Adobe Widget Browser for Dreamweaver CS5

The Adobe® Dreamweaver® Widget Browser is an Adobe AIR® application that lets you preview and configure widgets using a visual interface. The Widget Browser solves the problem of having to work with confusing or obscure CSS and JavaScript by providing designers with a tool for editing widget properties to suit their needs.

Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail

When developing an application, many things are considered. “What do we intend to do?” or “Why would a customer or user consider us over the competition?” are usually the questions asked in a new venture. Usually the stakeholder provides all these answers. However, more times than not, the outcome of the best planned project can fall short. The reasons vary but in many cases it can be attributed to one person providing the scope or mission statement for the project or having the technical aspects of the project drafted first and the reasons for doing the project considered last.

Welcome

In many of the blog entries I will write I will put a lot of focus on heuristics and team involvement in project management and development.  I hope you will find this interesting and I welcome your comments.  I still intend to develop some projects and I will do my best to create some real-world scenarios and avoid the common widget or foo-bar way of presenting solutions.

Google oAuth 2.0 Connector for ColdFusion 8 and 9

Creating the Google oAuth connector will allow your site to accept a visitor's gmail credentials. I have built a testing harness you are all free to play with.

I had a brief conversation with Ray Camden about a post he made on his blog about 6 weeks ago.  His blog pretty much explains what is being done under the hood of my application.  That said, mine is a little more involved.  But rather than reinvent the wheel, you can read what he had to say here.

The testing harness is here.

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