CFInternals

Dreamweaver CS3 Rewrites Code!

2008-03-02T16:05:56-07:00

Yes, you read it correctly, Dreamweaver CS3 is rewriting my code. I'll go to save a file and upload it to my web site, only to get strange ColdFusion errors about unbalanced tags. I finally determined that if I close...

Load-Balancing, High-Availability, and Sessions

2007-12-26T00:05:46-07:00

Mike Brunt just posted the latest in a series of articles about high-availability web site architecture, with the conclusion that "the most effective Load Balancing in a Cluster is Round-Robin with Sticky-Sessions, if it is necessary to preserve state in...

Answering Objections to Rich Internet Applications (Flash)

2007-12-24T15:55:54-07:00

Anthony Franco has a nice article pointing out common objections to building Flash applications and the rebuttals one might use in answering them. Some of which—unfortunately—I found to be unconvincing. For example, the ultimate answers to several of the issues...

A Spaces Workflow in Leopard

2007-11-08T06:46:14-07:00

The iSights blog has a nice article on using OS X Leopard's Spaces feature in an development environment. While the article focuses on Spaces, the same concepts could be used in any environment that supports multiple virtual desktops. Fundamentally, the...

How to install ColdFusion 8 on Leopard (OSX)

2007-10-30T01:44:08-06:00

The guys over at daemonite have written detailed instructions for those of you who absolutely have to have ColdFusion 8 running directly under OS X Leopard. Unlike the instructions posted earlier by Mark Drew (which apparently have worked for some...

ColdFusion / Leopard Compatibility Issues

2007-10-27T14:17:08-06:00

Reports are coming in that ColdFusion 8 can't communicate with the latest version of Apache on Leopard. No fix or word from Adobe as to if or when a hotfix might be available. Worse, it appears that ADC (Apple Developer...

Contact Forms and Web Site Usability

2007-10-20T04:29:13-06:00

MaoStudios just posted a good entry on contact forms and web site usability, in which they advocate using web-based contact forms as opposed to email links. While I agree with the approach, and with their comments, there's one more thing...

Multiple Layout Specifications in CS3

2007-10-12T01:29:39-06:00

SitePoint just released an article discussing the multiple layout specifications that the W3C is recommending that web browser vendors implement. My position? The W3C is nuts. It's obvious if you attempt to read the specifications that the committees involved are...

A new direction for ColdFusion?

2007-10-08T15:48:23-06:00

Ryan Stewart comes back from MAX with an article discussing ColdFusion's future. In particular, he talks about how ColdFusion now falls under the Platform Business Unit, which puts it in the same organizational unit at Adobe as Flex, Flash Player...

Mobile Web Design

2007-09-06T11:18:25-06:00

Cameron Moll has a great little ebook available on Mobile Web Design, a web standards approach for delivering content beyond the desktop. This announcement comes right on the heels of Apple introducing the new iPod Touch, a video iPod styled...

Model-Glue, Events... and Global Variables???

2007-08-29T12:13:14-06:00

So there I was, sitting back and reading Doug Boude's recent post on The Model-Glue Event Lifecycle in Layman's Terms. Good article, I thought. Nice descriptions. Then one paragraph jumped out at me and I had a sudden realization: OMG,...

The good, the bad, and the different - iPhone edition

2007-08-22T15:10:12-06:00

Aaron over on WebStandards.org is advocating that web sites NOT design specifically for the iPhone, but for all mobile devices. While cogent, I think his arguments are missing a critical element. First, here's the link to his article: The good,...

iPhone Development Resources

2007-08-13T12:56:35-06:00

Apple has added some good iPhone development resources to their site, including a great guide to Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone. It includes recommendations on style sheets, interface interactions, form sizing and layouts, supported media types, and a...

Session Facades

2007-08-04T15:20:55-06:00

Brian Kotek recently wrote on the fusebox5 list a short discussion on using session facades. In short you're making a component to encapsulate gets and sets to the session structure. Why do this? Well, it turns out that there are...

"Limited" Features in ColdFusion 8

2007-08-03T00:36:15-06:00

The ColdFusion product manager, Jason Delmore, dropped by and left a comment on "Adobe Wants You To Buy ColdFusion 8 Enterprise". In it, he points me to the more informative ColdFusion Product Matrix (PDF), and explains that many of the...