Wednesday, September 28, 2005

I know I've said this before but I'll say it again, I really like Coldfusion. I haven't used it in 2 years, all my work has been using php but you forget how simple Coldfusion makes tasks such as open an xml file, parse the xml and output the nodes you want. All that in about 10 lines of code... nice.

Jon 9:53 AM Permalink

Friday, September 23, 2005

A new security hole has been fixed with this latest patch and I recently read an article saying how Firefox has had more vulnerabilities exposed than IE over the last few months and I think people are jumping on the bandwagon slagging FF off. I think this needs to be put into perspective, Firefox is still in it's first version, and security updates are a good thing as it means safer browsing!

I'm not totally anti IE, I mean I still test everything in IE on PC eventually ;) On my mac I use Safari and sometimes Firefox, I really don't care as long as the rendering is consistent which unfortunately can't be said about IE6, hopefully version 7 will fix a lot of these problems, it's sounds like MS has been working hard to fix css issues and to try and regain some market share lost over the last few years.

Jon 9:36 AM Permalink

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

OK, so I've become a little obsessed! I'm happy, I've finally updated the code and now the t-shirt photos crossfade and also I have changed the setInterval so that it is set once the photo is actually loaded so that you get the same experience on a slow connection rather than the next photo being called before the first has loaded.

Jon 10:59 PM Permalink

I just found out that I can link to individual T-shirts and still have my streetteam name appended to the url, so now each image links through to the associated Threadless page. Like I said, only a slight update, I'm working on improving the loading experience next.

Jon 9:46 PM Permalink

I just got an email from myself, well from jonbloomer@jonbloomer.com which made me wonder, does anyone actually have the domain for my name? Well apparently the answer is yes and he likes mountains!

Jon 12:46 PM Permalink

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Ah bugger, this was out of stock:


but then I found this...phew:

Jon 3:05 PM Permalink

Friday, September 16, 2005

Although I have managed to resist proudly boasting about England winning the Ashes I will post this link and leave it at that ;)

Now onto Flash/Dreamweaver 8, I have been using the trial versions for a couple of days on a project that has to be exported as Flash 7, which is a shame as all the cool new features get deactivated. However, so far I have been impressed with the little additions like the tabbed panels, the object drawing option (although it really only groups an object but I suppose it saves you the hassle of doing it yourself) [UPDATE: You can change the colour of the object fill and stroke by just selecting the object so I take that last comment back!], the massively improved help files and the great new text rendering. Once I get started on a Flash 8 project I'm sure I'll get stuck into the filters and Bitmap classes.

As for Dreamweaver 8 the upgrade is quite subtle at first sight but there are some really great new time-saving features. One improvement I really like is the code-completion change, instead of just inserting a closing tag it waits for you to open a closing tag bracket and insert a slash, that may sound trivial to some people but I have spent far too long deleting closing tags when I didn't need them, and before anyone cries invalid xhtml I don't mean that I just have an opening tag!

Obviously another massive improvement is the visual css and xml support and I think this will be the biggest selling point. The ease of XSL creation is enough alone to make this upgrade worth the money, XSLT has always scared me but I now realise by looking at the code Dreamweaver produces that it is definitely not beyond my reach and is something I am going to be concentrating on over the next few months.

Anyway that's my 2 cents so far.

Jon 9:31 AM Permalink