CNet
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Looking to add a few new programming languages to your repertoire? CNet has 10 suggestions.
Web Development
IE7: Solid Browser or Ford Pinto?
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Read/Write Web explores question with Opera’s CTO Håkon Wium Lie.technorati tags:ie7
Version Control
Saturday, August 12, 2006
The development community is divided into two halves: the designers and the coders. I never know which one I am. Many may look at my designs and code and say that I'm neither. I would prefer (for my own self-confidence) to think that I'm both, although the two disciplines tend to sabotague each other. It's very difficult to design effectively after days of looking at source. It is equally difficult to build and maintain an application of any size when the design part of you shuns conformity and structure.
ColdFusion on MacTel Instructions
Friday, July 28, 2006
I found these instructions by Mark Andrachek to install ColdFusion on an Intel-based Macintosh via Ben Forta’s blog. I tried them originally with a fresh install of Apache 2 and it didn’t work very well, but I removed the Apache install and used OS X’s built-in Apache and it worked fantastic!! technorati tags:coldfusion, macintosh, intel, macbook, apache, jrun
Alternatives to Adobe for ColdFusion
Thursday, July 20, 2006
While Adobe develops and sells THE ColdFusionMX server, there are cheaper and even free alternatives. A post on the Inside Out Outside In blog details some of these. technorati tags:coldfusion, adobe, railo, bluedragon
Design Hunting
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Today I’m beginning the process of creating a new design for the LPS web site. I’m not sure at this point if it will be a dramatic change or just an update of the current design. The first step that I’m starting today is evaluating other web sites. It’s difficult to find well-designed K-12 sites, so I’m mostly visiting University and College sites. My link dumps this week will likley contain a number of sites that I thought had some good ideas or design.
LPS Workshop Information
Monday, June 26, 2006
15 to 20 brave folks will be joining me for the next two days for a sort of web development boot camp. We’ll be hitting all of the Web Development acronyms and will hopefully have a site to show for it all at the end of Wednesday. Participants can learn more on the workshop page.
Opera 9 Available
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Yesterday, I think, Opera (the company) pushed out the finished version of Opera (the browser) 9. If you haven’t tried or used Opera before, this is a pretty good time to try it out. Opera could probably be considered the original ‘standards’ browser. While IE and Netscape were battling over features and market share, this browser from Norway was steadily creating a browser that followed the rules. Opera has become a browser that tries to do everything, similar to the way that Mozilla suite (they call it seamonkey now?
Dreamweaver in Columbus
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Thanks to those of you who attended my Dreamweaver workshops this week in Columbus. I have updated all of the class notes with the resources I mentioned through the days and have provided downloadable project files on the page from the second day. You can find these pages by clicking on 'events' on the right side of this page. We covered a LOT of stuff and I'm sure that you probably feel overwhelmed.
Max 2006 Announced
Friday, June 9, 2006
Adobe - MAX 2006 has been announced. Max is the conference for anybody doing web development using Adobe (Macromedia) tools. There are tons of sessions covering ColdFusion, Flex, Flash and Dreamweaver along with other Adobe apps. It’s a fun time to meet other developers and sit shoulder-to-shoulder in sessions with people that work for big-time companies. This year it’s in Las Vegas at the Venetian - October 23rd through the 26th.
Troubleshooting Web Pages with Safari
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Here’s a great page describing methods of debugging web pages with Safari.
Fun Flash Site
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Freedom Interactive has a fun site that shows posterboard carriers walking through New York City trying to sell web sites.
Scheduling Content Removal
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Today I have started the first serious effort I can remember in the 8 years that I have been with Lincoln Public Schools to clean out all of the orphaned junk on the web site that has collected over that time. I have just completed one of the smaller sections of the site. I figure I removed over 70% of the files that were on the server in the five hours that it took me to go through it all.
O'Reilly Trademarks "Web 2.0"
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Dale Dougherty from O’Reilly created the term “Web 2.0” to describe the recent rebirth of web development that has brought us cleaner interfaces as well as AJAX-powered behaviors. As a part of this, O’Reilly has organized a couple of Web 2.0 conferences around the topic. Now, O’Reilly is trademarking the term “Web 2.0” and people are very angry about this. If this were a company like Microsoft, I would have no doubt that they had plans to either lock down the term in a way that nobody could use it, or they would popularize it in a self-centered way that would bring more attention to them.
Adobe on Del.icio.us
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Adobe has published a new link set up on delicious. They have product categories like After Effects, Acrobat and Dreamweaver, as well as content categories like Video and Design. They do not have ColdFusion up there right now, but they said that they are not done setting this up yet.
Target being sued for an inaccessible web site
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Sexton has joined the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) as a plaintiff in a lawsuit that charges Target with violating the federal Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act and Disabled Persons Act. The lawsuit, scheduled for a hearing next month at U.S. District Court in San Francisco, could have a broad impact because Target’s site is hardly the only one that could be accused of having access barriers, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
sIFR 3.0 moving along
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
An alpha version of sIFR 3.0 is available. sIFR is a package of javascripts, css and flash files that allow site designers to replace html text with flash text, allowing for text in any font that is crisply anti-aliased. Version 3 supports new flash features such as drop shadows. LPS uses sIFR 2 for many of it’s page titles.
Building Scalable Websites book (from creator of Flickr)
Monday, May 22, 2006
This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to millions of users. Topics include application architecture, development practices, technologies, Unicode, and general infrastructure work. Ideal for anyone ready to realize the cost and performance benefits available to web applications today. oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Building Scalable Web Sites
Local Paper Summarizes This Past School Year
Thursday, May 18, 2006
10 things about this school yearJournalStar.com technorati tags: LPS, Lincoln
Create Launchable Apps with Flash
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Adobe Reveals More Details on Apollo technorati tags: adobe, apollo, flash
Turn Your Pictures Into PDFs
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera ScanR can take mobile-phone (or other) photos and turn them into text-searchable PDFs. Have a whiteboard that you want to save? Snap a photo, email it to them and receive back a PDF. I’ll try this out and report back! technorati tags: ScanR, PDF
New Yahoo! Front Page Doesn't Support Browsers
Thursday, May 18, 2006
New Yahoo! Site Doesn't Support Safari [UPDATED] || The Mac Observer I'm know that they will have this all fixed before they go live, but while it doesn't surprise me that they don't support Safari, it still surprises me that they do not support Flock. If you use Flock, you sometimes get the feeling that the product is bankrolled by Yahoo!. technorati tags: yahoo, flock, safari
No CF on Java 5
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Making ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X use JVM 1.4.2 instead of JVM 1.5.0 - TalkingTree.com I didn’t realize that ColdFusion didn’t run on Java 5. I’m sure that I’ve read this before, but I had forgotten. Anyway, this page details how to tell CF to use 1.4.2 even if the default java for your OS X computer is 1.5 technorati tags: java, mac, osx, coldfusion
Digg It
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Small Biz 101: Digg is Your Marketing Secret Weapon - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) The way to get noticed on the web today is to get listed on Digg. If you can get enough people to “digg” your page, your status on the site will rise to a level that will bring unbelievable traffic to your site. technorati tags: digg
Spry - Podcast
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Scott Fegette: Podcast 02 - Jorge Taylor on the Spry Framework I havent' had a chance to listen to this yet, but plan to sometime today. It’s a podcast of an interview with someone involved with the Ajax Spry Framework at Adobe. A way to create AJAX functionality in Dreamweaver? technorati tags: ajax, spry
COMET - The Next AJAX
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Digital Web Magazine - News - Comet, the complement of AJAX AJAX allows a browser to, at any time, communicate with the server and deliver the results of that communication to the browser without the need for a page refresh. COMET promises the same use of existing technologies to allow the server to push information to the browser without the need for a browser request. The ability for web pages to both send and receive data, initiated by either the server or the client, without a browser refresh will really transform the deliverable experience.
Apollo to Free Flash Apps
Friday, May 12, 2006
Flash to jump beyond the browser | CNET News.com Adobe must be getting closer to letting this out. Kevin Lynch talked a little bit about “Apollo” at the MAX conference in October, but I don’t think that he demonstrated anything. I sure hope that this turns out better than Central. Nobody will use these apps if they are sluggish. technorati tags: Apollo, Adobe, Flash
IE and Standards: A Fair View
Friday, May 12, 2006
Vitamin Features » Will the Standards Battle Ever be Won? technorati tags: ie, standards, vitamin
Dreamweaver Developer Center
Thursday, May 11, 2006
The Dreamweaver Developer Center is a resourcet that I tell people about a lot, but always forget to continue checking myself. This morning I found there some great articles and tutorials on form styling with CSS, formating XML with XSL, and using a framework called SPRY to add interactive AJAX elements to web pages. I wish that there was an obvious news feed so that I could subscribe to this page…
Eric Meyer Interview
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Eric Meyer is a giant in the CSS world and this is a great interview with him about how he got into CSS and the business of web development. technorati tags: css, eric, meyer