FarCry 5.1.6: Community Distribution Released

Daemonite — 2009-06-26T19:44:00+10:00

While development on the next version of FarCry 5.2 has been proceeding at a furious pace, there has been a whole raft of small fixes, and enhancements for the current FarCry 5.1 release. Get the latest cumulative roll-up of enhancements, bug fixes and tweaks.

IE8, Microsoft's Best Effort at Righting Past Wrongs?

Daemonite — 2009-02-15T11:05:00+10:00

While not specifically anti-IE, most web developers are nearly all pro web standards. By and large the developers I jostle with are building in some incarnation of gecko or webkit. Then it's hack and slay till it's tamed to work with IE in order to satisfy some random stake-holder. The mounting frustration inevitably leads web developers to use their influence to reduce IE's footprint.

FarCry 5.1 Public Beta Released

Daemonite — 2009-01-07T18:38:00+10:00

We've recently released another public beta for FarCry 5.1. There's a full community distro, complete with FarCry CMS for your installing pleasure. What was originally just a series of UI improvements, i18n updates and friendly URLs overhaul has blossomed into a very significant release - over 200 issues resolved.

webDU 2009 Call for Papers

Daemonite — 2008-11-29T17:01:00+10:00

The webDU 2009 Call For Papers is open. If you'd like to be a speaker at our annual, antipodean, web gab-fest in Sydney feel free to throw your hat in the ring. On the other hand, if you "like to watch", be part of our social, agenda building experiment at UserVoice.

<HEAD> Conference 24-26 October, 2008

Daemonite — 2008-10-22T14:43:00+10:00

Only a couple of days till the inaugural

FarCry 5 Jump Start Course Released

Daemonite — 2008-10-20T17:50:00+10:00

The Jump Start Course for FarCry development should be your first stop for getting to grips with your new FarCry web application. Daemon has released the course free for personal use under the Creative Commons License. On-site and online instructor led courses are available.

CFEclipse Dictionary Generator Released

Daemonite — 2008-09-13T15:22:00+10:00

Despite our best efforts, the Daemonites still struggle at keeping documentation up to date. Documenting tags and functions is tortuous. Maintaining that documentation on an evolving code base is even worse. Might as well attempt to turn back the tide, or change global temperature by eating tofu.

how to fake an objectid in sql server

Daemonite — 2008-08-15T13:18:00+10:00

We work with UUIDs a lot. If you have to work with application code bases that are cross platform and support multiple database servers its the most flexible primary key you'll find. But not all universally unique ids are the same. For example, ColdFusion uses an algorithm for generating them that is not the same as MS SQL Server.

XML Configs Suck

Daemonite — 2008-08-15T01:00:00+10:00

While XML is a great format for structured data, its not ideal for configuring code frameworks. When working with a framework your code is often broken up into smaller segments that are coordinated at run time. All to often this coordination is wired together using XML configuration files. Its this separation of configuration from code that makes XML so sucky. Embedding metadata into the code itself seems like a much more natural way to manage complex configuration.

FarCry Inline Docs & Icons

Daemonite — 2008-08-14T20:20:00+10:00

Seems like a silly thing, but one of my favourite FarCry 5.0 features is the ability to add inline documentation and icons to the webtop. We've been busy making things look pretty in the backend. It's weird how if it looks good, it "feels" good and its just more fun working with the framework.

Review: Mockups from Balsamiq

Daemonite — 2008-07-24T19:38:00+10:00

Balsamiq's "Mockups" tool is ideal for throwing together the straw-man, discussion point, come... well mockup, for application development. It's the perfect "electronic napkin". Quick. Intuitive. And if you're a scribbler, doodler, or back of the envelope kinda guy then this is the perfect app.

Desktop Keeley: Page 3 Distraction (Uncensored!)

Daemonite — 2008-07-18T16:01:00+10:00

Desktop Keeley is an Adobe AIR application, built by Glue London, for the Sun newspaper in England. Keeley is a regular Page 3 sensation who makes a profound contribution to society in her role as a mischievous genie in a laptop. Ok, it’s true she doesn’t have many lines - but she’s a sophisticated, method-actor with passion.

Improving Performance

Daemonite — 2008-07-15T16:37:00+10:00

When we talk about "improving performance" we're referring to things like greater throughput, more concurrent users served, improved responsiveness. Putting aside blue pills and nasal delivery systems, scaling application development is after much the same thing. When it comes to web applications, delivering your message as fast as you can leads to greater user satisfaction.

The webDU Trading Card Game

Daemonite — 2008-05-29T16:30:00+10:00

"All you have to do is submit a hand of our incredibly collectable trading cards to the friendly conference staff, and if it's one of the highest scoring hands, you could be in for a share of the goodies."

What happened to Peter Joel, Flash Aficionado?!

Daemonite — 2008-05-15T23:16:00+10:00

Peter Joel Blog, the voice of Peter Hall, started back in 2002 and was a regular stop for Flash developers of all levels. The enigmatic Hall has taken a much lower profile in recent years, but his updated webdu bio contains interesting highlights of his recent capers.

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