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 […]
I imagine most of you have heard of Adobe's launch last year of the new "Creative Cloud" (CC) versions of the programs within its Creative Suite (CS) line. When it first came out, I wasn't particularly concerned. I figured it was aimed at specific markets, like big business that might […]
I love Google Reader, especially combined with iGoogle, as it allowed me to easily track new posts on the various blogs of interest to me in a nice compact format that remembers what I’ve read or not read. If the title is interesting, I can click it to open in […]
Back when I was first learning web design, you generally sliced up large images into multiple files because it was believed it resulted in a faster loading time. These days the rule is just the opposite – fewer images, JavaScript files, and CSS files can improve loading performance quite a […]
There are times when I envy web app developers who don't have to deal with much on the UI end because they have other people in their departments/organizations that deal with it. Alas, in our small shop, we code the apps and we have to do all the UI stuff, […]
In one of our applications, we have a couple of “core views”, i.e. view stuff that is used in a couple different places, so we have it in one tidy CFM for easier maintenance. For most of them, the content coming in is the same or similar in nature, however […]
I fully admit, the template for this site is kind of bleh. It is one of the pre-built templates that comes with Mango blog that I only made a few quick basic customizations to. I've never been fully happy with it, so this morning I finally spent a little time […]
I am, it would appear, something of an oddity amongst "serious" ColdFusion developers, and maybe developers in general. Why? Well, besides the whole female thing, my IDE of choice is Dreamweaver, specifically CS5.5 as of today. Yes, that Dreamweaver. I started using it around 2002-2003 with Studio MX. At the […]
I like ColdFusion's structs, they are simple and easy to use/reference, work great for transporting bits of related data, and names are so much easier to reference than numbers. 😉 We use them in all of our applications for returning result messages and the like. Never really had any issues […]
The addition of the CFSPREADSHEET and all the SpreadSheet functions to ColdFusion 9 was an awesome thing. We have so many apps where clients want an Excel sheet and for whom a CVS is a foreign language. Before CF 9, we used POI to build our spreadsheets, and it worked […]