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.
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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.
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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 ;)
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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.
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I just upgraded the old server to ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise... yum...
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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.
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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 :).
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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...
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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.
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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.
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