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ISITE Design

By barneyb on January 13, 2005

ISITE Design
is a big-money web dev firm in Portland, OR. They recently
expanded to Boston, MA as well, judging by their web site.
However, what's interesting to me is that for a while they had a
reasonably nice all-Flash site. Definitely one of the better
Flash sites I'd run across. That's now gone in favor of an
XHTML-based one. They [...]

Posted in development

Whitespace Suppression

By barneyb on January 12, 2005

Christian Cantrell posted a blog entry about expanding CFML whitespace suppression by leveraging CFMX's J2EE underpinnings. There seems to be a fair amount of happiness that this solution was made known (especially such a simple one). Two things I see here:

people need to stop thinking about CFMX and a CF server and start [...]

Posted in cfml

Beans, Transfer Objects, and Other Mumbo Jumbo

By barneyb on January 6, 2005

There was a series of interesting threads on CFCDev today about
different types of objects, and how they play together to form a
complete OO system. Couple that with a pretty active week in the
CF blogosphere regarding objects, and I think it's pretty safe to say
that CF development is growing up. Definitely no longer just the
quick-fix dev [...]

Posted in cfml

I'm Back

By barneyb on January 4, 2005

After a gloriously long holiday break (nearly two full weeks), I'm
finally back to real life. I won't say that I've missed it, but
it is kind of nice to be back into a routine. And now, the
obligatory quick recap.
Aside from a botched trip to Victoria, BC (things are closed on New
Years Day, imagine that ;), the [...]

Posted in meta

ColdFusion for Christmas?

By barneyb on December 24, 2004

I got an interesting email from Tim Buntel (Macromedia's Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion) yesterday.
"We would like to hear more about your BlueDragon experience. If
you could write up a document detailing your experience, frustrations,
and the like, we could help you out with your request for a shiny new
license of ColdFusion MX 7 Standard."
So I [...]

Posted in personal

TinyMCE

By barneyb on December 22, 2004

With cross-platform inline HTML editors all the rage these days, I
though it appropriate to share my experiences with a couple of them
this evening. I use soEditor and HTMLArea
extensively in my professional work, and like them both. Neither
is perfect by any measure, but they get the job done, though soEditor's
IE-only stance is becoming more and more [...]

Posted in development

BlueDragon: Still Breathing Fire

By barneyb on December 19, 2004

BlueDragon continues to give me fits. CFEXECUTE (which I'm not sure – there is conflicting evidence – is supported on the Server edition) refuses to work correctly. No big deal, since launching a Process direct from the Runtime class is straightforward (I didn't need the IO streams, in this case). However, the [...]

Posted in bluedragon

iTerm Rules

By barneyb on December 16, 2004

I long ago discovered iTerm, a slick little Terminal replacement for OSX. Among other things, it lets you have tabbed windows, just like any decent browser, which is handy for managing the swarm of SSH and MySQL sessions I usually have open. What I just noticed today was that you can tear a [...]

Posted in osx

Architecting FB4.1

By barneyb on December 15, 2004

Architecting with Fusebox 4.1 is a very wide arena. There are lots of ways to do it, but I think I found one that is particularly well suited to the framework, especially when combined with CFCs for a backend. My presentation at the 2004 Fusebox Conference hinted at much of the principles, but [...]

Posted in fusebox

Whoops

By barneyb on December 13, 2004

So it wasn't quite perfect. Realized that I'd botched the new entry config slightly in that comments weren't enabled by default. But that's fixed now, so anyone who happened by in the middle of the night and wondered why the previous post couldn't be commented on, that's the reason. It's fixed now though.