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May 22, 2006

Adobe Developer Week

This is pretty coo by Adobe. Ed Sullivan, “overseer” of the Adobe user groups, sent an email and he stated a few years back they had a “Community Week”, or something similar in name, and this is that event revived, in a sense. Here is an excerpt from Adobe’s site.

“Join us to learn about the Adobe engagement platform, including Flex, and other Adobe technologies by attending Adobe Developer Week. This free, week-long event features live, online sessions presented by Adobe technology experts. See live demos and get your questions answered by the experts during interactive Q & A sessions.”

So when is it and who should attend?

“June 12-16, 2006 | ColdFusion App Developer, Community, Flash App Developer, Internet Application Architect, IS/IT Manager, Java App Developer, .NET/ASP App Developer, Web Application Developer”

You can read more and register here.

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May 2, 2006

Why Do We Have So Many Screwdrivers?

Cody passed me this article a few minutes ago and it is a pretty interesting read.

Check it out here.

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March 27, 2006

Is IE 7 Rendering really new?

Yes and no. In talking to the IE developers at Mix I found out an interesting fax. IE 7 in fact still uses IE 6 rendering. The only time it does not use it is when the doctype is set to strict. Interesting huh? They wanted things to be backwards compatable. That was an interesting take for me. I thought the entire rendering engine was rewritten to conform to standards. In a sense it was but IE 6 rendering is still very much so still present.

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February 3, 2006

IE PNG Hack

Yep, that's right. There is a way to get PNG support in IE before IE 7 is released. I'm going to check it out as soon as I get a chance. Cody showed me a site he did that uses it and it looks sweet!

Checkout Cody's blog for more info.

Ever try to use those wonderful transparent PNGs? Ever tear your hair out when after seeing how beautiful it looked in Firefox, Internet Explorer made an absolute mess of it? Then read on.

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January 25, 2006

Language Overload

Have you ever experienced language overload? I seemed to have it heavy tonight while coding. What is it? Oh...let me explain.

Language overload is doing this in ColdFusion:
ListGetAt(mylist, 0, "|")

Its language overload when you know it should be 1 instead of 0 but you do it because you have been coding in an ECMA language (AS, C#, JavaScript, etc) or similar.

That's a simple example/mistake but I found my self write ColdFusion code like this:

Hmm...that doesn't quite look right but my mind wouldn't fully convert to ColdFusion tonight. Maybe I should've starting writing in cfscript.

Have you multi-language developers ever experienced this?

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