Nov
21
2004
I'm finally done... Cartweaver ASP is now for sale at the new and improved Cartweaver.com.
2004
63 posts
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.
Nov
16
2004
Oh how I love Beyond Compare
It's saved large patches of my hair
It checks my files and keeps me sane
Without it my job would be a pain
Oct
29
2004
This is just s test post to see if my blog is actually usable in Pocket IE. So far so good.
Oct
28
2004
It's almost MAX time. I fly out of Portland on Halloween, so it should be an exciting first evening in New Orleans.
Oct
24
2004
I've finally found a program for reading my newsgroups in Outlook :). No more Outlook Express to deal with, and I can use all of the management features of Outlook to keep track of all of my newsgroup posts. The program is called Newshound, and it's a plugin for Microsoft Outlook, which is a steal at $30. You can find screenshots and a features list on their site.
Oct
18
2004
Yes, I know it's punny, but I couldn't help it!!! I spent all day Saturday at Amity Vineyards picking grapes. Yep... picking grapes. Amity Vineyards has a Harvest Party every year where poor suckers like us get to go see what it's like to work in a vineyard, and I'll tell you, it's damn hard work. I believe we picked a grand total of 10 tons of grapes off of 3 acres, which Myron Redford will use to make Pinot Noir and other tasty wines.
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
29
2004
Had a good night tonight at the Rhythym Lab taking Bongo lessons. I learned a very hard lesson though. Keep that thumb away from the Bongo when you're not playing Martillo. Tain't fun I tell ya...
Sep
14
2004
This one's been in my iTunes list for a few weeks now, and I like it more and more everyday. Then I checked out his site and love it even more :). Bob Schneider's site makes a great use of Flash, while at the same time letting you listen to his entire album along with commentary on each song. Veeeery nice.
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).
Sep
1
2004
Just thought I would let everyone know that I am indeed still alive and kicking. I just spent 10 days down in sunny Southern California getting work done for Lynda.com and Cartweaver (shhh... ASP). As soon as I got back I had to move into a new apartment, so I'm just now getting to a point where I can *gasp* breathe.
Jul
8
2004
I know, I'm slow, but sue me why dontcha? The new Cartweaver (our wonderful ColdFusion shopping cart) has been completely redone, ala Angela.
Jul
8
2004
Just launched a new client site based off of Cartweaver, Draw 3 Lines. The site sells a kit to learn to draw (something I could desperately use), and assorted supplies for such. The site is simple, being geared towards a younger audience, but it definitely sells the product well.
Jul
3
2004
I had an issue with FireFox opening twice anytime I clicked a link in Outlook (or any other office program for that matter). Turns out it was due on an incorrect registry setting when FireFox makes itself the default browser. The FireFox team has a registry fix for it.
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
Jun
9
2004
Larry Lyons pointed me to a post on House of Fusion that discussed a way to run CFMX or BlueDragon from a CD, which would allow you to send out mini-applications on CD to potential clients. This is somethign I blogged about some time ago, and it looks like CFAnywhere might be the answer.
Jun
1
2004
I finished Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury yesterday, and given the fact that the book was printed in 1953, I have to wonder if Ray Bradbury really could see the future. His vision of the homogenzation of society was even scarier given the fact that he wrote about it more than half a century ago. The idea of every group (and he mentions them as minorities) getting offended by one thing or another, and removing that item/word/idea that's offenstive, until we eventually have nothing but a plain vanilla world, devoid of any real meaning or independent thought. Just gave me the chills :D
May
24
2004
Well today I gave my one week notice at the day job. Starting on the 1st of June, I'm a free man. I'll be working for them on a contractor basis, but I'll no longer be there 8 hours a day, free to concentrate on my own work.
May
20
2004
I've had a CF scheduled task running hourly for a few months now without issue. On the 14th of May, for some reason, the scheduled task ran but wasn't rescheduled for it's next run. There's nothing in the CF logs that I can find that says why it might not have rescheduled. After forcing the scheduled task to run through the ColdFusion Administrator, it then successfully rescheduled for it's next run, and has been running fine since. If anyone has seen this happen, or knows where I might be able to dig for more debugging information, I'd like to hear it.
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
10
2004
Had some time to burn at the local Fred Meyer, so as usual I did a bit of a musical slurge:
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...
Apr
12
2004
This is exactly what I want to do to my Jeep (or whatever vehicle may soon replace it). I have the iTrip FM tuner which works alright, but there are odd interferences, and you have to ditch whatever On-the-go playlist you have going in order to switch FM channels on those long drives. Not to mention that you still have power cables somewhere as well as some type of holder taking up space. The ability to hook right into the deck via an RCA cable would give you the clearest sound you can get out of the iPod, which would be fanstastic. I've seen rumors of Alpine coming out with an iPod capable deck, but no telling how far out that is...
Apr
10
2004
For the longest time I kind of looked down my nose at Netflix, didn't really know why, just seemed like a goofy idea to me. Well I finally decided I'd try out their 2 week trial membership, and I must say I'm duly impressed. Here's a quick timeline for you:
Mar
26
2004
Eric Meyer reminded me how much I loved The Matrix soundtrack, and particuarly Spybreak, then I found Decksanddrumsandrockandroll on iTunes, and after listening to the clips had to buy it...
Mar
26
2004
Been loving iTunes lately, and it's done nothing to help control my music habit (damn those enablers....).
Mar
25
2004
Thanks to Eric Meyer for a link to a LiveJounral entry by Brad Chin. I've never been good with words when it comes to my own personal life/emotion. I can explain the workings of a database, SQL or the latest ColdFusion widget in glowing terms, but ask how I'm feeling today or what I think about the effects of an event on my own life, and words leave me. Brad says very well how I like to live my life...
Mar
22
2004
I have found the portal to Nirvana... and it's Engadget. A gadget lover's dream :)
Mar
18
2004
I'm trying to find out if it's possible to run a ColdFusion app from a CD-ROM. I can't seem to find anything about embedding a web server onto a CD though. I'm about 99% sure you can't do this with ColdFusion MX, but from a few snippets about New Atlanta's Blue Dragon I think it might just be possible. I just don't have the knowledge to make it happen.
Mar
17
2004
If so, then Dan wants YOU! <finger stype="pointing: at you;" /> (figuratively speaking of course). I'm looking for a few good killer apps for the Mac, because hey, I paid for the thing, I might as well tweak it out.
Mar
17
2004
And I like it. I bought one of these.....
Mar
17
2004
Well it turns out that my funky list space was due to whitespace in the code (dirty rats). For example, this caused reserved space in IE on the PC:
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
It's amazing to me how people get here. Here's what people searching through Microsoft use to get to my site:
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 />.
Mar
9
2004
My good friends Michael and Eric got married on Friday :-D
Feb
25
2004
I'll most likely be buying one of these posters and you should, too. My gay and lesbian friends have just as much right to have their love legally recognized as do those of a strictly hetero persuasion. It amazes me that government can so blatantly saction such bigotry as trying to amend the constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages... just makes my blood boil.
Feb
14
2004
By far the oddest link to my blog ever, http://www.kelleyfurniture.com/Office-Deskeg.html ... can't quite tell why they did :)
Feb
12
2004
This is for the benefit of those of you who found as little information as I did on Google about MySQL converting dates to Binary when using DATE_FORMAT, or just about any other formatting function inside your SQL. Now, I could have sworn I'd tried this before, but I must have been high on Pepsi. Anyway, here's the SQL that was giving me binary data:
Feb
12
2004
You can now view book details directly from the Sales Rank Tracker. Now I don't have to go to Amazon to check the latest reviews or ratings either ;). Just call me lazy, I can take it :)
Feb
11
2004
I'm playing with a new project, and if you're an author and interested, please check out the Amazon SalesRank Tracker and let me know how you get on with it. There has been at least one report of difficulty with login/session scoping, but I'm leaning more and more towards a local issue on that user's machine since I can't pinpoint (until further notice I'll be blaming Norton).
Feb
10
2004
Feb
10
2004
I love tiny buttons, I don't know why, but they just make me feel good. And to feed my sickness, I found Taylor McKnight's Steal These Buttons.
Feb
9
2004
Posting this to my blog from the new FireFox browser (used to be FireBird) and I must say that it's pretty darn slick. Faster, still with the same great developer tools like CSS edit, but there's also a new DOM Inspector. Talk about tasty stuff :)
Feb
9
2004
I'm generally an apolitical person, but the 2000 election was a bit of an eye opener for me. I found it amazing that just one man could tip the balance between Bush and Gore, and that was Nader... So to keep Bush out of office this next election, be sure to let Nader know he should throw his support behind someone who can win, instead of siphoning votes from them.
Feb
8
2004
I heard Allah and Buddah
Were singin' at the savior's feast
While up in the sky, an Arabian Rabbi
Fed Quaker oats to a Priest
Feb
8
2004
Spider Food has risen from the dead :). After a long personal hiatus, JK Bowman is back at it, hot on the trail of every search engine out there. He's also upgraded and improved his forums, and is starting to build some lively discussion about the goings on at Google and the other big engines. There's a lot of movement in the industry lately with rumors of a Google IPO and AOL dropping them from their search listings. Fun fun fun :).
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
6
2004
I am the most famousest Dan Short in the WHOLE WORLD BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Feb
5
2004
Feb
3
2004
I always knew that our countries were close, but this is ridiculous.
Feb
3
2004
I'm going bald, and it's all MySQL's fault... (at least I hope it is).
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.
Jan
9
2004
I just have to say that I'm loving ColdFusion more and more every day. I've been working on a charting application using CF's CFCHART tag, and by golly that's some sexy stuff. If you've never messed with, do...