Posts About Administrivia

Full CFScript CFCs aren’t yet where they need to be

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

A few months ago, I blogged about my excitement about the role that full script CFCs could have in an MVC stack, particularly with ColdFusion on Wheels. In my excitement to try out the new feature, I had spent much of a Saturday manually converting all of my components into CFScript components in my portal project called Administrivia.

Unfortunately, the CFScript part of ColdFusion isn’t quite where it needs to be yet. Read on to find out why.

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Designing navigation for web applications

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

As I’ve been working on an uber portal application, I’ve run into a major information architecture problem. My design wasn’t allowing enough space for navigation options.

Read on for sketches and concepts that I used to solve the problem. I wanted to use standard concepts that wouldn’t be confusing to the user. I think I accomplished that.

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