High Performance Web Sites by O'Reilly

Posted At : Mar 27, 2010 1:16 AM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: Web , Books

Last week I have finished reading High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders and published by O'Reilly. I've been reading this book for the last two weeks and have learned many things on about how to improve the performance of websites and its response time to the users.

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ColdFusion Builder is Free for Education

Posted At : Mar 22, 2010 3:23 AM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: CF Builder , Adobe , Web

ColdFusion Builder is also joins the Family of Free RIA Tools from Adobe. After the release of ColdFusion Builder 1.0 version adobe makes it's free for Education purposes. More details can be available at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/cfbuilder/. ColdFusion Builder Rocks!

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Adding Highslide JS to BlogCFC

Posted At : Jan 07, 2010 6:57 PM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: ColdFusion , Web , BlogCFC

This post is to show how simply we can add Highslide JS to your blogCFC blog in a 4 simple steps. Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript image, media and gallery viewer library and its free only for Non-commercial use more details are at Highslide site read it before you start using in your blog. Highslide will be very useful in placing full size images at your blog without worrying about your blog layout size or width. Here are the steps on how we can include Highslide to blogCFC blog.

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ColdFusion Builder: New CFM and CFC File Settings

Posted At : Dec 18, 2009 11:03 AM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: ColdFusion , CF Builder , Web

ColdFusion Builder provides a new option for us to set default contents in our newly created CFM and CFC files. Like code snippets this features will be helpful to place some standard code that we normally used in the CFM files like comment code block or HTML code blocks.

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Preview of Adobe BrowserLab available at Adobe Labs

Posted At : Jun 03, 2009 2:25 AM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: Adobe , Utilities , Web

Adobe BrowserLab a hosted service from Adobe hits Labs today which helps developers and designers for performing cross-browser testing of their web pages and sites.

Adobe BrowerLab: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/browserlab/
BrowserLab Extension for Dreamweaver CS4: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/browserlab.html

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Creating Windows in HTML and JavaScript AIR Applications

Posted At : Jun 01, 2009 9:25 AM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: Learning , AIR , Web

Adobe AIR is such a great technology from Adobe for developers who wish to use their existing web development knowledge to create Desktop application. If you would like to learn more on using jQuery with AIR please do keep an eye on Andy Mathews and Jason Dean blogs.

In my previous post about AIR for Web Developers where I have explained about Installing AIR SDK and creating, testing and running your AIR Application using command prompt in Windows OS and for using Aptana with AIR follow this blog post by Andy Mathews. So now let's starts with a simple example of creating windows in AIR Application. Apart from the initial main window, we can also creates other windows in HTML based AIR application. We can create two types of window and they are called as standard HTML windows which look similar as windows in web browsers and Native windows which look similar to the windows of native Operating system (Windows, Mac, or Linux).

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Eclipse Plugins for ColdFusion

Posted At : Mar 29, 2009 10:58 AM Posted By : Akbarsait
Categories: ColdFusion , Web , CFEclipse

I have been using Eclipse for ColdFusion development both at my home and work with the CFEclipse plugin and I'm wondering what other developers in the ColdFusion community are using along with CFEclipse plugin for to make our daily job easy and more productive. These are the plugins I'm using along with CFEclipse so please share your plugins for ColdFusion development.

1. CFEclipse ‐ The core for the ColdFusion Development with Eclipse.

2. CF 8 Extensions for Eclipse ‐ This includes Interactive environment for debugging with ColdFusion server, RDS Data view, Log Viewer, ColdFusion Ajax and Flex Wizards.

3. Subclipse ‐ Plugin for Subversion version control system.

4. SnipEx Servers ‐ SnipEx servers are really helpful for to have a handy code snippets for development. I'm using the snippets of CFLib.org by Ray Camden and CFSnippets.org by Todd Sharp both these snippet are very useful.

5. Amateras ‐ Plugin for HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript with code completion, code outline and code validations. Contents assist for HTML and HTML code preview with source and preview tab feature in Eclipse IDE. Amateras also includes wizards for adding JavaScript libraries, HTML and XML files.

6. XmlBuddy ‐ Plugin for validating XML documents and XML Schemas.

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