CS3 licensing - a pleasant surprise

To be blunt, for the honest, hardworking developer, Adobe’s CS3 licenses are expensive.
Sure you get an amazing toolkit of applications in any of the CS3 packages you choose (be it Web/Design, Premium or Standard), but the price of entry to the CS3 world is prohibitive to say the least.
Having been developing using the Allaire Macromedia [...]

Subversion Part 1: Version control just keeps getting better

I was recently tasked with the job of speccing a new development server that will soon be ordered and built by me. But in the interim, a mirror of the development server had to be setup on my laptop and act as a proving ground for how the new development server would be setup.
The company [...]

Icewhole.com - social networking for the film industry

Perhaps this is a little bit of blatant promotion, but I am working on a very exciting project at the moment that takes social networking to the film industry - Icewhole.com
It’s an entirely ColdFusion powered site with an MSSQL backend and On2 Flash encoding engine powering the film and music video sections of the site. [...]

Firefox extensions - the essentials for any CF developer

Since I discovered ColdFire and apparently I was late to the party, I thought I might detail the small number of extensions I rely on every day. They were the first things that got installed once I setup my dev environment on my new laptop and I regard them as absolutely indispensible for an CF [...]

Coldfire - revelation!

I’m probably late to the party, but I only just discovered ColdFire - an addon for the indispensible Firebug Firefox extension.
I already find Firebug a must for any web developer. When I don’t have it available to me, I feel like I am blind trying to find my way around the maze of CSS box [...]

Welcome to On the Bubble

After a hiatus, I’m back blogging about tech stuff. I already blog about personal stuff elsewhere since I’ve left Aus for the UK, but I’d prefer to keep the two seperate, so this one has been revived!
The combination of new things I’ve been stumbling across dev wise since coming over to the UK and a [...]