Comments for Musings of a code slave

Comment on Essential Guide goes to fifth printing by Pamela Thompson

Pamela Thompson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:04:09 +0000

Thank you for writing this book! Did you write it just for me? I am a self-taught graphic designer slash marketing executive who knows nothing about writing code except for one thing: if it’s broke, I will spend at least 28 hours tring to fix it. I have used dreamweaver and flash to design many beautiful websites over the years, but have never been able to integrate these server side technologies with any sucess. Your book is positioned perfectly for the experienced designer who needs to learn the developer side. It is the perfect combination of “orientation” and “technical details” written in a clear and well organized style. Bravo.

Pamela Thompson
VP Sales and Marketing
http://www.radiantdisplays.com

Comment on Essential Guide goes to fifth printing by Golam

Golam — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:24:49 +0000

David,
THank you for writing this book. I am a beginner in web development trying to learn how to develop a website. I have choosen DW as my web browsing tool and based on my research, want to learn php.
I am enjoying the book very much and based on your instruction moved along quite nicely with the sample chapters. However, I am having some issues when I was trying to get some dynamic parameters from a url using get function.
I am wondering, If I can send you the files so that you can take a look?
Any help and advise is much appreciated.
Thanks

Comment on Essential Guide goes to fifth printing by David Powers

David Powers — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:48:06 +0000

Thanks, Todd and Markus. I’m glad to see that it’s finally back in print.

@Markus: Doing a multilanguage site is an interesting idea. I’ll certainly give it some thought, but I don’t think it will be possible to include it in the CS4 version of the book. There are quite a lot of issues to think about when creating such a site. I don’t think there is a single “right” way of doing it.

Comment on Virtual hosts on Mac OS X Leopard by Edward

Edward — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:50:19 +0000

I never could get it working after much research and headache. What I ended up doing was installing MAMP (and changing to the default apache and mysql ports in prefs per your suggestion on another site) and then using Headdress to set up the virtual hosts. The final missing link was to choose the folders for local root folder, images folder and testing server folder in manage sites the way you explained it in the book (select the exact root folder), but because Headdress uses port-based virtual hosts, the URL prefix field on the testing server pane of manage sites needs to say the address for the virtual site given by Headdress (i.e. http://localhost:9000/). After that, virrtual hosts finally worked again!

Comment on Essential Guide goes to fifth printing by Markus

Markus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:08:09 +0000

Great book! Thanks, you really make a difference with your books David.

One request though. For international readers it is of the highest interest how to create multi language sites. It would be really nice if you could cover how to approach this in a blog or in a future book.

Right now i do not know what the best approach is.

Thanks.

Comment on Stunning new Dreamweaver in public beta by David Powers

David Powers — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:08:33 +0000

Yes, Betsy, there will be an Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4. There are a lot of new features in CS4, so the existing CS3 book needs a lot of rewriting. It’s 750 pages, so that’s going to take quite a lot of time to do. I would like to get the book out as soon as possible after the release of CS4, but neither friends of ED nor I know when Adobe plans to release it. The sooner the release, the longer the delay will be in publishing the book. But I’m hoping to get it out within one or two months of the program itself.

Comment on Stunning new Dreamweaver in public beta by Betsy

Betsy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:11:42 +0000

I hope Foundation is planning (for shortly after release) an Essential Guide to DW CS4… yes?

I still have CS2 and am working with a trial version of CS3 that I was lucky enough to get for 65 days, thanks to Adobe’s repair tool … and although CS3 is an improvement over CS2, it’s not enough to spend $ when CS4 is coming along.

Comment on Dreamweaver crashes apparently caused by corrupted cache file by Carol

Carol — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:05:05 +0000

Wow. That is unbelievable.

I’ve been struggling with this for about 7 hours; been on the phone with Adobe; uninstalled and reinstalled Dreamweaver.

Adobe’s solution was to create a new user account and use Dreamweaver with that account, which would have caused all kinds of overhead with other apps installed & configured for main user account. This appeared to work because I had created a new site with a slightly larger .css and hadn’t yet opened the 8192 file. I am assuming that user account would have had the same problem eventually.

Nothing worked until I read David’s post above and put some whitespace into my .css file, which was exactly 8,192 bytes before.

THANK YOU, David - you just saved me from a nightmare!
Carol

Comment on Dreamweaver crashes apparently caused by corrupted cache file by David Powers

David Powers — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:15:16 +0000

Claudia, if one site is causing the crash, it almost certainly means that you are affected by a little known bug. Any file that is an exact multiple of 8,192 bytes causes Dreamweaver to crash. Examine the file sizes in Windows Explorer. Open any suspect file in a text editor, add a few blank spaces, and save the file. If it’s an image, move it outside the site folder. You should then be able to restart Dreamweaver without crashing.

Comment on Dreamweaver crashes apparently caused by corrupted cache file by Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:40:51 +0000

Thanks for the fix, it solved half of my problem with Dreamweaver CS3 crashing on Vista.
After reinstalling DW,deleting the “Configuration” file and renaming the last site I was working on I can now start DW flawlessly…
but I am unable to work on that last site in DW.
As soon as I create the site cache DW crashes.
My guess is that this issue is related to spry, as the crashes started when I removed spry data from the last page I was working on.
Do you have any idea on fixing this?
Thanks