After last week, I decided to put off picking a new frontend platform for my Semantic Web rubric project and focus a bit on the server backend. Since this is just a proof-of-concept project at this point I can afford to take some risks in choosing technologies. I’ve been following Read more »
Category Archives: Web Development
Synchronized Web development workflow
It’s been six years since I switched from HomeSite to Eclipse+CFEclipse as my primary ColdFusion development environment. At the time, my switch was primarily driven by my switch to Mac for development, but the desire for integrated support for version control (e.g. Subversion) directly within in the IDE helped with Read more »
Why many Microformats begin with ‘h’
I’ve been spending some quality time with several Microformats as part of my work for DealerPeak. We’ve been adding semantic attributes, including hCard, hProduct, and hListing, to the pages generated by the DealerPeak Automotive Dealership CRM/CMS system. During a recent redesign of the car listing page, I was adding hCard Read more »
FlexBuilder 3 for academia
Since FlexBuilder 3 was released last week, I decided to hunt around for the ‘free to academics’ offer and see if it applies to FlexBuilder 3. Here’s where it lives now: http://www.flexregistration.com/ Interesting things to note: It apparently does apply to staff too (woo!) You can request more than one Read more »
Heading to CodeMash ’08
I’m really looking forward to CodeMash. The slate of speakers and topics looks fantastic; It’s really nice to look at a conference schedule and see a lot of topics that are totally new to me. One thing I’m curious about is Scala. I’ve been working with a research group lately Read more »
Advice for jumping into Java Web Services?
So I’ve landed on a new project. We’ve been asked to port a well-studied scientific algorithm into a Web Service, hoping to link the calculated results into a networked client for visualization (likely Google Earth). Now, porting the algorithm (from MATLAB) should be relatively straightforward. What I’m unsure about is Read more »
Problems (and a Few Solutions) Installing Adobe CS3
So we got our media for Adobe Creative Suite 3 last week, and I’ve been fighting with the installs on various systems for the last few days. Some notes from the battlefield: That popping sound you heard was sudden obsolescence Adobe Premiere Pro and Soundbooth are only supported on multicore Read more »
Designing Web site navigation and information architecture?
Does anyone have any helpful Web sites or suggestions on good books that capture the state-of-the-art of Web site navigation? I’m working on a site with a demonstrably-unusable information architecture, but we can’t seem to agree on what we need to do to fix it.
Apollo, we have liftoff!
At last! Adobe Apollo, the new cross-platform runtime for building rich internet applications is now available on Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/ I’ve been reading and hearing about Apollo for what seems like a year… I’ll have to take some of my off-week between classes to give this a test drive by Read more »
Holy Xeons!
Wow… ColdFusion MX on the MacPro is fastfastfast. It took a while to get it set up since it isn’t technically supported, but wow. WOW I say. I skimped at least on one step: I didn’t recompile mod_jrun on this box. Since I’d gone through that process on the MacBook Read more »