New Lynda.com Title Released
That's right, I have another title up on Lynda.com today, Dynamic Development Using ASP and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
The Lynda.com description: "Dynamic Development Using ASP and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004" with Daniel Short is a movie-based tutorial designed to familiarize Dreamweaver MX 2004 users with dynamic development using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP). The training begins with a brief introduction to database design and best practices, then shows you how to use Dreamweaver's built-in server behaviors to create a blog application with an administrative backend. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.
The movie walks you through building your own mini-blog, covering everything from the initial database design to handling user comments and user authentication in the blog admin area. You'll learn how to use just about every bit of dynamic functionality in Dreamweaver MX 2004 (much of which is applicable to Dreamweaver MX as well).
Check out the samples online and let me know what you think.
CFAnywhere
Larry Lyons pointed me to a post on House of Fusion that discussed a way to run CFMX or BlueDragon from a CD, which would allow you to send out mini-applications on CD to potential clients. This is somethign I blogged about some time ago, and it looks like CFAnywhere might be the answer.
I haven't tested this myself, so I don't know exactly how well it does/doesn't work, but if anyone has some experience using this method I'd love to hear it.
Fahrenheit 451
I finished Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury yesterday, and given the fact that the book was printed in 1953, I have to wonder if Ray Bradbury really could see the future. His vision of the homogenzation of society was even scarier given the fact that he wrote about it more than half a century ago. The idea of every group (and he mentions them as minorities) getting offended by one thing or another, and removing that item/word/idea that's offenstive, until we eventually have nothing but a plain vanilla world, devoid of any real meaning or independent thought. Just gave me the chills :D
It was also great to have such a poignant book done in less than a day, considering the story itself was only 170 pages. But one of the best parts of the book is a rant at the end of the book written by Bradbury. Now my publishers might not want to hear this, but Bradbury's rant was about editors, and the editing process, and how a wonderful idea can be put through the publishing machinery and come out as something completely different on the other side. Was just great to hear the same frustrations from someone of Bradbury's stature...
Anyway, I'm off to Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. I've read Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age, as well as In the Beginning...was the Command Line (thanks Danilo), and Quicksilver is a complete departure, being based in the 1700s. However, I'm not even through the first 200 pages and he's already dealing with the beinnings of computer language through the Royal Society. Should be a fun journey :).
Back to your regularly scheduled program.