About

Denard Springle is a freelance software systems engineer with more than a decade of ColdFusion development experience and over 20 years of progressive IT and development experience in numerous languages including Perl and Java. As host of the Northern Virginia ColdFusion User's Group (NVCFUG), Denard frequently presents on advanced topics of interest to ColdFusion developers and facilitates social and code camp gatherings for networking and more intense instruction in development techniques.

jQuery, CSS3 and ColdFusion

Most CF developers have switched gears away from the Ajax library provided with ColdFusion and towards jQuery as their framework of choice for not just Ajax but so much more. We'll explore the basics of jQuery selectors, methods and plugins and how they work together with the new CSS3 standards and ColdFusion to produce truly interesting web applications and visual effects. We'll explore Ajax functionality and how to implement a single Ajax API to handle all web application requests.