Posts Tagged ‘programming’

8 things programmers should know about UI design

Cristian Pascu wrote a nice blog post on FlairBuilder. It’s an article about the basics of User Interface (UI) design of a website, which will definitely come in handy. Here’s a shortlist.
1. Content layout
Always keep in mind that a clean and consistent layout helps people navigate through your website.
2. Typography
Learn about different font types, sizes [...]

Object Relational Mapping (ORM) in ColdFusion 9

Today was quite an exciting day for us attendees of Scotch on the Rocks (SotR). One of the key parts of today’s sessions was Object Relational Mapping (ORM) in ColdFusion 9. If you are unfamiliar with what ORM really is (like I was, not so long ago), read about the basic principles on WikiPedia.
Now, to [...]

Directly aborting a cfdump!

Today was a big day for us “Adobe-minded” people: Adobe’s Scotch on the Rocks tour (SotR) made its very first stop in Amsterdam, at the Dutch Adobe division.
One very cool thing pointed out by Adobe ColdFusion Product ManagerĀ Adam Lehman during one of the sessions today, was that – believe it or not – you can [...]

Strange week numbers in ColdFusion

We had a strange problem in ColdFusion recently, using weeknumbers and dates. In ColdFusion, you can use the Week() function to determine what weeknumber the week of any given date has. A very useful function you’d say. However, January 1st 2010 will present a very weird problem.
The international ISO 8601, containing the international standard about [...]

Pilcrow v2.0!

Today it’s time for something new. A design, made from scratch, by me. I found the previous design on a directory of free WordPress themes, but that’s getting pretty lame as time goes by.
Kudos go to Tung Do who maintains the wonderful website of WPDesigner.com which got me going.
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