JohnBs personal blog

Michael Smith mentioned in a recent Fusebox Conference interview emails that Team Fusebox had been announced, at that point i knew nothing about it. But I do now

I’ve been invited by Hal to join Team Fusebox and have happily accepted. So what will Team Fusebox aim to achieve?

• TF members will actively participate on the FB forums, answering
  people’s questions
• TF members will help provide new content for the FB.org site by writing two (or more!) articles over a six-month period.
• TF members will actively promote Fusebox and/or FLiP

There are a handful of other well known names who have also received invites but it’s not my place here to publicise them as they might not have accepted the invite yet..

I look forward to futher serving the FB community as a member of Team Fusebox.

Go here to fill in a survey to be considered for the upcoming Blackstone beta, the next release of Cold Fusion.

A strange thing happened this weekend, I was only able to connect using GPRS via my mobile phone and i noticed Firefox had somehow figured this out and was displaying JPGs in a degraded form. Mousing over the image i got a message telling me to “Ctrl + Shift + R” to reload the image.

This sent me off on the hunt for more Firefox keyboard shortcuts, and I found some really cool ones, for instance try pressing / on a Firefox page - this will enable a “Find as you type” search on the current page.

To check the list out for yourself, visit this site. There are also some great tips in the tips and tricks section, including speeding browsing up by 250ms and how to run Firefox off a memory stick!!

I had done my best to rid myself of Dreamweaver instead preferring to use the cfeclipse plugin for Eclipse but that thought has just gone out of the window.

Over the past couple of weeks i’ve been battling to get Steve Nelson and co’s Fusebox Explorer for DW working on my laptop - what ever i did , it barfed whenever i tried to run it….turns out it was html comment tags <!– –> that i’d used in various places in my fusebox.xml.cfm that caused the problem.

So now i’ve got the plugin working it’s very neat at this point in time 0.04 is the current release but i’ve connected to the CVS and grabbed 0.05 to check out the features Steve has just blogged about here. I’m going to use it over the next few days to see how i find it and features i’d like to see implemented.

Since it’s being developed by Fuseboxers then it’s got the potential to be awesome as people contribute more ideas to the project and it’s feature list builds, it’s well worth checking out if you haven’t already.

Why are blogs limited to just text? Most people’s blogs i read are just text - certainly the blogging apps i’ve seen are. Perhaps a little chunk of prettied code here and there but on the whole, plain old boring text.

As part of my ongoing site improvement I’ve now got functionality that allows me to add attachments to blog entries - images get displayed in the entry (suitably thumbnailed by cfx_image) whilst other files get displayed as a link to download. Attachments are supported by both visiting the site to add new entries and my new mobile blogging route using email on my cell phone - which means that when cell phone camera’s get decent i’ll be able to make use of it!

Hmmm, what next to play with?

So, I’ve been working on my site to increase the ‘viewability’ across multiple platforms and it’s just so easy!!!!! Recently, I’ve been looking at my extending my site so i can work on it/edit from a PocketPC.

Armed with Firefox and the user agent switcher (here) i added some logic to my site just before i apply my layouts;

Using the user agent switcher i can flip Firefox to appear as a PocketPC so it then uses the PPC template which minimizes the Javascript calls and CSS usage since the PocketPC browser is severely lacking in this department.

Fusebox really is neat!

Just logged into my Gmail and noticed a couple of new features.

Firstly, you can import contacts from Yahoo! Mail, Outlook etc. Also you can now append signatures to outgoing messages.

Also, all you Mac users will be happy that Safari 1.2.1 and above is now supported!

I’ve just rewritten portions of my site blog to allow me to submit blog entries direct from my cell phone.

I have a Sony Ericcson T610 cell phone which supports POP3/SMTP email so i’ve used CFPOP/CFMAIL to monitor a mailbox to publish content straight to my blog from the venue. It’s going to be a pain in the ass to punch entries in via the keypad but hey, it’s a labour of love!

I’m attending an event next weekend and due to it’s popularity live reports would be a bonus - good job i’ve notified Hostmysite that i’m gonna probably hog the bandwidth!

Just to remind everyone that the Fusebox 2004 early bird pricing ends today (UPDATE: Now extended to 31st July 2004), after which the $149 registration fee goes up to $199.

The conference is running at the Double Tree hotel in Rockville, Maryland, over the 18/19th September weekend. Fusebox4 topics will be on the Saturday and MachII topcis on the Sunday. I’m looking forward to hooking up with all my american friends later in the year and sinking a beer or too!

In case you’re wondering why Mozilla foundation released 0.9.2 only a matter of days after 0.9.2 you can read about a security fix that was required here

You’ve got two options, either apply the patch of upgrade to 0.9.2. Bloomin’ Windows!!!!