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 […]
Before we begin the second installment of “Friday Fun”, I have two kind of housekeeping notes to make. One, I think I will not necessarily do this series every week after all, because I suspect I’ll run out of things to talk about and it’ll end up flooding the site […]
In my post from last week I talked about the new site I'm working on and the need to blog on it. I also mentioned that I really didn't want to do another blog since I already have three. For those who may not have checked out my "Me Me […]
Welcome to first installment of the new “Friday Fun” series! My goal with this is to post every Friday with something fun that isn’t web development, etc, as a way to kick off the weekend and maybe share a bit more of myself beyond coder and DB girl 🙂 I […]
One thing missing from the site I mentioned in my last post is a blog element. I honestly don't want to do another blog (I have three already, gesh), but it seems like it is a "requirement" and the lesser of two evils between that and using Twitter. Obviously I'm […]
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 […]