To make it cooler plug in an address that has good coverage in Google Maps. I had originally plugged in the address of the house where I grew up, but it did not do so well.

-R

1. I wish that I could set up a project, give it a URL, and then hit the files in the preview browsers. I don’t like that I have to configure a server. Because of our server setup, this is not convenient. I even went through the trouble of setting one up, but CF Builder doesn’t recognize it when I try to add it to the project, which is odd since it knows it is there and running.
2. I wish I could Find/Replace in the file system, like I can in Dreamweaver. CF Builder only provides Find and Replace functionality within a file.

I know that I am just getting started and I need to give it some time.

I think they might also be doing some browser sniffing, because it looked better in Chrome than in IE – and not just the normal stuff. It looked like different styles were being applied.

It is not very often that a web site like ESPN’s will drive traffic to another web site. It is working, at least for me. I am on ESPN.com a lot more now than cbssports.com.

The conference started on Monday, with registration, demos, eating, drinking, and networking. This was supposed to be on the beach, but it was ‘cold’, windy, and raining so it was inside. I arrived a little late and made it just in time to register and hang out for a while.

The real deal started Tuesday, which was a day full of speakers. Overall it was a great speaker line-up with a good mix or marketing, motivation, and technical topics.

On Wednesday I participated in two workshops. The first workshop focused on Facebook Connect, how to use it in an application, and how not to use it. It was led by a former Facebook employee so there was a lot of useful information given out.

The second workshop I went to covered the basics and not so basics of jQuery. I have been using jQuery for a little while now, so the actual content wasn’t that useful for me. The session was led by John Resig, who created jQuery and still leads the group that develops it. It was amazing to see how well he used it and learn some of the techniques he used. I walked out feeling like I needed to rewrite everything I have ever written in in jQuery. John also used a really cool slide deck, which was actually just a big web page that he manipulated using jQuery. This setup allowed him to demonstrate the features without having to flip between the browser and powerpoint.

When I wasn’t at the conference I had a great time in Miami Beach, meeting a lot of interesting people. It is always inspiring and humbling to hear about some of the cool things that people are doing on the web.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for prompts. I will be slowly building my database over the next few months and new ideas are always welcome.

I fixed the issue by setting ‘animated:false’ when I called the accordion. I actually used cgi.http_user_agent to sniff out the browser and if it is IE 6 I call the file with the animation disabled. Otherwise I call the original file.