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I've been meaning to blog this for a couple of weeks now... Two very popular speakers in the web design/development arena, especially among the Dreamweaver community, Joe Marini and Molly Holzschlag have recently come out with training titles at lynda.com. Joe was one of the original Dreamweaver product engineers and has been an inspiration to many extension developers, myself included. Molly is widely recognized web standards advocate and author.
There are a few free sample movies in each title...Enjoy!
XML Essential Training
with: Joe Marini
CSS for Designers
with: Andy Clarke and Molly E. Holzschlag
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Macromedia, err I mean Adobe, has released Flex 2! It just so happens that lynda.com released Flex 2 Essential Training yesterday and in Chapter 1 there's a free 9 minute movie that answers the question, "What is Flex?". You'll also find a few other free movies in chapter 1, Getting Started.
Enjoy!
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If you've been reading JD's coverage of the MIX06 event in Las Vegas, you now know that I have "joined lynda.com" and have been here at the Venetian for the conference.
It's true; I am now employed by lynda.com and I've been meaning to blog about it but wasn't quite ready to do so. I had the feeling that by being here at this event it would come out, and sure enough it did... I should have blogged it sooner, but oh well. (No worries JD!)
I won't go into any detail now, but I'm sure I'll be blogging more in the future as I'm able to share. I'll probably blog more about the MIX06 experience later too. Lot's to say, but too much to do!
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Comment from
drone
on 4/27/2006
Hello!
And.... what can you say about the MIX06 experience. Have any nice stuff?
There isn't anything bad to say... The common perception seemed to be, "...for a Microsoft conference its a whole lot more hip than I was expecting" I met several really cool people from Microsoft that I hope to meet again.
There were far too many acronymns tossed around, but even though the names for some were on the techy/geeky side they were pretty enough for a designer to overlook the names. Not much else to say at this time...
~Angela
Comment from
Bryan
on 3/22/2006
Congrats!!!!!
Thanks Bryan! :-) (Long time no talk; glad to see you're still around...) ~Angela
The bottom line when it comes to working with templates, is that where there's a will there's a way. (This applies to most anything in life in my opinion and I've found it to be the truth for the most part.)
Huh? What am I talking about? Patience dear blog reader...
In my observation, it seems that so many people find themselves in situations where templates don't seem to be able to do what they're after. Often I've heard people say that they feel overly constrained by how templates work and that they find templates unusable. Anytime that I witness this type of situation (usually on the newsgroups I visit), I feel compelled to try and help. Unfortunately these questions are often complicated and I just can't spare the time to help out like I'd like.
It is my hope that this blog post helps someone struggling with templates in Dreamweaver...
All I really have to say is that I've struggled too and when it comes to templates I've yet to find something that's completely stumped me that I can't make work for the site's needs. Sometimes, the solution isn't what I'd prefer it to be and is not what I'd call "ideal", but it works.
Please don't take that as an open invitation to try to stump me. Remember, I said I don't have the time to reply and help as tempted as I get to try...
My point is, that setting up templates to work for you and reach your template goals can take some heavy thinking. Chances are there's a suitable solution if you open your mind and are willing to explore different strategies.
To the intermediate to advanced template user: Yes, I know there are some issues and things could be better. I don't dispute that at all. That's not what this post is about; this post is for template skeptics or people new to templates.
Templates take some effort, have patience; they're worth it. Take the time to read the Dreamweaver help documentation. (It may seem like a boring thing to do, but its important.) Visit http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com and buy their book. (I did some tech editing on it way back when. Even though its 2 Dreamweaver versions behind, its still relevant and worth it.) Learn about how templates work, get some practice doing template tutorials, and you'll be much better off when doing your own templates.
Lastly, don't expect to be a total template master over night. Dreamweaver's templates are extremely powerful and once you start using their advanced features it can get very complex.
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Adobe realesed the Dreamweaver 8.0.1 updater today. (It is sure going to take some getting used to not saying "Macromedia"...)
Get the scoop on what's been fixed by checking out the Resolved Issues: http://www.macromedia.com/go/f56452a8
In the first paragraph of the Release Notes you'll find a link to the download. Be sure to read the installation instructions! (Don't forget to disable virus protection like I did...Oops!)
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Comment from
Johannes Voetter
on 5/18/2006
Cool! Thank you for these valuable information!!!
You're welcome! ~Angela
Here's a tip for you if you don't want Dreamweaver to render a specific <cfinclude> tag in Design view. Look at the tag in the previous sentence. Now go back and look at the tag in this subject line. Spot the difference?
If you close a cfinclude tag as if it were an empty element like in XHTML, Dreamweaver does not render the contents of the cfinclude.
This won't render in Design view:
<cfinclude template="/includes/header.cfm" />
This will render in Design view:
<cfinclude template="/includes/header.cfm">
Why wouldn't you want Dreamweaver to render a cfinclude you ask? Oh, I can come up with a lot of reasons... I'll give you but a few of them.
If anyone cares to share some potential uses for this trick, please be sure to leave a comment.
To any Adobe employees reading this blog post: Please do not "fix" the translator to account for the space and closing slash. This is not a bug; its an undocumented feature. ;-)
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Comment from
Randy Edmunds
on 1/17/2006
Angela,
I apologize for the "thanks for the bug report statement" comment. I honestly did not see your statement asking Adobe to not fix this until after my post, so I did not mean this as a snide remark.
The DW Team gets our fair share of grief from users for bad parsing, bad rendering, generating bad markup, etc. We can't let a bug this simple go unfixed!
At the same time, we also get grief for killing existing workflows, so that's why I wanted to assure you that your technique will still be available (after installing a simple extension), so fixing this bug will be the best of both worlds.
So, if this bug gets fixed in DW9 (for example) the extension will be simple. All you need to do is drop the .edml files from DW8 Application Configuration folder into the DW9 User Configuration folder. I volunteer to write it.
Regards,
Randy Edmunds
Dreamweaver Engineering
Hi Randy,
Thanks for posting again. No worries as far as the "thanks" in your original comment; no need to apologize at all! I had the feeling you didn't read the last part of my blog post or if you had, I thought you were teasing. I didn't think you were being snide at all.
Though I personally like it the way it is, I totally understand that it is something you have to fix. To be honest, I know that the include not rendering has bitten a few people. (That's actually how I came to discover the "trick" in the first place.) Some people aren't as willing to turn something around to their advantage like I am...
Once that's fixed I'll just have tip on how to put it back (using your extension). ;-) Then everyone can be happy; like you said, best of both worlds.
Thanks again!
~Angela
Comment from
Dan Short
on 1/16/2006
DON'T DO IT (that means you Randy)! I like hiding stuff I don't want to see in DW's design view. It's good fer ya. Builds characters. Yada yada yada...
Yeah, what Dan said. :-) ~Angela
Comment from
Barbara
on 1/16/2006
Neat Trick. It helps to be able to hide this sometimes due to layout issues in design view of dw. Very easy to put it back as well.
Thanks for the tip.
You're welcome Barbara. Let's hope enough people agree and Adobe doesn't "fix" what's not (as far as I'm concerned) broke. ;-) ~Angela
Comment from
Randy Edmunds
on 1/16/2006
FYI, the include file statements recognized by Dreamweaver are defined in the extensibility layer. Take a look at the searchPatterns defined in the include_lock.edml and include_tag.edml files in the Configuration/ServerBehaviors/ColdFusion folder.
Note that the 2 versions are for open (parsed) and unopen (unparsed) docs.
So, you can customize this to your tastes.
Thanks for the bug report! We'll be sure to fix this in the next release :)
Enjoy,
Randy
Yep, its configurable; I was just too lazy to type out the extra info for those who might want it. Thanks for the posting the added info :-)
(Folks if you're going to do so backup the files first, edit .edml files at your own risk, and only do so if you're confident with regular expressions.)
As for "fixing" it, I hope you're only teasing me! As you can see, there's a number of good uses for leaving it as is. I'm sure many will use this trick in other ways as well. Hopefully more people will chime in and convince you to leave it as is. :-) ~Angela
Comment from
jojo
on 1/15/2006
Neat trick!
A big plus will be the ability to hide included html mail, you can work on the real page in design view without the mail page interfering with wha tyou are doing.
Good one...Thanks for sharing! ~Angela
It seems that many people are wondering whether or not Adobe will continue to support ColdFusion. Let me first say that despite whatever you might think given what you (may think that you) know about me, I have no "insider" information. That said, here's what I think about it...
I've been to numerous government websites that are powered by ColdFusion. If I were Adobe, I wouldn't want to upset the government. Can you say tax audits? ;-)
In all seriousness, I don't think ColdFusion is going to disappear anytime soon -- at least not in the next 2 or 3 years. According to Macromedia's website, ColdFusion 5 is still supported in some capacity until January 1, 2007.
Further, they are still selling their Gold Support Program which is unlimited email or telephone incidents for one year. Adobe would have to honor that agreement, so that says to me that there's at least one more year where ColdFusion will be supported.
So I say, stop your worrying! You can start to worry when you see that Adobe has updated the site and it says they won't support ColdFusion anymore. When they do so, I doubt very much that it would be an overnight end to support. Most likely it would be at least a year from such announcment that support would be discontinued.
Keep in mind that Flex is also tied closely to ColdFusion. Imagine the uproar among Macromedia's (now Adobe's) enterprise level customers if they were to discontinue technologies they invested so much money in.
The aftermath of such a thing would surely damage Adobe's reputation and rattle customer confidence. Adobe has to know this, they aren't blind.
Granted large companies make stoooopid mistakes all the time. In my opinion discountinuing certain technologies such as ColdFusion would be a huge mistake. I just can't see Adobe making a mistake of that magnitude.
If I happen to be wrong and Adobe doesn't keep ColdFusion going, another group/company is sure to pick up where they left off. (If the sky did fall, there's always BlueDragon.)
I for one am sticking to ColdFusion.
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Comment from
Arindam
on 12/8/2005
If this was a security council meeting at the UN, I second your opinion.
Lol... Thanks Arindam. ~Angela
Comment from
Stephen Cassady
on 12/7/2005
The action that will make all the ColdFusion worry-warts breathe their collective sigh of relief will be the day that Adobe.com is powered by the Great and Wonderful Cold Fusion. I really do see that being a bigger and more meaninful move that anything at all that could be said (or not said) by emploees and management of Adobe. I would be perfectly comfortable in my love of Cold Fusion even if it never comes into discussion over the years in press releases, annual meetiengs etc (as some CFer comment all the time - "hey, where's the mention of CF?") if we just get the Adobe.com running on CF in it's totality.
That would speak volumes indeed. I seem to recall someone posting a link to some pages on Adobe's site that use ColdFusion back when the merger was first announced but I couldn't find it.
At some point I would expect that Adobe will make some kind of official statement. Until then...we wait! ~Angela
Comment from
Dave
on 12/7/2005
As long as Microsoft have there web technologies I believe Adobe will have theirs! The new platform that has been mentioned in connection to Flash and PDFmakes me think that we may see a platform develop around ColdFusion too. At the very worst they may eventually change its name!
What's in a name anyhow right? ;-) Of course, they'd have a lot of tags to rename...
The name ColdFusion carries a bit of irony with it; for such an easy language to learn its name sounds like rocket science. I've always liked that I can say, "I'm a ColdFusion programmer." It makes me sound like a genius. ;-)
Thanks for sharing Dave. ~Angela
Comment from
Rob Cameron
on 12/7/2005
I was a little worried about this too (what does Adobe know about server stuff?) but I've seen several other supportive posts lately, so I'll trust Adobe to watch out for us CFers. For now...
I saw a post of Ben's where he was drooling over the possibilities of integrating some Adobe technology into ColdFusion. I'd LOVE to see Adobe Image Server (or whatever it's called now) integration so that you can make JPEG files on the fly from CF code -- define a Photoshop template and have CF replace text, for example. Sweet!
Speaking of ColdFusion, checked out ColdFusion on Wheels yet? :) http://www.cfwheels.com
Thanks for sharing Rob. There's one thing you said that I want to respond to, 'what does Adobe know about server stuff?'.
Well now they know everything Macromedia did ;-) After all, Adobe hasn't gotten rid of everyone that was Macromedia. Ben Forta is still there and since Ben says that Scorpio is still moving forward, they can't be doing it without other ColdFusion engineers.
Ok, so you probably meant the marketing/sales people at Adobe. Surely they'll do their research and most likely there are at least a few from Macromedia around that can clue them in. :-)
Oh and yes my partner has been keeping an eye on CF on Wheels. With all the frameworks out there and now CF on Wheelse, it just goes to show the kind of following CF has already. I can only imagine that growing. ~Angela
Comment from
Ryan
on 12/7/2005
And why kill CF...its a profit generator anyway. As long as it makes back a reasonably good percentage on assets/investment and doesn't take away from the brand and corporate goals they would be stupid to kill it.
Goid points Ryan. Thanks for sharing. ~Angela
Comment from
Ben Forta
on 12/7/2005
ColdFusion is alive and well, Scorpio develpoment is still on track (and it is going to kick some serious butt, there, you heard it here first) ... actually, stay tuned, I am expecting a post specific to ColdFusion and Adobe any time now. (Here's a hint: CF is alive and well!).
Thanks Ben! I figured as much. :-) I'll look forward to reading that one.
[UPDATE]: Here's the link to Ben's site which links to an article. Don't forget to read the blog comments... http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/12/8/Mendels-Interview-Adobe-ColdFusion
~Angela