Archive for August 30th, 2005

I want Dreamweaver 8 now!!

By
Andy
 – August 30, 2005Posted in: Web Development

Macromedia Studio 8 is going to be out soon and I can´t wait! I´ve got a very strange way of using Dreamweaver since the custom template systems I use and the fact that I do most linking using 404 redirects in htaccess means that the page view never gets it right and most of the other helpful features just screw up the site (like the checking for updated links thing). My main use of it is for the code highlighting and function completion features as well as the automatic ftp upload.
 
But that´s why I can´t wait for version 8. The ftp bit is annoying me more and more recently. Although our ftp servers aren´t particularly slow the upload process takes ages and I probably end up wasting an hour or so a day waiting for the files to get uploaded. The fact that it really slows down the PC while it´s doing it means I can´t do anything else at the time either!
 
Enter my saviour. Dreamweaver 8 and it´s background ftp feature. Aces!

Time to update my blogging code

By
Andy
 – August 30, 2005Posted in: Blogging

This blog, another one of mine and a few other people that I know run their blogs off this code that I´ve written. It´s not exactly feature rich but it does the job.
 
One of the things it does do is send out an email to people who´ve "subscribed" to it when I make a post. Only problem is that some of these people don´t check their email as quickly as I post, especially if I post a couple of times in one day. A few of them have asked if I can get it to only send them one email in a day. Sounds reasonable and will be fairly easy so think that´ll be next on my list of things to do.

 
Ask and you shall receive!