ANN: Community MX Week in Review

At Community MX, you'll find fresh content daily for Web designers and
developers. We focus on the most powerful and popular development tools
available: the Macromedia Studio suite. From around the world, we've brought
together 30 of the top experts in their fields. Together, we offer premiere
content, such as articles, tutorials and extensions, as well as support
service in our forums. There you'll find timely help for questions relating
to Studio products, as well as other web development topics such as
programming languages, CSS, and accessibility, among others. You can view
our most recent articles by clicking on any of the links below.

cmxBean.cfc: A Very Simple Bean Implementation in ColdFusion, Part I
Arman Danesh
This article is the first in a series of of articles detailing an extremely
simple implementation of a Bean framework in ColdFusion. This framework will
allow the simple creation of reusable data components which can be used to
access and manipulate data in a database table without writing any new
database code. This article provides a high-level overview of the framework
which will be detailed in future articles.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=28B36

Working With SQL Server Part 1: Installation and Service Access
Adrian Senior
A walk through installing a local instance of SQL Server 2000 for
development work. We'll also look at the Properties dialogue box and see
what options we have for how we interact with the server instance.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=28643

Fundamentally VB.NET: Part I - VB .NET Built-in Data Types
Val Tobin
Are you a Java developer wishing to expand your repertoire of skills to
include VB .NET? It's easier than you might think. You have an understanding
of the programming principles involved; you already know what
try-catch-finally means, and garbage collection, and Object Oriented
Programming. You only need to learn the syntax and a few incidentals, and
you're there. This is the first in a series of articles that covers the
fundamentals of VB .NET syntax. This theory will then be followed by a
tutorial series that puts all your learning to practical use.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=307A3

Using CSV Strings in SQL
Tom Muck
Using SQL Server stored procedures, you can parse and insert individual
items from a comma-separated list in the form of a string. This has great
benefit in that you can avoid complex server-side scripting of batch
inserts. This is useful for multiple categories for one product, or any
other type of one-to-many relationship in a database table.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=4D6BD

Event-Driven Dreamweaver Commands: Startup and Shutdown
Danilo Celic
As you move further into extending Dreamweaver, you're likely to encounter a
situation where you want an action to occur automatically, without any user
intervention such as clicking a button, or accessing a particular menu item.
The folks that built extensibility into Dreamweaver also thought of this as
a possibility, and added in support for a number of events that are very
easy to tap into, by merely placing a Command file in a certain folder, or
by giving a Command a specific file name suffix.

There are three general categories of event-driven Commands that Dreamweaver
allows an Extensioneer to tap into: 1. Application session Commands: Startup
and Shutdown Commands 2. Document related events: Opening a document, before
saving a document, and after saving a document. 3. Menu and Function call
triggered events

In this tutorial, we'll cover the first type, Application session Commands,
and create Dreamweaver Commands that can be run when the application starts
and when it shuts down.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D998F

What's New in FlashPaper 2
Kim Cavanaugh
When Macromedia first introduced the FlashPaper printer feature with the
roll out of Contribute 1, the technology was exciting, but limited in scope.
Yes, you could gain some significant advantages over printing documents to
the Web, particularly PowerPoint files, but beyond providing you the
capability to reduce file sizes and print to a more web-friendly format;
FlashPaper was somewhat limited in what it was able to do. In this article
we'll take a look at the new features that have been added in this latest
version of FlashPaper and demonstrate the ways that the program may be of
value to a web publisher.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D6366

Creating A Photo Blog in PHP: Part 1
Justin Kozuch
Doesn't it seem that everyone and their grandma has a blog these days? Blog,
blog, blog. That's all people talk about lately.

Today, you and I will use Dreamweaver, and a host of other tools, to start
building a different kind of blog. A photo blog! Curious? Intrigued? Scared?
Think you can't do it? I'll bet you Jim's camera that you can! And I'm going
to show you how.

Let's get our photo phreak on!
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B604B

Creating a Spiral Binding with the Ribbon Auto Shape [FREE]
Brian Edgin
Last week we introduced the Ribbon Auto Shape. This week we "Kick it up a
notch!" and use it to create a great looking spiral binding graphic. This
tutorial shows you how to use the Ribbon Auto Shape to create a realistic
looking spiral notebook and also demonstrates some tricks for adjusting Auto
Shape colors and working with ungrouped Auto Shapes.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=1D9B3

The Practice of CSS Column Design: Custom Corners and Sides
John Gallant, Holly Bergevin
Previously in this series, we learned how to create nice clean columns and
boxes containing our content. Unfortunately, it's hard to create a visually
flowing design with rectangles everywhere. Sometimes you just want a little
variety! Using CSS and background images, we'll now show you how to create
some "rounded corners" on your columns, and avoid such a boxy fate, all
without the use of tables!
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=9A998

Programmatic Tweening in Flash
Joey Lott
Want to create programmatic tweens using ActionScript? Then read on. In this
article you'll learn how to use the Tween and easing classes in Flash MX
2004 to create programmatic tweens within your Flash movies, enabling you to
create highly dynamic, yet visually interesting, Flash applications.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=9B986


--
Bill Horvath
Free Tutorials for Studio MX
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
Free 10 Day Trial
http://www.communitymx.com/joincmx.cfm

Good stuff, as usual.
I particularly liked Tom's tutorial on "Using CSV Strings in SQL" and
John/Holly's "The Practice of CSS Column Design: Custom Corners and Sides".
The "Creating A Photo Blog in PHP: Part 1" tutorial looks really good too.
Unfortunately, I can't even spell PHP. How about one in ASP or ASP.NET?


"Bill Horvath .:CMX:." <billhorvath (AT) nospamcommunitymx (DOT) com> wrote

At Community MX, you'll find fresh content daily for Web designers and
developers. We focus on the most powerful and popular development tools
available: the Macromedia Studio suite. From around the world, we've
brought
together 30 of the top experts in their fields. Together, we offer
premiere
content, such as articles, tutorials and extensions, as well as support
service in our forums. There you'll find timely help for questions
relating
to Studio products, as well as other web development topics such as
programming languages, CSS, and accessibility, among others. You can view
our most recent articles by clicking on any of the links below.

cmxBean.cfc: A Very Simple Bean Implementation in ColdFusion, Part I
Arman Danesh
This article is the first in a series of of articles detailing an
extremely
simple implementation of a Bean framework in ColdFusion. This framework
will
allow the simple creation of reusable data components which can be used to
access and manipulate data in a database table without writing any new
database code. This article provides a high-level overview of the
framework
which will be detailed in future articles.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=28B36

Working With SQL Server Part 1: Installation and Service Access
Adrian Senior
A walk through installing a local instance of SQL Server 2000 for
development work. We'll also look at the Properties dialogue box and see
what options we have for how we interact with the server instance.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=28643

Fundamentally VB.NET: Part I - VB .NET Built-in Data Types
Val Tobin
Are you a Java developer wishing to expand your repertoire of skills to
include VB .NET? It's easier than you might think. You have an
understanding
of the programming principles involved; you already know what
try-catch-finally means, and garbage collection, and Object Oriented
Programming. You only need to learn the syntax and a few incidentals, and
you're there. This is the first in a series of articles that covers the
fundamentals of VB .NET syntax. This theory will then be followed by a
tutorial series that puts all your learning to practical use.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=307A3

Using CSV Strings in SQL
Tom Muck
Using SQL Server stored procedures, you can parse and insert individual
items from a comma-separated list in the form of a string. This has great
benefit in that you can avoid complex server-side scripting of batch
inserts. This is useful for multiple categories for one product, or any
other type of one-to-many relationship in a database table.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=4D6BD

Event-Driven Dreamweaver Commands: Startup and Shutdown
Danilo Celic
As you move further into extending Dreamweaver, you're likely to encounter
a
situation where you want an action to occur automatically, without any
user
intervention such as clicking a button, or accessing a particular menu
item.
The folks that built extensibility into Dreamweaver also thought of this
as
a possibility, and added in support for a number of events that are very
easy to tap into, by merely placing a Command file in a certain folder, or
by giving a Command a specific file name suffix.

There are three general categories of event-driven Commands that
Dreamweaver
allows an Extensioneer to tap into: 1. Application session Commands:
Startup
and Shutdown Commands 2. Document related events: Opening a document,
before
saving a document, and after saving a document. 3. Menu and Function call
triggered events

In this tutorial, we'll cover the first type, Application session
Commands,
and create Dreamweaver Commands that can be run when the application
starts
and when it shuts down.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D998F

What's New in FlashPaper 2
Kim Cavanaugh
When Macromedia first introduced the FlashPaper printer feature with the
roll out of Contribute 1, the technology was exciting, but limited in
scope.
Yes, you could gain some significant advantages over printing documents to
the Web, particularly PowerPoint files, but beyond providing you the
capability to reduce file sizes and print to a more web-friendly format;
FlashPaper was somewhat limited in what it was able to do. In this article
we'll take a look at the new features that have been added in this latest
version of FlashPaper and demonstrate the ways that the program may be of
value to a web publisher.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D6366

Creating A Photo Blog in PHP: Part 1
Justin Kozuch
Doesn't it seem that everyone and their grandma has a blog these days?
Blog,
blog, blog. That's all people talk about lately.

Today, you and I will use Dreamweaver, and a host of other tools, to start
building a different kind of blog. A photo blog! Curious? Intrigued?
Scared?
Think you can't do it? I'll bet you Jim's camera that you can! And I'm
going
to show you how.

Let's get our photo phreak on!
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=B604B

Creating a Spiral Binding with the Ribbon Auto Shape [FREE]
Brian Edgin
Last week we introduced the Ribbon Auto Shape. This week we "Kick it up a
notch!" and use it to create a great looking spiral binding graphic. This
tutorial shows you how to use the Ribbon Auto Shape to create a realistic
looking spiral notebook and also demonstrates some tricks for adjusting
Auto
Shape colors and working with ungrouped Auto Shapes.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=1D9B3

The Practice of CSS Column Design: Custom Corners and Sides
John Gallant, Holly Bergevin
Previously in this series, we learned how to create nice clean columns and
boxes containing our content. Unfortunately, it's hard to create a
visually
flowing design with rectangles everywhere. Sometimes you just want a
little
variety! Using CSS and background images, we'll now show you how to create
some "rounded corners" on your columns, and avoid such a boxy fate, all
without the use of tables!
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=9A998

Programmatic Tweening in Flash
Joey Lott
Want to create programmatic tweens using ActionScript? Then read on. In
this
article you'll learn how to use the Tween and easing classes in Flash MX
2004 to create programmatic tweens within your Flash movies, enabling you
to
create highly dynamic, yet visually interesting, Flash applications.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=9B986


--
Bill Horvath
Free Tutorials for Studio MX
http://www.communitymx.com/free.cfm
Free 10 Day Trial
http://www.communitymx.com/joincmx.cfm

Les Matthews wrote:

Good stuff, as usual.
I particularly liked Tom's tutorial on "Using CSV Strings in SQL" and
John/Holly's "The Practice of CSS Column Design: Custom Corners and Sides".
The "Creating A Photo Blog in PHP: Part 1" tutorial looks really good too.
Unfortunately, I can't even spell PHP. How about one in ASP or ASP.NET?

Hey Les,

Tom Muck wrote a series on building a blog at the COmmunity MX.com site, and although the pages talked about are PHP pages, the steps are geared so that they can also be performed for ASP and ASP.NET pages (also JSP and ColdFusion as well) in addition to the PHP by using the built in serverbehaviors within DW. Here's a link that lists the parts of the series:
http://www.communitymx.com/search.cfm?searchbox=simple+blog&searchbutton=Sear ch

HTH


--
Enjoy,
Danilo Celic

Extending Knowledge, Daily
http://www.CommunityMX.com/

Those who aren't looking often have their eyes open widest.

"danilocelic" <danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com> wrote

Hey Les,

Tom Muck wrote a series on building a blog at the COmmunity MX.com site,
and although the pages talked about are PHP pages, the steps are geared so

that they can also be performed for ASP and ASP.NET pages (also JSP and
ColdFusion as well) in addition to the PHP by using the built in
serverbehaviors within DW. Here's a link that lists the parts of the series:

http://www.communitymx.com/search.cfm?searchbox=simple+blog&searchbutton=Sear ch

Thanks!

I've sent you an email at your posted email(danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com),
let me know if you get it.
Mick

danilocelic wrote:

Les Matthews wrote:

Good stuff, as usual.
I particularly liked Tom's tutorial on "Using CSV Strings in SQL" and
John/Holly's "The Practice of CSS Column Design: Custom Corners and
Sides".
The "Creating A Photo Blog in PHP: Part 1" tutorial looks really good
too.
Unfortunately, I can't even spell PHP. How about one in ASP or ASP.NET?


Hey Les,

Tom Muck wrote a series on building a blog at the COmmunity MX.com site,
and although the pages talked about are PHP pages, the steps are geared
so that they can also be performed for ASP and ASP.NET pages (also JSP
and ColdFusion as well) in addition to the PHP by using the built in
serverbehaviors within DW. Here's a link that lists the parts of the
series:
http://www.communitymx.com/search.cfm?searchbox=simple+blog&searchbutton=Sear ch


HTH