.1 is automatic validations. I wrote a page last night to play around with the new feature a little and figure out how it all works.

Bug fixes in ColdFISH on Wheels version 0.3

I went to deploy my new ColdFISH on Wheels plugin on my Linux server and got a curious error. Especially if you're using Linux, you'll want to upgrade to ColdFISH on Wheels 0.3 ASAP.

What happened? Read on to find out.