Feb
23
2009
Nifty little Web Development Project Estimator.
Category: Dreamweaver
50 posts
Feb
15
2009
This might be nice for those of us that are color-challenged :)
Sep
5
2008
This is news to me, but it looks like Adobe is discontinuing the FlashPaper...
Jul
29
2008
Can you help find this man...
Jan
4
2007
I have a problem, and it's ColdFusion... We're working on some complex object interaction, and moving data in and out of our objects. Part of the "moving in" part involves building out a structure of arguments based on query columns, and then passing them all in via the ArgumentCollection. Unfortunately, ColdFusion doesn't love us here at lynda.com... It's pitching a fit and saying that our IDs aren't of type numeric, when I know damn well that they are (grumble grumble)...
Oct
29
2006
I'm having an absolute bear of a time getting Eclipse to play nicely with Subversion, Eclipse, and an Ant build file. One of the wonderful things about working with Dreamweaver is the great FTP integration. I can upload, download, all that wonderful stuff, with a single keyboard shortcut directly in the IDE. I'm not having any such luck with Eclipse.
Jun
26
2006
Yes, I signed them as well :)
Jun
6
2006
As part of my new job, I got myself a MacBook pro and have been running Bootcamp on it over the last few days. All in all the experience is good, but there are issues with Windows running on the MacBook that bother me (bad sound drivers, and the fact that the clock resets on each startup). However, before I installed BootCamp I spent quite a bit of time on the Mac and got over some of my "floating windows" phobias. To that end, I'm considering going all the way and switching to OSX. So to get to my point, is there anyone out there that's recently been through this that can give me some pointers on what I might miss?
Jun
5
2006
Mar
17
2006
That's right, I have confirmed through sources yet to be named (ACE people) that MAX will be this October 22nd to the 26th in sunny Las Vegas. They planned it on my birfday on purpose y'know...
Feb
24
2006
That's right folks. Dreamweaver 8 Dynamic Development is now available at lynda.com. This title uses ColdFusion to teach you all about handling Dynamic Development in Dreamweaver. You'll learn how to install ColdFusion (yes, on the mac too), as well as how to install MySQL and get up and running quickly.
Feb
22
2006
The hardest thing about learning anything OO related is simply getting over the language barrier. Anytime you talk to an OO afficionado, you always end up hearing a term you don't understand. My biggest problem with learning Model-Glue, Reactor and ColdSpring, three things I really want to start using, is finding out what IOC, AOP, DAO, Beans, Transfer Objects, Gateway Objects, and all of the other terms mean, so that I can actually make it all the way through the documentation. Google searches are alright, but I've never had one spot I could go to find out what it all meant.
Feb
17
2006
While I was in Ojai recording the Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics title for lynda.com there were some reports from the Ventura County Star writing an article on lynda.com. They wanted to take a few photos of someone doing a recording, and they ended up using a shot of me on the front page of the Business section of their February 15th article. See mom and dad, I really do do real work :). Click the image for a larger version.
Feb
16
2006
Don't ask me why I never tried this before... I've always just done a <cfoutput>#myVar#</cfoutput> when I needed to find out what a local variable value was. This often meant scattering them all over my page to figure out what piece of code I got wrong... I finally decided I'd just try dumping the local variable scope, and wallah voila! I get a full dump of every local variable on the page, including queries, available functions, the whole bit. I don't know why I never tried that before...
Feb
16
2006
Stephanie Sullivan has a post on her blog at Community MX regarding the survival of Fireworks. It looks like the future may be bright. Cross your fingers :).
Feb
15
2006
I've been using Jon Block's wonderful online CFC generator for a while, but I always secretly hoped that he was going to create a Dreamweaver extension for it. I decided it was going to happen (he's more likely a CFEclipse user ;), so I did a quick google and found the CFC Bean Generator on the Exchange (thanks for posting about it Rob!)
Feb
12
2006
I finished up the new Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics title for lynda.com on Friday. After 4 solid days in a little sound-proof room, it's time to head back home and catch up on all of the emails and questions from readers. The Beyond the Basics title covers advanced template usage, building multi-column CSS layouts, using some rapid coding techniques in Dreamweaver you might not have known where there, as well as a chapter on getting your feet wet with dynamic development in Dreamweaver 8.
Feb
12
2006
With little fanfare (blow your trumpets please!) Macromedia Adobe introduced a new feature in the Dreamweaver 8 updater regarding template paths (see the full technote for more information).
Jan
9
2006
I never thought I'd evern actually type this into ColdFusion Comment:
Dec
5
2005
I got my copy of Dreamweaver 8 Hands-on-Training today. The pages are still warm from the printer, and it looks damned good if I do say so myself. So buy your copy today, I have x-mas presents to buy y'know!
Dec
1
2005
I finished recording Dynamic Development with Dreamweaver 8 today for Lynda.com (this time using ColdFusion). I'm not sure when it will be released, but the turnaround is usually just a couple of weeks. Hopefully this will be up right after the new year...
Nov
17
2005
If you haven't already, be sure to register for Web Design World Boston. I'll be presenting The ColdFusion Connection: Dynamic Development with Dreamweaver, and my main squeeze will be presenting Dreamweaver 8 Tips and Tricks and Customizing Dreamweaver. Check out the full agenda to see all of the other great speakers.
Nov
9
2005
I found this really slick utility through Digital Media Minute. CSSVista (a free application, Windows only folks) allows you to edt your CSS live in both IE and Firefox... (wait for it...) at the same time. It opens a copy of your page in IE and Firefox in a split view window. You can then edit the CSS just like you would in Firefox and your changes are immediately displayed in both browsers.
Nov
9
2005
Angela and I gave a presentation to the Mid-Michigan CFUG yesterday (well actually Angela gave the presentation, and I just showed some XSL stuff), and I showed everyone how to use the new XSLT visual authoring tools in Dreamweaver 8. They're great and wonderful and everything, but they're really geared towards working with local XML files. The reason I say that, is that Macromedia doesn't offer any solutions for transforming a remote XML file. They allow you to write an XSLT file to transform that remote content, but they don't tell you how to actually pull a little Optimus Prime on it and make that XML human readable.
Aug
29
2005
Don't you wish you had a geek for a girlfriend? :)
Angela found the listing for my new book on Amazon today, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Hands-On-Training. Look Ma! I'm famous!
Jun
30
2005
Rob Brooks-Bilson has a blog post stating that Macromedia will be chipping in on the open source CFEclipse project. It will be good to get some more resources behind such a good project. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with as a team.
May
11
2005
Mar
14
2005
If you're down in the LA/San Diego area, I'm going to be infiltrating the March Mingle on Monday. If you're a Cartweaver'er (or something) just look for me in my fancy Cartweaver shirt and say hello. There are going to be some good giveaways, and there should be a lot of geek-ness going on. You can find out some more details on what's being given away at Angela's blog.
Mar
12
2005
I'm posting this as much for my benefit as anyone else's. Everytime I reinstall CF I forgot how to change this. I love using the dockable CF debugging on my sites. It allows me to have all of my debugging information in a handy little popup window for reference. It's better formatted than the classic version, and I can stick it on my second monitor for reference as I go. However, it steals focus every single time a page loads. So, to disable this, just follow these simple steps:
Mar
7
2005
Well it looks like AOL has finally dropped a new Netscape. Thankfully, this one is based off of Firefox 1.0, so it should render great and be pretty stable. I haven't downloaded it yet, so if you've played with it or know of any known issues not currently in their release notes, let me know how it goes.
Nov
20
2004
If you like If statements in ASP VBScript as much as I do (and really, who doesn't?), then you need DWfaq's Custom Conditional Region. It tacks a comment on the end of your If and End If statements allowing them to be rendered in Dreamweaver's Design view. The comments also help you peg down what End Ifs go with which Ifs. I used CCR to write all of the conditional logic for the front page of the blog, and figured I'd show you how well it works.
Oct
5
2004
Macromedia today announced a Non-Commercial License option for Flex. This should make it easier for developers to start getting into Flex-based development, so we can all find out what it's really capable of :). You may just end up seeing a Flex-based UI for Dan's Shorts.... oooooooooohhhh... who knows :). They also have a nifty little page that will help everyone understand exactly what an NCL license is, so we can all figure out if we're eligible.
Oct
4
2004
Macromedia has just announced Captivate, the replacement for RoboDemo, and what a replacement it is. I've been using Camtasia for some time for doing instructional movies, but will most likely be switching to Captivate once it actually goes on sale :). They've added support for simulations, in-line audio recording, live screen capture on click-and-drag actions (sorely missing in RoboDemo) as well as the ability to import all of my old Camtasia recordings and convert them to Captivate movies.
Sep
8
2004
Well Cartweaver ASP is getting close, finally. We're looking for beta testers, so if you're interested, simply add a comment to this post with your information and I'll add you to my list of potential testers. I'd like to know your experience level with ASP along with what editor you'll be using (Homesite or Dreamweaver MX/MX2004 for example).
Jun
22
2004
I attended Ben Forta's presentation on Blackstone last night, and got some juicy bits out of it. Here's a brief recap.
Jun
19
2004
That's right, I have another title up on Lynda.com today, Dynamic Development Using ASP and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
May
19
2004
I attended the WorldWide User Group Meeting at Hot Pepper Studios here in Portland. Please forgive the spotty reporting here, but I was simply taking notes as I went, and I've done my best to clean them up so they're legible :)
May
5
2004
Macromedia is celebrating their customer community by hosting Community Week, May 17-21, an opportunity to learn, network and interact with Macromedia product managers and our customer community. Go to www.macromedia.com/community for more information.
Apr
30
2004
Just got done with another few days in the recording booth at Lynda.com recording Dreamweaver MX 2004 Databases with ASP (talk about a long title). Hopefully it should be hitting the online movie library in a few weeks :) (make me look good now editors...)
Apr
25
2004
News.com has a news bite stating that Macromedia is starting to test their development tools on Linux. Should be interesting to keep an eye on.
Apr
16
2004
That's right, Intermediate Dreamweaver MX 2004 is now available from the online training library at Lynda.com. Sign up and view it today (cause you love me... :-).
Apr
16
2004
After much twiddling, fiddling and testing of Macs, the Toggle-O-Matic Suite of behaviors is officially released. It's one of the most deceivingly simple yet powerful extensions out there (in my honestly biased opinion). The suite includes the ability to toggle classes, as well as the display and visibility CSS properties. Used in combination you can create all manner of complex menus and applications (pictures by yours truly). Lots o' fun I tell you...
Mar
17
2004
While building a tree based menu with a soon-to-be-released DWfaq extension, I started running into some very odd issues. The navigation is your typical +/- tree based menu. In order to get the + and - icons to be clickable, I set them as a background image on my <a> tags, and added some left padding to them. This worked well in Mozilla and IE on the PC and Safari on the Mac. However, IE on the mac would display the hand cursor over the + and - buttons, but they weren't clickable, you had to actually click the text to make it work. In order to fix the clickable issue on IE5 Mac, I set the anchor tags to display: block. Perfect in IE Mac, but this caused another problem....
Mar
9
2004
That's right, I'm back from sunny (actually a little drippy) Ojai, California, and the recording bits of the Intermediate Dreamweaver MX 2004 training movies from Lynda.com are done. Who knew that sitting in a booth all day could be so exhausting. Now granted, I was in a booth with Garo Green, so that might explain some of it <wink />.
First week of March I hit the sound studio with Garo Green to record the new Intermediate Dreamweaver MX 2004 CD-ROM. It's gonna be good stuff peoples :)
Feb
2
2004
Cartweaver's ColdFusion Shopping Cart version 2.6.4 has been released. This fixed a minor SQL bug and added a few new feature enhancements :). Things is good..... buy or download your update from DWfaq.
Jan
20
2004
Tom Muck's new Dreamweaver MX 2004 Complete Reference is out in stores now :). Pick up your copy today, cause I said so dontcha know...
Jan
16
2004
The latest and greatest Cartweaver 2 update is out, with a bunch of new fixes/improvements, including the ability to enable/disable shipping, sort categories and secondary categories, improved international support for the order form, improved support for Shared SSL and new integration with WorldPay Select Junior, not to mention some great extension work from Angela. All around a great (and rather extensive) update.
Oct
23
2003
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