http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au Web apps development on the go... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Right. Can somebody please explain to me why ColdFusion Builder isn't included in CS5 Web Production Premium, whereas Flash Builder 4 is???? C'mon Adobe that makes no sense. There's no way I'm spending that much money on CS5 *and* not get my primary development tool (CF Builder) included in the bundle. Very, very ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/index.php/2010/04/12/cfbuilder-gets-no-love-in-cs5/ If you're like me, you find yourself regularly having to take a quick screen grab of a page on your website. Often, the page much longer than you can easily grab with swift mash of the "PrtScn" button. So you're left to try and stitch together a few different screen ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/index.php/2009/10/01/quick-full-page-browser-screen-grabs-screengrab/ This is a pretty amusing blog post, that is entirely true, but can be applied to virtually any software UI, whether browser based or not desktop based... (especially seeing as browser based web apps are becoming more and more rich UI like) http://inessential.com/2009/07/30/anatomy_of_a_feature Anyway thought it was a funny read on why ... http://blog.neuralmotion.com.au/index.php/2009/08/19/anatomy-of-a-feature/ 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/index.php/2008/08/21/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/index.php/2008/07/24/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/index.php/2008/07/24/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/index.php/2008/07/23/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/index.php/2008/07/15/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/index.php/2008/07/15/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/index.php/2008/07/08/are-you-a-remote-desktop-fiend/