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Adding a Dynamic jQuery Progressbar to the ColdFusion Twitter/Google Maps Mashup

Because my ColdFusion driven Twitter/Google Maps Mashup is so slow, I decided that it would be nice to have a dynamic progress bar, which updates the status as each of the user's friend's addresses are being looked up. I knew that the jQuery UI project has a Progressbar widget, so I did a quick Google for "jQuery Progressbar ColdFusion", and, no big surprise, came across a blog post by Ray Camden on the topic. That was enough to get me started, but Ray didn't cover creating a dynamic progress bar that is updated by the currently running page.

I figured that I could build something using cfflush, and I was not mistaken. Here's a summary of what I did:

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jQuery Auto-Filtering Table

I've been using jQuery for about a year now and I must admit that pretty much any JavaScript that I wrote prior to that looks ugly to me now. I know I'm nowhere near the first person to say this, but if you write JavaScript and you aren't using jQuery, you should check it out. Now.

Anyway, I wanted to show you how easy it is to do something cool with jQuery. The next thing I'll admit is that much of what I'm doing with jQuery involves using existing plugins written by other, more seasoned JavaScripters than me. But enough talk, here's the table:

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