I am working on a friends site that uses Mura & Slatwall. I needed a way to display some breadcrumbs for the products area. Luckily Mura comes with a built in way to do this.

<div class="crumb"> #$.dspCrumbListLinks("crumbList")# </div> This uses a method in the default content renderer. This works great but I actually want to use Bootstrap to style it. To do so I need a little bit different markup than what the default content renederer provides. Luckily Mura allows us to override this method in our our own content renderer. Simply open {site}/includes/contentRenderer.cfc and add your own dspCrumbListLinks method. I just copied the method from the default and made a few changes. This will override it for all themes, of course if you need it only for a specific theme just add it to the content renderer inside the themes folder.

I am having some issues with word wrap on that code so I decided to attach a text file with the function inside. I will update this post when I fix that. Click the download attachments link in the article entry bar below.

This entry was posted on October 22, 2012 at 12:37 AM and has received 1396 views. Comments 0 | Print this entry. Download attachment.

I revamped my Bootstrap presentation and gave it to a local user group this morning. I am happy to say that it went really well. I am very happy with the new slide deck and the new direction of the presentation. I have a few things to update but other than that I can't wait to give it again. If you would be interested in me presenting it to your user group please let me know. You can click on the link below to find the slide deck and source code to the presentation. This was also my first presentation not using PowerPoint and I couldn't be happier. I used the Google io 2012 HTML5 slide deck and it was awesome. I really loved everything about it.

http://www.danvega.org/presentations

This entry was posted on October 21, 2012 at 2:49 AM and has received 2210 views. Comments 1 | Print this entry.

I have become a huge fan of Sublime Text 2. It's full featured, customizable and all the cool kids are using it. I came across a tuts+ Premium video that was posted on YouTube and it is really awesome. You get a 2.5 hour walk through on getting started with the editor and pretty much everything you need to now.

This entry was posted on October 18, 2012 at 7:11 PM and has received 2602 views. Comments 0 | Print this entry.

Google comes with the coolest services. This one allows programmers to practice typing. It allows you to pick a language and then test your speed as well as your efficiency. Head over to http://typing.io and test your skills right now.

This entry was posted on September 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM and has received 2247 views. Comments 0 | Print this entry.

I wanted to let everyone about a new series that Joe Rinehart started called Grails for CFML developers. These are short, detailed walk through's on how to get started with Grails. He does a great job of comparing how you would do something in the CFML world and the equivalent of doing the same in Grails. It has been over a year since the last time I looked into Groovy and Grails and wow has it evolved. The 2.0+ framework fixed a bunch of things and added some really great features. There is nothing wrong with learning how do things in another language / framework so as I always do here, I encourage you to pick up another skill. You will start to see a ton of Grails posts on this blog so stay tuned and in the meantime check out Joe's series by clicking the link below.

http://compiledammit.com/grails-for-cfml-devs/

This entry was posted on August 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM and has received 2610 views. Comments 0 | Print this entry.