Matt Gifford AKA ColdFuMonkeh

Matt Gifford. Powered by caffeine. Owner of
too many bad shirts. Web wrestling lover of
ColdFusion, Flex and all things geek.

mid-week music

06.30.10 Posted in Development, monkehRadio by Matt Tags: monkehRadio, music

Get your working day kick-started with some help from monkehRadio.

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get your Tuesday on!

06.29.10 Posted in Development, monkehRadio by Matt Tags: monkehRadio, music

Get your working day kick-started with some help from monkehRadio.

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Web Designer jQuery UI Tutorial

05.10.10 Posted in Development, Tutorials by Matt Tags: designers, developers, jQuery, Tutorial

With the recent release of jQuery UI’s updated version (1.8), the enhanced and extended widgets provided with the UI library offer developers and designers alike a superb framework and pre-defined interactive elements for use in wire-framing or production environments.

Issue 170 of Web Designer Magazine features my latest four-page tutorial on implementing the jQuery UI 1.8 framework and widgets into your web projects.

SOTR 2010 Wordpress Plugin

02.21.10 Posted in Development, Events by Matt Tags: SOTR

The badgers are on the march again, and the 2010 Scotch on the Rocks conference will be with us very soon.
To celebrate and to promote the event, I have developed a Wordpress widget plugin for any WP blog users out there.
The plugin allows the user to select which SOTR10 badge they wish to display on [...]

Web Designer Magazine / AIR 2 Tutorial

01.14.10 Posted in AIR, Development, Tutorials by Matt Tags: Adobe, AIR, Tutorial

With the welcome release of Adobe AIR 2 in beta, revised APIs and additional classes and features provide end users with an enhanced experience, whilst still giving developers a simple but extremely powerful way to develop feature-rich desktop applications.

In the tutorial featured in the January(166) issue of Web Designer magazine, I’ll guide through building an [...]