Many GoLive users have had issues with the GL2DW extension supplied by Adobe to ease the transition of site resources from GoLive CS2 to Dreamweaver CS3. Rob Keniger has graciously released an updated (and more forgiving) version of the extension:
http://menumachine.com/download/GL2DW.zip
Thanks, Rob!
For more information, see Adobe’s User-to-User Forums:
Looks like the release version of Adobe’s Flex Builder 3 is now available, along with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime - for running rich internet applications on the desktop).
Flex Builder 3
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
Adobe AIR
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
Flex 3 SDK
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex3email
New Rich Internet Applications site
http://www.adobe.com/resources/business/rich_internet_apps/
Re-launched Adobe Open Source Website
http://opensource.adobe.com
I’m a little ashamed to say I barely broke the surface with Flex Builder 2 since I’ve been so tied up with PHP work, but I’m looking forward to getting a better idea of what Adobe has to offer with Flex 3. Anything that helps to build better web applications faster seems worth learning to me… we’ll see how that goes (and hopefully understand what all the hype is about).
One of the things that interests me about Flex is the possibility of creating Ajax-style effects without fighting with the various browser JavaScript quirks. But having never really gotten into Flash, it’s a big jump for me to delve into that world. I’m less intimidated by having to learn ActionScript 3 than I am about working within a framework for a change. But frameworks aren’t inherently evil, and I’m willing to give it a try.
I’d be interested in comments from anyone else who’s made the jump from, say, PHP/Ajax development to Flex; also to ColdFusion, as that’s another item on my to-learn list.
In my first blog post on this site, I posted a review of GoLive 9 and my intentions for moving future development to Dreamweaver because of, primarily:
If you’re one of the GoLive users who unwittingly “upgraded” from CS2 to 9, a new extension named DeforceCSS has recently been released by Oliver Michalak with some help from Rob Keniger that at least helps to work around my problem #1 above.
After installing the extension, it will run as a maintenance script to strip the CSS styles that GoLive 9 writes by default. From what I can tell, it runs when saving the file or switching view modes, for instance from Layout to Source.
If you are NOT someone who would like to retain control of your source code and you WANT GoLive to help you generate markup, then this extension is not for you - you’re better off with GoLive’s default behavior, but if you’re a developer or experienced coder who would like to continue working in GoLive 9 without worrying about automatically generated styles, then it’s definitely worth a download. At this point, it seems to be a FREE download.
Thanks Oliver (and Rob)!
SitePoint has just made public their CSS Reference website. I’ve really only skimmed the site thus far, but it seems well worthy of at least a bookmark in the browser.
As with most of the books I’ve purchased from SitePoint (and I have quite a few), the site seems true to its name in that it’s best used as a reference than as a tutorial source for beginners to CSS. Not to say there’s nothing there for beginners, but the verbiage can be a little difficult to follow if you’re not already at least vaguely familiar with the technology being discussed. Perhaps some illustrations would help for things like the box model - not unlike their fine CSS Quick Reference Poster. But I’m a visual person…
Overall, I’d say they did a fine job, and I look forward to checking out the upcoming HTML and JavaScript reference sites.