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!
2005
34 posts
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
27
2005
I've always gone through the trouble of setting up a separate full-blown Windows 2003 Server here in my office for doing development work. The reason being that I didn't want to test on the production server, deal with FTP lags when uploading constantly changed files, and I like to keep my sites clean. I don't like testing in a base wwwroot directory and either setting up tons of subfolders or constantly clearing the wwwroot directory to get a site in the root.
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
17
2005
A slacker kind, that's what... Kim Cavanaugh posted about my book being listed on Amazon waaaay back in August, and I didn't even know... Thanks for the mention Kim, oh, and buy his book too ;)
Nov
14
2005
I've played a bit with Ruby on Rails, but just can't leave my ColdFusion behind, so it was great to see a post on Ben Forta's blog about ColdFusion on Wheels. Rob Cameron announced it on the Cube 6 Media blog today, and I'll definitely be playing with this one over the next few days. My only concern is the need for URL remapping, which I've never dealt with, and will have to find some time to get a handle on, but this is definitely going to be an exciting thing to watch, especially in connection with Joe Rhinhart's recent postings on Arf.
Nov
14
2005
I just upgraded the old server to ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise... yum...
Nov
12
2005
Business Week has a great interview with one of the owners of 37Signals on their design philosophy and why it's a good idea to keep things simple.
Nov
10
2005
Fotolia is a new stock image site that just launched, and it looks like it offers quite a large number of high quality stock images right out of the gate. The prices seem reasonable, and none of the images are "rights-managed" which means they're royalty free, and if you buy a web only license, you can use it on the web how you please (at least that's how I read it). Looks like I have a new place to go to next time I need to make myself look good :).
This problem has plagued me for ages. After setting up a new site on my server, I could never reliably connect to any of the sites with RDS. Only a very few of the first sites that were set up on the server. I've been back and forth with Dreamweaver engineers and no one could ever seem to solve the problem. I spent an hour going through Google this evening, and no one had a sure fire fix for this ridiculously unhelpful error message...
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.
Oct
24
2005
My little lady was on the tube the other day, and now I'm famous too.
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!
Jul
24
2005
Finally, I can get a good night's sleep :). Cartweaver 2 PHP, a PHP shopping cart solution for Dreamweaver, is now for sale. Get your PHP on, and buy one today!
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
19
2005
I'm not sure what the whole Musical Baton thing is about, but Bill Horvath shot it my way, so here goes :)
May
15
2005
Schlomy Gantz has put out a nifty tool for managing Windows services from the taskbar. You can set up multiple snapshots that can turn services on and off at a whim. I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my list of toys to play with this week :)
May
11
2005
May
3
2005
I love me some iTunes... I listen to it all day, and have a hard time getting any meaningful work done if I don't have some tuneage (just watch the Now Playing list to the left). But the media controls on my keyboard don't always control iTunes the way I want it to unless iTunes is in mini mode, which also means that I can't minimize it so it's not in my taskbar.
Apr
13
2005
I spent a great deal of time fighting with something yesterday for no good reason. I was trying to extend the root Application.cfc in my application from an Application.cfc inside a subfolder. Here's what I had in my subfolder's Application.cfc:
Apr
6
2005
Just thought I'd show off, and let everyone know that I've cranked up the geek factor down here in SoCal...
Apr
2
2005
Powered by Detroit is happening this coming weekend. If you haven't already made your reservations, I suggest you do so soon :). The cost is just $349 for the conference, which includes the 2 day conference pass, breakfast and lunch for both days, as well as a DVD of all of the presentations at the conference and $100 off of a Macromedia Certification Exam.
Mar
25
2005
Given my new obsession with CFFORMs, it was great to see that Mike Nimer has just launched a site called CFFORM.com with some awesome Flash and XML style CFFORM tricks and tips. You can submit your own modifications, or take what you need free of charge. I'll definitely be spending some time here as the site grows...
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
This is my first post to the blog using the Dvorak keyboard layout and so far it's pretty darn painful. My fingers are too familiar with their old home keys and they keep wanting to go back there. However I can already see the benefit of using this layout. I rarely have to take my fingers off of the home keys. So, now that I'm sweating from typing this short post, It's back to the typing tutor for me :).
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.
Mar
6
2005
I've been playing around with the XSL forms in Coldfusion MX 7 and ran into a bug yesterday. If I have a multiple select, then the XSL style sheets don't properly mark each selected value as such. Let's say I have this code:
Feb
10
2005
Well if you haven't heard already (since I'm a little slow these days), ColdFusion MX 7 is now out!
Feb
9
2005
I've been using Dell computers for ages, and have always been happy with the products and services they provide. I got a letter today that makes me even more confident in their ability to take care of their customers.
Feb
1
2005
Well so far so good... I've been signed up for the Free Mini Mac site for a week, and so far no spam :). I signed up with a throwaway account just in case, but hopefully I stay spam free. Still don't have enough people to get me a free Mac though :).
Jan
26
2005
Hi everyone. I just thought I should let you all know that I am indeed still alive. It's been a crazy couple of months. Here's a quick rundown of what's been going on in the life of Dan over the last few months: