Entries Tagged as Web Development

The Toolbox: a roundup of the software I rely on to get stuff done

The ToolboxI figured I'd do a little series of posts about which applications I install on my PC after a reinstall, and in what order. Mostly I thought it would be a nice idea for my own reference, maybe compare it to an update list in a few years and see what the changes are.

This is definately something that will need several posts, probably I'll do one or two apps pr posting, and I'll use this post to keep an updated index of the posts.

The order of the list is based on notes I made the last time I reinstalled both my home and work PCs, and will contain a "consolidated" list, some things I might install on the home PC, some on the work PC, and most of it on both. Where it makes sense I'll mention if it applies to just one of them. I'm including assorted utilities and helper apps, but I'm leaving out drivers and such. Still, some tools might be more or less hardware specific.

So, time to get on with the list! And the first thing that gets installed on all my computers is...

  1. Opera

Adobe will soon ship CS3 - Wonder if they fixed the upgrade installers?

Unless you've been hiding under a rock the last few days, or don't really care at all, you'll know that Adobe has announced the CS3 edition of products and will be shipping (most) editions soon. Set aside all the fancy new stuff (and there is some GREAT new stuff in there almost regardless which products you use), one of the things I'm most anxiously waiting to see is if they *finally* fixed their bloody installers when it comes to the upgrade products.

Great Utility: SQL Intellisense in any editor

This neat little tool called SQL Prompt will plug a hole in many of the tools I use on a semi-daily basis; intellisense functionality in most editors you'd care to use for SQL authoring. And the price is right :) (yeah, that means free)

Adobe has published an archive of the Developer Week sessions

It looks like there's some great stuff there, gonna check it out as soon as I find the time. Especially the Coldfusion + Flex stuff! http://www.onflex.org/ted/2006/06/adobe-developer-week-sessions.php

Handling of digital photos in Coldfusion

Finally came across some easy and resource friendlier (than I've been using so far) tips on handling information from digital camera files in Coldfusion. Seth Duffey has some tips on reading exif information and making a histogram from jpegs. He's also the developer of the rather cool CFCPhotoblog.