Topic archive for
November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Yahoo is upgrading the Yahoo Widgets platform to be compatible with Flash and HTML widget development.
“Flash opens the door to all sorts of rich experiences” said Yahoo director of product management Scott Derringer.
Version 4.5 was announced yesterday and supports actionscript as well as Flex. eWeek reports:
Other new features from Yahoo for developers include the ability [...]
By: Chris Crum in Action Script, Flash, Java, W3C
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Today we are going to create a Glossy Web 2.0 Navigation Bar in Adobe Photoshop. The final result can be seen below:
in Design, Navigation, Photoshop
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a set of website buttons like the one shown below.
in Buttons, Design, Navigation, Photoshop
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Hello all today we are going to make a Icy text effect in adobe photoshop:
in Design, Photoshop, Text Effect
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Here is a mystery for folks. I’ve updated my parsing engine for coldfusionbloggers.org.
I’m using CFHTTP now so I can check Etag type stuff. I take the result text and save it to a file to be parsed by CFFEED.
But before I do that I check to ensure it’s valid XML. Here is where it [...]
By: Raymond Camden in Programming, Web Development, XML
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
A few days ago I blogged about a code review I was doing for another client. Yesterday I found another interesting bug in their code. (It is always easier to find bugs in other people’s code.)
By: Raymond Camden in Programming, Web Development, XML
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
There are a few ways of persisting XML to a file, each with their pros and cons, that programmers may want to consider.
Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr., of O’Reilly Media, penned a post on XML persistence and ways to accomplish it. “You can do all sorts of interesting things with XML, but if you can’t persist [...]
By: David Utter in Programming, Web Development, XML
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Not many people know that ColdFusion ships with a HTTP spider that integrates with Verity. Unfortunately, this spider will only work with localhost as a server.
This means if you want to spider multiple sites, you can’t. Well, not without playing with your host headers. (More information on the Verity Spider and ColdFusion may be found [...]
By: Raymond Camden in Programming, Web Development, XML
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
When is the last time you stopped to think about the health of your feed?
Maybe it’s time to head over to the Feed Validator and ensure it’s in peek performance.
By: Thomas McMahon in Programming, Web Development, XML
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
I’ve blogged before about how xmlFormat() is a bit buggy.
While it will remove most characters, including “high ascii” characters in the range of 128-255, it will gleefully ignore other high ascii characters, for example, character 8220 which is the funky Microsoft Word quote.
Unfortunately it looks like the same code used for xmlFormat is used to [...]
By: Raymond Camden in Programming, Web Development, XML