I took the survey!
just took the survey over at a list apart, can't think why this hasn't been done before...never mind...its done now...go take it!
0 comments - Posted by mark at 12:01 PM - Categories: General
personally I know the importance of coding to a particular standard in terms of code re-use, code maintenance and ease of understanding for others working with the same codebase, so I was happy to come across this little gem for coldfusion.
coldfusion MX Coding Guidelines0 comments - Posted by mark at 11:06 AM - Categories: Coldfusion
As a collective team between east coast interactive, whitesparks and silverleaf, we now play football with Intersum (we currently all share an office and Intersum are the other company on this floor) on a Wednesday night...I couldn't make the first game last week but limbered up, got my footballing head on and dragged myself along this week.
Last night was the first time in years I'd kicked a football so you can imagine the shape I was in after an hour of running about like an idiot...still, it was a great laugh and yes...I even managed to score, I reckon It was a wonder goal but the rest of the guys probably disagree, that's the nature of the game I suppose!
Apart from my obvious legendary form, the game gave us all a chance to meet each other out with the office, learn who everyone is and generally have some banter....I mean usually we just head down to the ambassador and kick Stuarts arse at pool but I must admit, meeting up with another company and playing a different game was fun...even though I could barely get myself out of bed this morning and 90% of my leg muscles hate me and are not afraid to remind me of what I made them do!...so, another few weeks of this and all of the companies will be sporting fighting fit staff...and we'll all know each other properly..so...who's round is it then?
0 comments - Posted by mark at 9:53 AM - Categories: General
East Coast Interactive Ltd have just employed a new developer to help with the ever bulging workload.
They needed someone who was on top of their game, had years of experience in new media environments, was a proven web designer and developer, had experience of working with video....ok...ok...yes, it's me...Mark McAulay.
I look forward to working full time for this fast growing company and doing more fancy stuff for a living.
I continue to develop for whitesparks and the whole online print and design network, only now its under the east coast interactive banner. We envisage great things!
0 comments - Posted by mark at 10:43 AM - Categories: General
right...I decided to have a little play around with Flex Data Services today. I popped over to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex to download Flex Data Services Express, which is a free, single machine version. Went through the installation process until I got to the screen asking if I wanted to install FDS with integrated jrun or the J2EE web application, I chose the latter because my development machine runs Coldfusion in its jrun configuration so I thought it could be deployed on top of that...after hours of confusion, it turns out that this is not the case.
Apparently FDS needs it own jrun instance as does coldfusion...doh!
So, due to the lack of obvious documentation to tell me this, I spent several hours scratching my head before uninstalling FDS completely and re-installing it with he "integrated jrun" configuration
I just selected "start>all programs>adobe>flex data services 2>start integrated flex server" and away it went, a quick check on http://localhost:8700/samples confirmed this.
so people if you're just starting out, don't make the same assumption as I did, select the integrated jrun version and save yourself a load of pain!
I looked briefly at a few options so here's a couple of links that may be handy depending on your configuration.
1 comments - Posted by mark at 7:35 PM - Categories: Flex
just launched silverleaf clothing with some fancy shmancy javascript courtesy of moofx
pretty soon the full shabang e-commerce, online design enabled site will be live...stay tuned!
2 comments - Posted by mark at 11:42 PM - Categories: Launches
As we know that people will not stop running ie6 in favour of ie7 for some time to come...so, as a developer, how do you get around the problem of having to test for both browsers when writing sites?
Easy...you simply upgrade to ie7(if you haven't already) and then download the standalone ie6 from the evolt site and run it from where ever you choose...job done!
0 comments - Posted by mark at 7:29 PM - Categories: Tools
