Gregory's Blog

Posts made on June 2019

Fine tuning your theme with Kendo Theme Builder

Fine tuning your theme with Kendo Theme Builder

Gregory Alexander, Galaxie Blog

Using the Kendo UI Theme Builder to customize a Kendo theme.                                      
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Using a dynamic variable to set a dynamic path variable when dropping a cookie

Using a dynamic variable to set a dynamic path variable when dropping a cookie

Gregory Alexander, ColdFusion

Using ColdFusion’s cookie scope to set a dynamic path value.                                      
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Theme Settings in the administrative web interface.

Theme Settings in the administrative web interface.

Gregory Alexander, Galaxie Blog

Galaxie Blog has 14 different beautiful default themes that you can choose from. Each theme can be easily customized using a web interface.
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Using the Kendo pager anywhere within a page.

Using the Kendo pager anywhere within a page.

Gregory Alexander, Tech

The kendoPager is a beautiful widget that typically allows the user to navigate through a Kendo grid. It has fast forward and forward buttons to go to the first item and the previous item, displays the current page, which you can click to select another page, and forward and fast forward buttons to select the next and the last grid page. It is an intuitive control that is adaptive and themable. This article will show you how to use the Kendo Pager anywhere on a page.
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An open source version of Kendo Core is incorporated in Galaxie Blog

An open source version of Kendo Core is incorporated in Galaxie Blog

Gregory Alexander, Galaxie Blog

I have incorporated the open source version of Telerik's Kendo UI into Galaxie Blog. The reasons for this are numerous. ColdFusion on the server side is great, but in my opinion, relying upon ColdFusion for the UI was a zero sum game- its outdated, proprietary, and just plain buggy. Several years ago, I ditched using ColdFusion's UI, and moved on using Kendo with jQuery
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ColdFusion error: The current user is not authorized to invoke this method.

ColdFusion error: The current user is not authorized to invoke this method.

Gregory Alexander, Tech

I wanted to document this as this error is not often found using google, but if you receive a ColdFusion error "The current user is not authorized to invoke this method.", it could be due to using the roles attribute in a cfffunction tag that don't match the roles that you set using the cflogin tag upon successful login.
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