I just discovered, about 4 days ago, that you can format Visio database diagrams in the IDEF1X format. While IDEF1X has many shortcomings, I have to say I find it much easier to understand the relationships and constraints at a quick view in this format...
January 24, 2008 | In: tools
While this tool is certainly no silver bullet for conquering the beast of web page performance, it does provide some useful stats and suggestions that you may have overlooked during your development cycle. Check out the YSlow Firefox Add-On In...
January 14, 2008 | In: development, tools
Adobe recently put out a small poll to find out how interested the ColdFusion development community would be in an officially supported IDE. Someone posted it to the CF-Talk list and it generated the predictable, well-worn debate that happens every time...
This is going to be an amazing release, and this preview should be enough to convince you. I'm currently using the 1.1 release for an application, and I can't wait to use some of the 2.0 feature in the future. For me, the Web Desktop is the most...
September 29, 2007 | In: development, tools
Now that I've installed Trac about 10 times over the past year, I find that I still get a little confused every time because the documentation is a bit haphazard. I'm going to go over things very simply, in one list, step-by-step so there's no confusion...