Two new projects and one update this (shortened) week. Since my last post was on Tuesday night, this covers a much shorter week and thus we don't have as many posts to cover. Either that or folks are too busy watching the insane playoff series between the Celtics and the Bulls. Being that I live in Boston, I am rooting for the Celts but my true team is the Heat, who look to have gotten things under control with the Hawks. Anyway, here's the ColdFusion open source posts from people who aren't too distracted by the NBA playoffs.

No, I don't snowboard or skateboard. The 360 Indy I am talking about is 360|Flex Indianapolis , which is already less than 1 month away. From watching the 360|Flex Twitter feed , I gather that tickets (and sponsorship slots) are going really fast, so you should get registered while you still can. Even at the non-early-bird rate of $550, this conference is a great bargain (and at least from the Boston area there were super cheap flights going out of Providence).

I am very excited as this will be the first time I get to make it to a 360|Flex and, now that there is only 1 per year, I couldn't miss this one (even if it meant I sadly have to miss my first cf.Objective()). If you want to know why I am so excited, just check the schedule. Not only that, but I have been assured they are working on some awesome swag and the Bug Quash should be fun.

Anyway, if you are going, look me up while you are there!

jQuery UI offers a sortable interaction that makes it very simple to make anything (usually a list) sortable (perhaps reorderable is a better term) by the user. Under many circumstances this can be achieved with a single line of JavaScript code (see below). On occassion you may want to allow a user to reorder the contents of a table rather than a list. This also takes only one line of code, except if you want this to work properly in the dreaded IE browser. This post will cover how to fix the rendering issue you get in Internet Explorer when reordering table rows.

Using the tabs UI functionality in jQuery can be amazingly easy, assuming you just want to convert some basic content into a tab layout. However, once you start trying to dynamically add/remove tabs (as you will often run into on advanced layouts) it gets a little hairy. As with everything injQuery UI in my experience so far, you can do what you want its just neither straightforward or well documented. This tutorial will show the ways you can add/remove or show/hidejQuery tabs and some of the gotchas and drawbacks associated with those methods.

Four new projects and four updates this week along with a long list of announcements and tutorials. Sorry for the delay posting but I was off being patriotic on Patriots Day. No, this isn't a holiday to celebrate Tom Brady and Bill Bellichick as I would abstain from such a day.