Archives - September 2009
LoI - Sep. 24, 2009
Vanadium JS library - a declarative client side validation toolkit Squiggly - Adobe releases preview of spellchecking engine for Flex/AIS apps http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/squiggly/ Free AJAX Content Delivery Network from Microsoft LessCSS for CF Developers - Barney Boisvert posted an article on using the LessCSS package inside a CF application http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2009/09/08/lesscss-for-cfml-developers/ LessCSS - a Ruby extension to CSS How To Recover data From A Corrupt Memory Card or USB Drive
WYMeditor - web-based XHTML editor
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/24/10-useful-usability-findings-and-guidelines/
Fun Shtuff
Developers - the music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
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LoI - Sep. 17, 2009
Follow ColdFusion and Flex bloggers on twitter with one click - Brian Rinaldi put together a single click button that allows you to follow ColdFusion and Flex bloggers by making use of TweepML TweepML - XML format for sharing groups on Twitter How to access Gmail when it is down http://lifehacker.com/5354314/how-to-access-gmail-when-its-down 10 ways to find people on Twitter http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/twitter-people/ Tornado open source web server - Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools written in Python that power FriendFeed. Twisted - an open source event-driven networking engine written in Python http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ OOCSS - Object Oriented CSS http://wiki.github.com/stubbornella/oocss FluidHTML - from their site: a text-based markup language (like HTML) that lets you dynamically generate Flash content. OpenLaszlo - before Flex there was Laszlo Curl - may or may not have come before Laszlo http://developers.curl.com/index.jspa 10 Quick Tips for an Easier CSS Life http://www.search-this.com/2007/03/26/10-quick-tips-for-an-easier-css-life/ Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 - tool for validating your HTML and CSS to determine if Outllok is going to mangle the emails your app sends http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx Fun Shtuff September 19 is Talk Like A Pirate Day
via - http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1633-Object-Oriented-CSS-OOCSS-By-Nicole-Sullivan.htm
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LoI - Sep. 10, 2009
Defense Info Agency Open-Sources its Web Apps http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219401044 HTML5 specification for Content Authors http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/ Adobe TV launches new website http://tv.adobe.com/ @HelloApp - using Twitter to connect with other people at conferences Protecting ColdFusion Apps from common attacks - not extensive but a few good tips to keep in mind http://www.rachaelandtom.info/content/protecting-coldfusion-applications-common-attacks Aviary - free, online suite of image creation tools including color picker, vector graphics, image manipulation, and custom filters. RocketDock - for all those Windows users who really wished they had a Mac, this app lets you stick all your desktop icons in an easy to use dock Fun Shtuff Lobsters teaching robots - now the corpse eating robots will be able to navigate their way to the human corpses while lying to the other robots about where all the grub is http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327236.500-lobsters-teach-robots-magnetic-mapping-trick.html And they can look more like Humans while doing it http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327223.900-robot-with-bones-moves-like-you-do.html What is airspeed velocity of an unladen ...pigeon? A carrier pigeon flies a datacard between South African ISP offices faster than the ISP can transfer the data over the Internet. Reality or urban legend? Either way, its funny. http://mpwoodward.posterous.com/pigeon-turns-out-to-be-faster-than-s-african
via - http://www.coldfusioning.com/index.cfm/2009/9/9/Adobe-TV-New-Website-Launched
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LoI - Sep. 03, 2009
BlazeMonster - From the site: This application helps developers to generate Flex code to consume BlazeDS/LCDS Remoting services and also generate configuration file to expose Java classes as Remoting services. Developers can view response from a Remoting service, generate Flex code to invoke a Remoting service and also generate AS3 VO code for the Java classes. http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com/blazemonster/ Ext Accordion Example - a cool javascript accordion function http://aariadne.com/accordion/accordion.html 121 Blackberry Tips - more tips for Blackberry users than you can shake a stick at http://www.insidecrm.com/features/121-blackberry-tips-021408/ QuickFlip 2 - another cool javascript based effect http://jonraasch.com/blog/quickflip-2-jquery-plugin 35 Excellent Wireframing Resources - good list of wireframing resources http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/01/35-excellent-wireframing-resources/ A look at the new Opera 10 browser http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/01/opera-10-released-its-turbo-is-fully-functional/ An Object Database for ColdFusion http://cfruss.blogspot.com/2009/08/object-database-for-coldfusion.html Redesigning drop down selects with CSS and jQuery http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/07/28/reinventing-drop-down-with-css-jquery.aspx Adaptable views - Adaptable view is a user interface design pattern which you can use to allow users to manually change visual appearance of content in order to fit their needs. http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2009/07/07/Adaptable-view.aspx Flex PMD released - FlexPMD is a tool that helps to improve code quality by auditing any AS3/Flex source directory and detecting common bad practices http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexpmd/FlexPMD Screenr - create instant screencasts for Twitter http://screenr.com/ CFM Zen Garden - the CSS Zen Garden idea applied to ColdFusion jQuery and Javascript Coding: Examples and best practices - passed along by Alison Hall http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/16/jquery-examples-and-best-practices/ Fun Shtuff 100 great workout songs http://jackingaround.com/100-great-workout-songs/ Boxee - a home DVR software package MisterHouse - home automation software http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/ Best Internet form ever http://www.central-uk.com/central-uk/form.htm Moonbell - transforms the moon's topography into sound http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/selene_sok/index_en.html Here Comes Another Bubble - a 'must-see' video (and properly 508 captioned too!)
via - http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/8/27/Using-BlazeDS-Check-Out-BlazeMonster
via - http://www.miuaiga.com/index.cfm/2009/8/27/121-Blackberry-Tips--some-good-ones-too
via - http://forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/9/1/FlexPMD-Now-On-Adobe-Labs
via - http://www.usefultools.com/2009/08/create-screencasts-for-twitter/
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