Posts Tagged ‘web development’

“Does exactly what it says on the tin.”

I love it. All of our method and function names should do exactly the same.

Read on for more context and why Andy Bellenie is a genius.

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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.

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For the ColdFusion on Wheels API documentation, we chose to do something a little unconventional (but pretty cool). Using some extra CFC attributes and CFML‘s GetMetaData() function, we wrote a pretty cool documentation parser for ColdFusion on Wheels.

Read on for an example of what we did.

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I’ve become a fan lately of a small trend in breadcrumb design. Some sites are starting to put the page’s header (in <h1>) at the end of the list of breadcrumbs. It’s an interesting way to show how the site’s hierarchy leads up to the current page.

On Adobe’s site:

Read on for a couple more examples.

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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.

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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!

• Aug 14: Improving the tutorial: Object- and query-driven partials in ColdFusion on Wheels
• Aug 18: My first usage of jQuery
• Aug 20: Improving the tutorial: using the same view for multiple actions in ColdFusion on Wheels
• Aug 22: Designing navigation for web applications
• Aug 25: Wheels + jQuery partial for setting form focus
• Aug 27: XHTML 2/HTML 5 comic

Click through to also see what happened on Glass Case, my sister internet marketing blog.

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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.

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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.

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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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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?

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