using the right technology at the right time
This morning, I set up a GitHub account so that I could have some public repositories for my ColdFusion on Wheels plugins. Feel free to follow me and watch my repositories as I post them up. (Gotta learn how to do that first though!)
Read on for a summary of how I installed my local copy of Git on Snow Leopard.
Over the weekend, I created a couple simple feed aggregators on the ColdFusion on Wheels Community page. I saved major time by using a mashup of Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, FeedBurner, and the <cffeed> tag in CFML. This was far easier than creating my own feed aggregator by hand.
If you’ve been curious about any of these tools, I highly recommend reading this post.
Thanks to Microsoft’s SuperPreview, I am able to test my websites in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8, all from one copy of Windows.
Read on to see a screenshot of the tool and how it has helped me out thus far.
Google Wave let brings all forms of communication together into a central place. Photo sharing, group discussions, IMs, email, blog posts and comments, tweets, Facebook, and so much more. Google has really set up a field of dreams with this one. And it’s all open, open source, federated. I can’t see why this isn’t going [...]
I’ve been on a Getting Things Done kick lately and have taken a liking to OmniFocus for managing my projects. They have an iPhone version that can sync with your desktop copy through a WebDAV server (amongst other options like Bonjour and MobileMe). Guess what. I had trouble setting up WebDAV on CentOS. But I [...]
Ever since I shelled out money for CS3 and then the upgrade to CS4, I’ve been looking for more opportunities to use it. So I figured that I’d give Dreamweaver CS4 a shot as my ColdFusion development environment for a month or so. The verdict: don’t. Technorati Tags: adobe, chris peters, ColdFusion, crap, cs4, dreamweaver, [...]
I stumbled upon a web-based browser testing application called Browsershots. Although you aren’t able to test things like JavaScript behavior, at least you can see what your web pages look like in different browsers. Most notably, you can run tests on quite a few OS/browser combinations. You can also test with different parameters like Flash, [...]
If you’re expecting content in your design but it’s not your job to write it, a common practice is to fill in the space with gibberish Latin. If you try to write your own content as a placeholder, your client will start to critique the content instead of worrying about the design. Even if you [...]
If you’re a Mac lover like me, you often get frustrated with not being able to test interfaces in Internet Explorer. But now the pain ends. ies4osx installs the Windows versions of Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, and 7.0 on your Intel-based Mac. While it’s certainly not perfect, it’s better than having to fire up [...]
I agree with my colleague Eric Myers’s sentiments that The Dip is basically a 70-page blog post by Seth Godin. That aside, I see this book as being useful for someone who wants or needs change (“someone” can equal “an organization”). The book forces you to question which pursuits you should continue. Godin also forces [...]
About MeI'm Chris Peters, and I'm a lover of web design and development. I'm based in Columbus, Ohio. Follow me as I have successes and struggles in this fast-moving technology environment.
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