First off - yes - the luggage did arrive - around 10 this morning. So now instead of being extra stinky, I'm just my normaly stinky self. Best of all, I got the powercord for both my laptop (the Dell XPS, which takes it's own powerplant to run), my cell, and the PSP.
I've seen a few darn good sessions today. One was with Sandy Clark and CSS. She discussed tables and how/when to use them. (Basically, use them for tabular data, not layout.)
Before lunch, there was a good keynote on IIS 7. I've always preferred Apache, but IIS 7 looks pretty nice. You can configure, via XML, exactly which modules are loaded into each virtual server. One funny point. He showed how he edited an XML file to make index.html one of the default pages for his server. He mentionted how it's the default for Apache and not IIS. Of course, my reaction was, "Gee, why not just add index.html as one of the defaults out of the box??" Anyway, IIS 7 looks to be very configurable and easy to use. Of course, what would be even nicer is multiple virtual servers under XP Pro (and yes, I know it is possible, but I mean supported).
In the last session I attended, I listened to Sean Corfield talk about how CF is in use at Macromedia.com. This was an awesome session. I think many CFML developers deal in smaller, simpler applications and sites. It was nice to see a large scale, very large scale, CFML application.
Oh - and Joe (Model-Glue Joe) was the winner of the CFWACK book. The answer was, "Vanilla Sky."
Archived Comments
There is one design time I have not found CSS works for layout. If you want a footer of a fixed size on the bottom of the browser... the content of the body only flows right if you use tables. If someone has a workaround for this one issue... it's the challenge I have given to some guy named Eric who wrote a book you guys have heard of maybe. I gave it to several DW MM guys... so far no one has defeated this challenge. Any takers?
I'm not sure I understand your rant?
Use CSS to build a web template... and I want the template to have a fixed 50 pixels from the bottom of the page. NEXT fill the body section above the bottom of the page with a little content... and have the footer stay on the bottom. NEXT Fill the content to overflow the page (without using "frames"). The footer should "push" down as the content fills the page. (My rant is that I have never yet found a way to do this with CSS vs Tables) And again... it's an open challenge to any guru who thinks he can achieve what many other gurus have not been able to achieve. (Generally I like CSS, this is one of the very few short commings. It's just a few hairs short of perfect in replacing tables is my point... not an always solution.)
John,
Please go to my site http://www.strikefish.com/n.... I believe this is what you are looking for. Feel free to pull whatever you need off of there to get your layout going. It works with Firefox, Netscape and IE, I haven't tested outside of that. Please let me know if this helps you out. Remember, there's a hack for any situation 8-)...
Ray,
fyi: your posts are now coming through for me in Thunderbird without titles. it seems to be related to the changes you recently made to your blogcfc. I haven't tested in other readers but previous to this one, all your posts had titles in Thunderbird.
Sean
Should be fixed now. I will be updating the blog beta zip on Monday.