http://foundationphp.com/blog Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:33:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past couple of weeks, online stores in the United States have been out of stock of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP. I've been in touch with my publisher to find out what the problem is. Apparently, the book has proved far more ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/06/02/essential-guide-goes-to-fifth-printing/ A bug in mechanism that counts down the remaining days of trial versions of most Adobe software means that any trial launched during June 2008 will expire after only one day instead of the normal 30. Access to the trial versions has already been blocked on the Adobe site, but ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/05/28/problem-with-adobe-trial-versions-in-june/ Many people were underwhelmed—wrongly in my opinion—by the last two releases of Dreamweaver. Well, Adobe has been working for the past year on the next version (Dreamweaver CS4), and it's taken the bold decision to release it as a public beta. Be prepared to be stunned. It's got a new ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/05/27/stunning-new-dreamweaver-in-public-beta/ I've had my head down for the past few months pounding away at my next book, PHP Object-Oriented Solutions. I put the finishing touches to the final chapter a couple of days ago, and it's now in the hands of the friends of ED technical review and editorial process. There's ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/05/03/coming-soon-php-object-oriented-solutions/ The instructions in The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 were written before the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Revised instructions for setting up virtual hosts on Leopard can now be found in the Tutorials section of my website. http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/05/03/virtual-hosts-on-mac-os-x-leopard/ The URL for the Adobe online seminar about Dreamweaver CS3 that I gave in late March is rather hard to find. So, here's a direct link. When you get to the Adobe site, you'll be asked to login with your Adobe ID, and answer a couple of simple questions. The ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/04/18/url-for-recorded-adobe-seminar/ All this week, Adobe is running Adobe Developer Week, a series of seminars on web development. On Friday 28 March, it's my turn to give a talk called "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP". If that sounds an incredibly ambitious subject for a one-hour talk, ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/03/26/join-me-in-an-online-seminar/ Several readers have asked me to explain how to create a link to a specific panel in a Spry tabbed panels widget or accordion. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 shows how to do this from the same page, but not from another page. It's quite simple to do with ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/02/09/spry-tutorial-linking-to-a-non-default-panel/ A week ago, I wrote about the blip in supplies of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP. My publisher (friends of ED) got onto the case immediately, and told me that 388 copies of the book were on the way to Amazon.com. You might think ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/01/28/flying-off-the-shelves/ For the past couple of weeks, the availability of The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP has been listed on Amazon.com as "usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks". Very often, particularly with a recently published book, that means demand has been higher than expected, and ... http://foundationphp.com/blog/2008/01/22/availability-of-essential-guide-to-dreamweaver-cs3/