Category Archives: Tools

Posts discussing the tools we use daily as web developers.

Air Apps on Lifehacker - freshAIRapps

May 13, 2008 – 12:04 pm

One of the sites I hit daily is Lifehacker.  Today I noticed a post about freshAIRapps a directory of
ratings and reviews of many new and new-to-AIR apps
It’s cool to see Air out in the wild and getting some good press!  Check it out at:  http://freshairapps.com/
Quick update:  Appears the site is hosed due to traffic  [...]

By Jim | Also posted in Code | Tagged | Comments (1)

John Resig on Accessibility, ARIA and Fire Vox

April 30, 2008 – 8:00 am

I’ve been using jQuery more and more at work but have been having to hold off some of the more advanced uses because of accessibility concerns. Working with the Government we are looking more and more at 508 and accessibility and right now AJAX is a bit of a gray area.
Today John Resig (author of [...]

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Two New Testing/Automation Tools

April 24, 2008 – 2:29 pm

I found both these over the weekend and they both look really interesting:
Cubic - from the same folks that make Selenium
CubicTest is a graphical Eclipse plug-in for writing Selenium and Watir tests. It makes web tests faster and easier to write, and provides abstractions to make tests more robust and reusable.
CoScripter - IBM(?)
CoScripter is [...]

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Speaking Of Surveys

April 20, 2008 – 10:30 am

The recent web development survey has wrapped up with some interesting results.  Eclipse barely edges out Dreamweaver - 25% vs. 21%.  Pretty graphs!

By Jim | Also posted in Code | Tagged | Comments (0)

CFML IDE - Initial Numbers

April 14, 2008 – 9:50 am

So the CFML IDE Survey has been up for a few days… some quick numbers:

The post on my blog had about 200 hits
Survey admin says: Total Number of Survey Results ~ 300

Hopefully there are more than 300 ColdFusion developers out there…
If you haven’t taken it yet - please consider taking a few moments [...]

By Jim | Also posted in CFEclipse, Code, Open-source | Tagged , | Comments (6)

Quickly Setup New Projects Using SVN

April 7, 2008 – 11:00 am

We have a standard directory structure for each of our projects:
PLAIN TEXT
CODE:

projectname

/docs

/testing

/build

/priv

/pub

Testing contains our Selenium scripts (and in the future - unit testing scripts). Build contains our Ant scripts.
At the office I'm in charge of setting up new SVN repositories and one of the things I've done to speed up [...]

By Jim | Also posted in Ant, Blog, Code | Tagged , | Comments (3)

The Savvy CMS - CFEclipse.org Makeover - Part I

April 4, 2008 – 8:12 am

When I originally decided to revamp the CFEclipse.org site I knew I wanted to use a CMS. I looked around and evaluated a few of the free versions but the available options were either too simple or overly complex. I was looking for something in the middle.
One of the blogs I frequently read [...]

By Jim | Also posted in CFEclipse, Code, ColdFusion | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Wacky Wiki

April 2, 2008 – 2:33 pm

OK. The wiki may be a bit wacky for the next few days. Awhile ago I switched from Dokuwiki to Mediawiki. Mainly just to try out Mediawiki and get familiar with how it worked.
It is very powerful - but it's a bit of a pain to update, and extensions seem [...]

By Jim | Also posted in Ant, Code | Tagged , | Comments (0)
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