http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au Web apps development on the go... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:44:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been using a lot of jquery lately, and the official jquery doco site seems to be up and down like a yo-yo. Very frustrating when all you want to find out is some syntax and keep moving. Initially I went in search of an entire downloadable version of the jquery ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/08/jquery-cheat-sheet/ Every developer needs a trusty text editor that does more than just Notepad - something that's lightweight, loads fast, has good searching features and some syntax highlighting. Eclipse is indispensible, but there are plenty of times I just can't be bothered firing it up - or if it's open, the ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/notepad-the-best-lightweight-cf-editor/ I only just stumbled on the Mango blogging engine via a post on fusiongrokker - it's great to see another CF powered blogging engine out there. I've played with BlogCFC in the past but didn't quite meet my requirements for various reasons. When I re-established this blog, I went with Wordpress ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/mango-blogging-more-choice-is-what-we-want/ Usually I don't unneccessarily link off to other blog entries that are syndicated on the same aggregator, but this post at Rabidgadfly regarding the use of LIKE and IN and CFQUERYPARAM is just too useful to pass up. I was just about to look into how to pass params LIKE and ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/cfqueryparam-tip/ So this is a code blog and every good with a lot of code needs a good code plugin. A friend put me onto a nice little plugin for WP called SyntaxHighlighter Plus - it leverages off a googlecode project that highlights for a whole swag of languages all in ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/coldfusion-syntax-highlighting-in-wordpress/ Ok I've installed Wordpress 2.6 that was just released today. For only a minor version number increment there are some pretty slick new features bundled in. Google Gears support is included and while it's not there to support offline blogging (yet?) it does speed up the admin by caching a lot ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/wordpress-26-rocks/ If you're anything like me, you're firing up remote desktop about a thousand times a day, and more often than not, two or three terminal windows to different servers. In our production environment we have 4 (actually 5) servers deployed - web1, web2, encoding, db and storage - and keeping track ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/are-you-a-remote-desktop-fiend/ Farcry has been going for quite a long time now. It's a huge credit Geoff and the guys at Daemon that they have not only maintained but continually improved upon the Farcry framework for so many years. Version 5 has just been released (I have been using Farcry for various projects ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/07/farcry-5-just-keeps-getting-better/ 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 ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/06/cs3-licensing-a-pleasant-surprise/ 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 ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/2008/06/subversion-pt1-version-control-just-keeps-getting-better/