Dreamweaver doesn't create sloppy code any longer. Adobe.Macromedia has done a great job of improving Dreamweaver, including CSS support. One can create strict or transitional xhtml right in the code view - no more garbage is inserted.
A lot of the JS snippets haven't changed, but if you do that, you probably have your own library already developed.
DW is a tool for rapid application development. It's faster than hand coding, and produces excellent code when used correctly. This wasn't always the case, but to be fair, DW8 is excellent.
.NET does a strange thing where you can do mark up, style DIV tags, etc. but it will render things differently than you intended depending on the browser making the call. You have to go into IIS and change this...so, using ASP.NET, though it's server-side, does actually impact standards.
Perhaps this tool will fix this...I've used ASP and PHP professionally for years now and the only time I'll use a.NET solution is when I'm forced to do so. I do not see Expressions as a DreamWeaver killer, anymore than Sparkle is a Flash killer.
...outside of work. It makes it easier to stay positive, be healthy and be productive while AT work. I've also found that staying committed to what I'm doing, rather than being attached to it helps. By that I mean, if I'm working on a project and the goal is XYZ - and some political crap happens, or some block gets in my way - I look at how to get around the block to do XYZ, rather than stay blocked.
Spidey got the black suit during the secret wars - he shed the suit after it began doing crimes using Peter Parker's body while PP was sleeping. I lost interest (briefly) in comics after the secret wars, and I don't know all the much about venom in the current continuity.
Topher Grace could have played Peter Parker, and IMO, that makes him a good choice for Venom.
Name the top 5 songs on the billboard charts. Can you? I can't, and I used to work in the music industry as a buyer. Does Billboard even exist anymore?
The music industry is flailing, and it's easy to point at piracy as the problem. But, it isn't. There are no hits, no real momentum. Concert ticket prices are very expensive, CD Prices are ridiculous and I'd wager most of the industries revenue comes from back catalog. That's where iTunes is raking it in - the back catalog.
iTunes just signed up Madonna. They have some two million songs. Of course they want Apple to raise their prices - they see it's the future.
The beautiful thing is, new artist's don't need the music industry. You can buy everything you need at Best Buy to start a music career, and you can hire a company to help with marketing.
Screw the RIAA and the Music Industry....long live iTunes and digital media.
I have a boss who isn't what I'd consider very technical...he understand telephony, general network stuff, permissions, etc. But, his understanding general and his skills are circa 1995 access and excel. He does, however, have a strong management background and can "work" people. I think having an IT manager who is a good manager is almost more important than having a brain-dead one, or a know-it-all.
A good manager will let you do your job and not get in your way.
I have used infopath to create a storyboarding tool for writers to populate online. (This was for a CD-ROM project). And this was a year ago. I had to use MS Sharepoint Portal Server to do this, and the used needed to have InfoPath on their machines.
InfoPath IS a proprietary format - it uses a DTD and XML and I think two other files in a Zip ball.
What I did, though, was to just copy the XML files and use Macromedia Director to read them...I imported the content for each screen in the project straight from the XML document and ignored the rest. It worked well.
I am a poor speller. I read once that people who consistently misspell certain words will continue to do so throughout life.
What I've notice with myself is that I no longer put a lot of effort into correcting myself because of spelling (and sometimes grammar) checks that are built into the programs I use. Even Photoshop has a spell check.
The incentive to be a good speller has evaporated because, I suppose, I don't really have to worry about it on a daily basis. I can't remember the last hand written letter I sent.
Bootlegging has always been a successful marketing tool. Dave Mathews wisely followed in the Dead's footsteps by allowing people to make live recordings directly from the mixing console. College kids in particular passed the tapes around and launched the D.Mathews band to greater heights. It makes sense that BSCG would profit from this, too - the show is great.
Here's a question - I just glanced though the W3C site looking for info on mobile devices and how to treat them. By standards, I'm guessing you are talking about the stuff Feldman talks about in his book (which I just got today). So, do mobile devices respond the the web in the same way browsers do? And by using CSS, etc., these mobile devices will display the information presented correctly? My phone has text only, and honestly, I never use it.
Well, ActionScript isn't used in Dreamweaver. Nor in Director, for that matter. But that's not the point.
Dreamweaver creates JavaScript. Pleaee take a stroll over to Macromedia's support pages if you feel compeled to argue about it and take it up with them (they use the word "JavaScript," not ECMA implementation). And, Dreamweaver doesn't generate JScript. I suppose that you are right if you are saying M$ would rather have their own implementation than license JavaScript from NetScape. Interestingly, IE works well with JavaScript - I've never had a need to use JScript, except with M$ Infopath, where it's the default scripting language.
So perhaps we can expect a M$ implementation of CSS Pepsi. Because, following your logic, why would they drink anything else?
You can use JavaScript in ASP and JSP pages - I've done it. You can use it in Acrobat as well (opens links to site, pages, etc). Dreamweaver is an editor that creates JavaScript. Opera and Konqueror are web browsers that respond to JavaScript.
I think you may find that's not true. I work as a web developer - I know a lot of other web developers...we all use JavaScript everyday. Many websites you visit use JavaScript at some point. Flash can use JavaScript (and yes, ActionScript is basically the same implimentation of the ECMA standard).
It's an interesting point about trademark infringement - but wouldn't all browers need their own implimentation of JavaScript? Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, etc. didn't create a version of the scripting language to handle pages using JavaScript.
I used to wonder why Microsoft created JScript, since, it's pretty much JavaScript. Actually, I still wonder about that. Perhaps they aren't fully supporting CSS2 because they don't own it? Nuts.
My degree is in MUSIC. Once we started having kids, I decided to pursue another, more lucrative interest - computers. I started out (sucker) pursuing MCSE training at a local community college. Fortunately, the class was canceled after a short time. I'd seen some scripting, though, and became interested in programming. I've learned and done as much as I possibly can since then in every language I can get to.
I'm now working at a school, and we use ASP, Java, Squeak, SQL and Flash to teach the kids. It's really exciting to see kids working with this stuff - I wish I had been exposed to it in high school. It'll be pretty amazing to see where THEY take us.
MICRONAUTS were the coolest toys. And the Marvel Comic wasn't too bad, either. They developed a good background story to support these really interesting and diverse toys made by mego.
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Truth...we are using the wizbang toolbox things. Well said.
Dreamweaver doesn't create sloppy code any longer. Adobe.Macromedia has done a great job of improving Dreamweaver, including CSS support. One can create strict or transitional xhtml right in the code view - no more garbage is inserted. A lot of the JS snippets haven't changed, but if you do that, you probably have your own library already developed. DW is a tool for rapid application development. It's faster than hand coding, and produces excellent code when used correctly. This wasn't always the case, but to be fair, DW8 is excellent.
.NET does a strange thing where you can do mark up, style DIV tags, etc. but it will render things differently than you intended depending on the browser making the call. You have to go into IIS and change this...so, using ASP.NET, though it's server-side, does actually impact standards.
.NET solution is when I'm forced to do so. I do not see Expressions as a DreamWeaver killer, anymore than Sparkle is a Flash killer.
Perhaps this tool will fix this...I've used ASP and PHP professionally for years now and the only time I'll use a
This made my day. Thanks, ladies. :)
They are hoping she'll be the next Britney Spears, and they can increase their profit margins if the RIAA can get a new guardian.
...outside of work. It makes it easier to stay positive, be healthy and be productive while AT work. I've also found that staying committed to what I'm doing, rather than being attached to it helps. By that I mean, if I'm working on a project and the goal is XYZ - and some political crap happens, or some block gets in my way - I look at how to get around the block to do XYZ, rather than stay blocked.
People recognize commitment. And being positive.
"Pessimism robs ordinary people of their power."
Spidey got the black suit during the secret wars - he shed the suit after it began doing crimes using Peter Parker's body while PP was sleeping. I lost interest (briefly) in comics after the secret wars, and I don't know all the much about venom in the current continuity.
Topher Grace could have played Peter Parker, and IMO, that makes him a good choice for Venom.
What Apple has done is great!
Name the top 5 songs on the billboard charts. Can you? I can't, and I used to work in the music industry as a buyer. Does Billboard even exist anymore?
The music industry is flailing, and it's easy to point at piracy as the problem. But, it isn't. There are no hits, no real momentum. Concert ticket prices are very expensive, CD Prices are ridiculous and I'd wager most of the industries revenue comes from back catalog. That's where iTunes is raking it in - the back catalog.
iTunes just signed up Madonna. They have some two million songs. Of course they want Apple to raise their prices - they see it's the future.
The beautiful thing is, new artist's don't need the music industry. You can buy everything you need at Best Buy to start a music career, and you can hire a company to help with marketing.
Screw the RIAA and the Music Industry....long live iTunes and digital media.
I have a boss who isn't what I'd consider very technical...he understand telephony, general network stuff, permissions, etc. But, his understanding general and his skills are circa 1995 access and excel. He does, however, have a strong management background and can "work" people. I think having an IT manager who is a good manager is almost more important than having a brain-dead one, or a know-it-all.
A good manager will let you do your job and not get in your way.
I have used infopath to create a storyboarding tool for writers to populate online. (This was for a CD-ROM project). And this was a year ago. I had to use MS Sharepoint Portal Server to do this, and the used needed to have InfoPath on their machines.
InfoPath IS a proprietary format - it uses a DTD and XML and I think two other files in a Zip ball.
What I did, though, was to just copy the XML files and use Macromedia Director to read them...I imported the content for each screen in the project straight from the XML document and ignored the rest. It worked well.
I am a poor speller. I read once that people who consistently misspell certain words will continue to do so throughout life. What I've notice with myself is that I no longer put a lot of effort into correcting myself because of spelling (and sometimes grammar) checks that are built into the programs I use. Even Photoshop has a spell check. The incentive to be a good speller has evaporated because, I suppose, I don't really have to worry about it on a daily basis. I can't remember the last hand written letter I sent.
Bootlegging has always been a successful marketing tool. Dave Mathews wisely followed in the Dead's footsteps by allowing people to make live recordings directly from the mixing console. College kids in particular passed the tapes around and launched the D.Mathews band to greater heights. It makes sense that BSCG would profit from this, too - the show is great.
Here's a question - I just glanced though the W3C site looking for info on mobile devices and how to treat them. By standards, I'm guessing you are talking about the stuff Feldman talks about in his book (which I just got today). So, do mobile devices respond the the web in the same way browsers do? And by using CSS, etc., these mobile devices will display the information presented correctly? My phone has text only, and honestly, I never use it.
uh, ok. Clearly, we are talking about different subjects, so this is my last response to you. Take care, little friend. :)
Well, ActionScript isn't used in Dreamweaver. Nor in Director, for that matter. But that's not the point.
Dreamweaver creates JavaScript. Pleaee take a stroll over to Macromedia's support pages if you feel compeled to argue about it and take it up with them (they use the word "JavaScript," not ECMA implementation). And, Dreamweaver doesn't generate JScript. I suppose that you are right if you are saying M$ would rather have their own implementation than license JavaScript from NetScape. Interestingly, IE works well with JavaScript - I've never had a need to use JScript, except with M$ Infopath, where it's the default scripting language.
So perhaps we can expect a M$ implementation of CSS Pepsi. Because, following your logic, why would they drink anything else?
Cheers.
I assure you that I do. See, the tag that says script language="JavaScript" makes it JavaScript. Sorry. :)
You can use JavaScript in ASP and JSP pages - I've done it. You can use it in Acrobat as well (opens links to site, pages, etc). Dreamweaver is an editor that creates JavaScript. Opera and Konqueror are web browsers that respond to JavaScript.
I think you may find that's not true. I work as a web developer - I know a lot of other web developers...we all use JavaScript everyday. Many websites you visit use JavaScript at some point. Flash can use JavaScript (and yes, ActionScript is basically the same implimentation of the ECMA standard). It's an interesting point about trademark infringement - but wouldn't all browers need their own implimentation of JavaScript? Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, etc. didn't create a version of the scripting language to handle pages using JavaScript.
I used to wonder why Microsoft created JScript, since, it's pretty much JavaScript. Actually, I still wonder about that. Perhaps they aren't fully supporting CSS2 because they don't own it? Nuts.
Are Active Server Pages considered a programming language? VBScript (and JavaScript and JScript) pretty much runs any programmatic content in ASP.
My degree is in MUSIC. Once we started having kids, I decided to pursue another, more lucrative interest - computers. I started out (sucker) pursuing MCSE training at a local community college. Fortunately, the class was canceled after a short time. I'd seen some scripting, though, and became interested in programming. I've learned and done as much as I possibly can since then in every language I can get to.
I'm now working at a school, and we use ASP, Java, Squeak, SQL and Flash to teach the kids. It's really exciting to see kids working with this stuff - I wish I had been exposed to it in high school. It'll be pretty amazing to see where THEY take us.
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Whirly bird! Yes! That thing was so much fun, for as simple as it was. There was a fire rescue version, too.
Toys from the 1970's make me think of the Micronauts. They were by far much cooler than Star Wars figures, and the came BEFORE transformers.
MICRONAUTS were the coolest toys. And the Marvel Comic wasn't too bad, either. They developed a good background story to support these really interesting and diverse toys made by mego.
I agree - I've gotten used to Lingo, but it's not my favortie. The new director allows for JavaScript, which is kinda neat.