After being here for well over 4 years I have finaly been noticed. I had done some Ajax research and I wanted it in a place that I could get to it where ever I was. So I placed it up on my website here. To my amazement it has been noticed.
It all started with Leland Scott including me in the list of sites he used in his research. Then moved on to otherauthors talking about his article. My view on this is that it is interesting where Web 2.0 is going. I say that it is what terminals were ment to be. With the ability to truely leveradge the modern design of applications today on a distributed network. No longer will you have to buy a whole sweet of to run on all the computers in your office. You will now be able to purchase access to them on a monthly basis or per use OR just a server to hook up to your network with the web application you want on it. The one Web2.0/Ajax application that has captured the number one spot my most used website list is GMAIL. The prime example that always comes to mind when thinking on this subject. It’s nothing special. The application is not earth sharttering but it works perfectly and I use it every day.
So thank you all and I hope that what I have made to help me has helped you.
In thinking OOP these days and going back and forth with PHP and ColdFusion and Web Design I ran across Chris J. Davis’s tutorial about this very subject. I found it easy to follow with a few insights into OOP in PHP to boot. But since I am a CF guy all of that can easily be translated to CF with no problem. I might take a crack at it.
edit: updated the link tot he article I talked about.
This is a topic that I really have to bone up on. I have shied away from this subject too often. Kevin McCabe mentioned it on his blog and I ran with it. Both articles that he points out are great and I learned a bunch. Writing a functional spec is something that I can talk about at length but need to actually do.
<rant> OK this pisses me off. people start a blog and say not a single thing about who the heck they are! I had to do a WHOIS to get Kevin’s name. hehe man please please at least make a simple pagelet and put some basic info about yourself in it with at least your name. </rant>
Subversion (SVN) is the only versioning system that I use in my development toolbox. I also am a mac user (home and work). So while reading the comments on Raymond Camden’sblog entry about source control I see that at least one wayward Mac user need some direction with SVN.
Very easy to impliment and use. I did three things, though for most only the first two need to be done. I downloaded/installed SVN. I installed Subeclipse and I got it all working with Apache so I could access the repository via Webdav.
Download the Subversion package that Metissian put to gether. You don’t need to do any compiling it just installs and works. BOO-YAH!
Then head over to Subclipse and install it. very easy. The directions they give make it very easy on you. Oh YEAH!
Ok Done for those of you that are happy with getting it installed and using it with Eclipse.
I went an extra step and installed Fink on my machine so that I could get a version of Apache with the mod_dav_svn.so module installed. Well I used fink to install this package: libapache2-mod-svn. Once you do (warning you need a good amount of time to get this done) you need to edit the /sw/etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to have this set up:
The “SVNParentPath” option can be switched with “SVNPath” if you will only have one repository. Me? I have a bunch. If you have any questions comment away I’d be glad to tell you more.
The title of this entry says it all. For me to go back to Dreamweaver (DW) after so many years of “Homesite/CF Studio” and then this past year with CFEclipse, would be a big step backwards as far as my tool suite goes. Yes I am very familiar with DW, but it cannot stand up against what Eclipse is offering me. The biggest difference being cost ($399 for DW, dont even mention the studio … $999 anyone?, and $0 for CFEclipse). Please don’t mention support. How many times have you needed to call in for support of DW or any of the studio apps? Yes they are good products for designers but taking a WYSIWYG design app and repurposing it for a coding platform has always felt wrong for me and many others. Hence why most people used CFStudio and Homesite for so long after it was abandoned by Macromedia.
So here is my respose to Tom Lane and his comment that were posted on Damon Cooper’s Blog.
“Please! of course you would be saying that you love DW. You worked on the darn thing! how long has it been since you’ve had to really use a good IDE to code with? You guys have a long way to go to offer the suite of tools that Eclipse has right now. Let me also point out that Macromedia is now putting it support behind CFEclipse.”
here is a list of things that I use Eclipse for:
XML editing
CSS coding
HTML coding
CFML coding
PHP coding
DB management and SQL coding
Version Control Management (SVN mostly but as you might know CVS too)
Well again I am drawn to what Ray has done for the community. He took apart the debugging template for for CFMX7 (as is obvious by this little snippet “cfusionmx7\wwwroot\web-inf\debug”) and created on much more to his liking and to mine . He talks about lookign for a more of a summary instead of a detailed “method call” after “method call” type report.
This gives me some ideas that I want to impliment for myself.
Ray talked about being asked to include images in the RSS feed available through the BlogCFC application. Interesting that it is a Yahoo included functionality in a RSS feed. I have in the passed included images in the exerpted that is included in a RSS entry but I have never included a peice of media in the feed itself. Is this option needed… no but we all like our toys don’t we?
If you want to read more of what Ray said hop on over.
What does this mean? Well I have used it and it is a IM client for the browser. Like AIM and Adium. You can open a browser and have access to a buddy list and chat windows. All created through javascript. It really is interesting how javascript has evolved over the last couple of years and the things that you are capable of now.
This is exciting for me. I ran accross Steve Gustafson’s post about a CF gatway that he created called mxnabot. You should check it out. it is interesting for me because I want to offer this type of innovation in my office.
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