I must admit to having been excited at the prospect of the Pet Market
frameworks project when Simon proposed it to us at the Fusebox & Frameworks
Conference in September. I once tried to do something similar by creating a
small blog application using the three popular frameworks that I was aware of
at the time (Fusebox 3-4 and Mach-II) and the onTap framework.
Unfortunately I did all the work myself and didn't have a great venue like
the ColdFusion Developer's Journal to publish the results. In the end I think
my efforts at a useful comparison of frameworks fell short of what I'd ... (more)
Using JDBC metadata, it is now possible to analyze databases and automate
database tasks with ColdFusion MX in ways that were problematic or at best
difficult in the past. Although Java can be rather intimidating, you don't
need to be a Java expert (or a database expert) to use these tools.
"Metadata" is all the information about how your data is stored (such as
table names, column names,... (more)
In a book entitled Finite and Infinite Games in 1986, James P. Carse wrote
"Finite players play within the rules, infinite players play with the rules."
We play finite games every day, from checkers and chess to Yatzee and
Monopoly. Finite games have a familiar pattern: a beginning, a middle, and an
end; a winner and a loser.
A finite game is easy to play because it has a limited set of f... (more)
I don't like browser-based WYSIWYG editors. There are a reasonably large
number of them and several of the recent versions are even
cross-browser-compatible with Mozilla and even some less popular browsers
(although Safari continues to be problematic).
The technical issues surrounding the implementation of WYSIWYG editors aren't
the reason I don't like them, in spite of continuing problem... (more)