using the right technology at the right time
Using some CSS voodoo, you can display a text link’s URL in parenthesis after the link text. This would be very useful for printer style sheets, where you can’t see where the links are pointing when the page is printed out.
Read on for more details and the code.
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.
We released ColdFusion on Wheels 0.9.4 on Tuesday. This project has been a dream come true. Although we’re still in beta, there is quite a bit of momentum, and I imagine that people will take a closer look at it after we go 1.0.
Read on for more of my thoughts of where we’ve gone—and where we’re going.
I’ve always thought Twitter a glorious waste of time. But I recently found out that much of the CFML community hangs out there.
So here’s my new Twitter handle: @cf_chrispeters.
I must admit that joining Twitter with the goal of connecting with other CFers makes it a much more rewarding experience. I’ve learned a few things already just from links that others have been posting. If you use ColdFusion, Railo, or OpenBD, then you should give it a shot.
Did any of these web development blog posts slip through the cracks? Or maybe you wanted to take another look at one later on? Now’s the time!
Click through to also see what happened on Glass Case, my sister internet marketing blog.
I’ve been mainly business since I’ve started this blog, so I figured that I could share some non-web-development-related stuff from time to time.
I’ll admit that I’ve somehow become an Apple fan boy over the years. One lesser-known thing about Apple’s products is how well their entertainment stuff integrates together. For a couple hundred bucks, you can turn your Mac or Windows PC into the cerebellum of music in your household.
Read on to find out what you need to set up a low-cost house-wide remote sound system and what it all does.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Smashing Magazine posted a comic called Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5. I’ve been wondering what’s been going on with the standards and what it’ll ultimately mean for me. And a comic addresses my questions and laziness quite nicely. I win!
At risk of infringing copyright, I’ll rape and paste it below.
Read on for the rest of the comic. This isn’t the whole thing.
You’ve seen it before: you get to a login screen, and the cursor automatically jumps to the username box so you can just start typing. It’s very convenient.
But developers seem to screw this up regularly. I’ve seen it implemented so poorly that it becomes highly unusable and opens potential security problems.
I’ll take some time to show you how I implemented this in jQuery and then encapsulated it for reuse within a partial in ColdFusion on Wheels.
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.
I’ll fulfill my promise by giving another example of how I would improve the Hello Database tutorial for ColdFusion on Wheels.
This time, I’ll talk about how we could factor out view logic so that the profile form can be used for both the add and edit actions. With all of this MVC goodness, we should be able to do some refactoring easily, shouldn’t we?
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.