CFInternals

Is Your Site Design Ready For The Future? Part II

As we discussed yesterday in Part I, what happens when many of the slick visual elements we've grown so accustomed to using are no longer usable?

Here are a few thoughts on user interfaces in a direct-manipulation world.

Is Your Site Design Ready For The Future? Part I

What happens to existing interface design conventions when exposed to a paradigm shift? What happens when a fundamental principle upon which you've build nearly everything begins to crumble?

It's an important question to consider, because even though you may not have noticed, things are starting to change.

ColdFusion Still Sucks... Point and Counterpoint.

Aaron at Welcome to Nerdville has published a rant dismissing ColdFusion as rubbish, full of memory leaks, and states that ColdFusion "has the least consistent syntax of any language I’ve ever used".

Let's take these claims one by one, shall we?

A better way to do "snippets".

How many of you use snippets in Dreamweaver? I don't. Usually because it seems to take twice as long to go to the snippets view and find the one I want vs. just typing the code in directly. Yes, you can assign a control-key-combo, but finding a free one that's also halfway mnemonic is usually an exercise in futility. But there is a solution.

iPhone Development Camp Sponsored by Adobe

Bringing together two of my favorite subjects, an iPhone development camp will be in part sponsored by Adobe, and hosted at Adobe's San Francisco offices. The event, scheduled for July 6-8, 2007, will include web designers, developers, testers, and iPhone owners, all working together over the weekend to improve the web experience for iPhone and to optimize web sites for iPhone. Sounds like it could be fun.

Why I've come to love the broken box model.

Read any treatise on CSS and markup and you're bound to come across the maxim: Use only as much markup as you need... and no more. I've found, however, that a better motto is: Use just enough, plus a little bit more. Here's why.

Apple's iPhone to support third-party Web 2.0 applications...

Steve Jobs announced today that Apple's iPhone will support third-party Web 2.0 applications when it begins shipping on June 29. While not totally unexpected, this approach opens the floodgates in a way that a standard "Cocoa-based" API would not.

Deploying ColdFusion on OS X using Parallels - Installation

We've covered the advantages and disadvantages to using Parallels to deploy virtual Windows "servers" on your Mac for development. Now let's get down to it. Here's how to successfully install Parallels, Windows, and ColdFusion on OS X.

Adobe's Flash/Flex online store... problem.

Has anyone noticed that Adobe's online store seems to be 100% Flash/Flex? All well and good, but browsing to it in Safari with plugins turned off--as I just did when researching the GoLive article--gives you nothing but a blank page. Not good.

So how does one assure that your users are going to see your fancy Flash/Flex/AJAX site?

Adobe releases GoLive 9, but prefers you'd buy Dreamweaver

Just a quick note, Adobe just released Adobe GoLive 9, but has devoted an entire page and a good portion of a FAQ as to why you should switch to Dreamweaver instead. Even the product purchase page contains a Dreamweaver upsell.

GoLive, like DW, is priced at $399 for the full version, and while they want you to switch, there doesn't seem to be a cross-upgrade available for prior GL customers. Also note that even though the page shows a pretty box, it's virtual. GoLive is only available as a electronic download.