Last night, I made some more updates to ColdFusiondocs.com, although minor updates again. I have changed the right panel to have a tabbed layout rather than a top and bottom layout, I think this gives more room for the actual content and both the documentation section and the useful url’s section should be easier for the eye.
Another minor change I did was to focus the search field on load and place the text caret in there. I cant seem to get it to work in Firefox though, would be nice to know if anyone has a fix.
On a side note, I am still struggling to get the deep linking to work mainly because of the fact that the way this app is written. I wil try some more when I get some time as I know its an important feature for this app.
Oh, by the way, as a reminder, you are more than welcome to go and add you CF related links to the app.
Here is the link. www.coldfusiondocs.com/app/
Yes, thats right. I have just released some updates to Coldfusiondocs.com. It’s now got a 4th panel to it which lists the related links for the tag or function in question. The idea here is that, lets say you are browsing cfquery tag on the left panel, you should be able to look at the cfquery related links (ideally blog posts or other useful links specific to cfquery), right there on the right panel.
I think this adds more value to it in a way that you can look at the documentation and the “interesting” blog posts at the same time in the same interface. It would be really helpful to have these links “rated” and the most rated ones show on top but I would leave it like this for few weeks and based on the interest it generates, I would then later on add the rating feature. Remember, this is not a paid project, so I have to keep this development only to my limited free time.
At the moment, anyone can add links by entering a name and email address, and apart from some very basic validations, its straight forward to add a link. You just need to select a tag or function on the left panel (I have added a few in cfgrid to start with), and then on the right lower panel, fill the form in to add links. Thats about it.
There is no moderation at the moment but I will periodically do an exercise to remove any “non-genuine” links (not that I expect them but you never now), until I put some checks in place to validate a link (as in if it really is a CF related link).
So, go ahead and add links. www.coldfusiondocs.com/app/
I have added a new category to the coldfusion documentation at www.coldfusiondocs.com. The category is called ‘CF8 Javascript Functions’ and it lists all the available JS functions in CF8. There are 33 functions in total, however, I wouldnt mind adding any ‘undocumented’ JS functions to the list, so if you know of any, feel free to send them over.
Go check it out. - Select ‘CF8 Javascript Functions’ in the dropdown.
I had some free time this weekend so I decided to work on some of the requested features of coldfusiondocs.com. I could not get a lot done but here is what I have done :-
The search now allows for a “type search” which means you can now search for e.g. Application framework tags, data manipulation tags etc. This was the most asked for feature. So here it is now!
Secondly, I really wanted to work on some way of bookmarking feature to be available. So I used this SWFAddress tool to implement some Deep Linking, it seems to work, however, I am still not confident that its got to a point where I want it to be. More to come on this later. But for now, just those minor updates have been implemented.
The app can be found here .
Any problems, please get in touch.
As a minor update, I have just setup Forums on coldfusiondocs.com for users to report bugs/issues/feature requests etc.
Its here. http://www.coldfusiondocs.com/forum/ (yes, its the Galleon Forums by Ray Camden, thanks Ray:) ).
As a result of feedback from one of my previous posts , I have made a few changes based on the feedback and the site is now live. This site is basically about giving a new face to the Coldfusion documentation, valid upto the latest version.
Website : www.coldfusiondocs.com
Documentation : www.coldfusiondocs.com/app/
I have been spending some time lately on this idea of mine and I would like to get some initial feedback on this. Its to do with the CF documentation that is available to developers. As a developer, I always have to search for CF tags or functions and there is no easy way to do that without doing atleast 3 or 4 clicks or searches. So I went ahead and put it all together in a Flex app. And I also purchased a name for it. www.coldfusiondocs.com (which is not live yet).
The demo app is here ( www.coldfusiondocs.com/app/ ) . It lists all the tags and functions and its easy to filter down to what you are looking for and it lists the attributes and also opens up a HTML version of the tag/function. At the moment, it does not have display the attributes for every tag and function (because thats something I am still working on). I am going to put together a homepage and possibly a forum for the site sometime during this week but the heart of this project is this Flex app I am working on.
I would like to have some feedback and find out if the effort is really worth it.