Archive for 2009
Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla. Sounds like spaghetti again.
I am overly tired of dealing with heavy site customizations that must take place within these “frameworks” such as Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla. It is very depressing for me because I have being forced to write bad code which is exactly what has to be done to make a “successful” module or reusable feature for [...]
Tagged as cms, content management, design pattern, drupal, joomla, spaghetti code, wordpress
Categorized as General, PHP
ColdFusion Application Multi-Environment Configuration
A common problem that I and I’m sure many others have had in the development process of web applications is handling application configuration for different environments such as local development, staging, and production sites. For quite some time now I have had this problem licked in my ColdFusion applications by using a SettingsManager class I [...]
Categorized as ColdFusion
Flex Image Smoothing Made Easy
As the number of Flash websites that I work on increase, so does my need for convienance components in Flex. I figured I would start with one of the most commonly needed features of all which is an easy way to enable smoothing on the mx.controls.Image class. My extended version of this class offers a [...]
Tagged as bitmap, Flash, Flex, Image, smoothing
Categorized as ActionScript, Flash, Flex