On September 3rd, Peter Farrell announced that the team behind the Mach-II ColdFusion framework (himself, Matt Williams and Kurt Wiersma) will no longer be working on or supporting the framework. With a 10 year run, those who initially made it and kept going have much to be proud of. When […]
While working on a site recently, I wanted to pull some data from an RSS feed to load into a page. A pretty simple thing to do, thanks to ColdFusion's lovely CFFEED tag. I mean what more can you ask for – one line of code turns any RSS feed […]
For one of our current projects, we're building a "contact list" feature, i.e. a way for users to pull up lists of persons in the system. They have a choice of stock lists and can build their own custom lists. I might try to blackm persuade my partner to do […]
I'm a big fan of the dataTables jQuery plug-in. It takes your tables of data and adds all the sorts of goodies that all the sorts that clients adore, like pagination, filtration, column sorting, and pretty styling with minimal fuss and code. It can read from a variety of data […]
One feature of ColdFusion Builder/Eclipse that I've always looked at longingly when my partner used it was popping in a snippet with a keyboard shortcut. Why oh why didn't Dreamweaver have such an awesome feature? Well, I discovered recently that it does, and has since at least Dreamweaver 8! So, […]
Like most of you, I hope, I don't just write code and throw it up on a production server and see if it works. Rather after you've written it, you run it on a development platform that mimics your production server relatively closely. At work, we have a development server […]
I recently created a new web site. It's a small, simple site, what really amounts to just a few static pages. It doesn't have a database, a search function, forms, etc. It could quite easily be a straight HTML, JS, and CSS site (when was the last time I did […]
Last Friday I finally finished that user guide I mentioned in my last post. It took about 22 work days, where I was able to give 4-5 hours attention to it most of those days. The finally product is 207 pages long with 335 screenshots and just over 30,000 words. […]
For the last week or so, and the next week or so, I've been working on writing a user guide for an application we launched recently. Ideally, we'd have a technical writer who would be doing this, but we're not that big a shop. Mentioning that you are writing a […]
As a web developer, I try to keep a feel for where the web is moving. These days, of course, we hear a lot about mobile development, and it's almost the norm to ask user engaging web sites if they have "an app" for users. According to Pew Internet, as […]