"Search Engine Optimization for the ColdFusion Developer"

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker) In today's world, the bulk of our traffic to the websites we create comes from search engines. And with the exception of failed business models burning through VC money, more traffic equals more money. But few developers bother to do even basic search engine optimization, which can dramatically improve their websites performance on Google and the like. The good news is that the basics of SEO is relatively easy to do, especially inside of most CFML applications. We'll go over the fundamentals of SEO and how you can easily integrate these principals into your application. We'll also discuss some free programs you can use to track your progress, and some other techniques to keep you in Google's good graces.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour

SPEAKER: Jeff Gladnick

Jeff Gladnick lives in San Francisco, CA and has been a ColdFusion developer for over 10 years, since version 4.5. He's developed web applications for a variety of companies including the Produce Marketing Association, Dun & Bradstreet, The Gap, and Adobe. He particularly likes Model Glue as a framework, and also owns http://www.greatdentalwebsites.com, a company that allows dentists to create their own website (using a model-glue application).

WHEN: Thurs. May 27, 12:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

RECORDING: As always, the meeting will be recorded, and the recording URL will be posted after the meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com.

Check out this sweet hack of the iPhone running Android!

Ok..here's the situation...

I'm creating an HTML email with tables and background colors.

Lo and behold, if you nest tables, Outlook 2007 will strip out the background color. Wait...what? Yeah, exactly.

But, when you open the email in outlook and then view message in browser, voila! the background color emerges!

Thank you MS for using 2 different HTML rendering engines. One of the best cases of, 'the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing'

::: waving finger gesture :::

Does anyone know of any comparison sites out there that I can view?
Or does anyone know off the top of their head the pros/cons of each?

I know the big glaring PRO of Railo = FREE. But, I've always believed in, "you get what you pay for".

Thanks!

I've installed Aptana Standalone, then downloaded CFBuilder. I was hoping that I could install CFBuilder as an add-on to Aptana, but seems like I can't.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Should I do the CFBuilder as a standlone then Aptana as a plug-in?

Thoughts?

Thanx

I just started a new job where they use Eclipse. No biggie. They just wanted to use it because of it's Tortoise integration and CFEclipse.

I have yet to embrace Eclipse or CFEclipse for that matter. I'm strictly a DW fan.

Since DW CS4 is on my home machine and I don't employ any versioning control on my home machines (does anyone do this?), I was wondering if there were any pitfalls with using the SVN plugin for DW CS4.

Thanks everyone!

Ok, I just downloaded the latest and greatest Redmond browser. I have to say there are some good things and then of course, there are bad things. It's by far worlds better than IE 6, but it's still....Internet Explorer.

Here's a thought...Why doesn't M$ just stop making IE altogether? Seriously? They've made web development a headache since day one of IE. Tried to gain market share and control how to program for the web. That failed miserably.

Suggestion? Why not have M$ partner with FF to help distribute with their OS? MS won't partner with the other browsers (Safari? ha! Ballmer and Jobs partnering?, Chrome? ha! Didn't Ballmer want to eradicate google from the planet?) Just makes sense to me if M$ and FF partner. We'd be so much better off with web development and "standards" compliance.

Ok..time for me to get off the hookah heheheh

Oh...Bring Down IE6!

I was very intrigued at the new IE 8 so I went and downloaded it and installed it.

After 3mins of using it, I realized, "God this clicking sound with every link click is like a mosquito on your ear while you're trying to sleep". I haven't used IE in MONTHS (if it weren't so damn tied to the WinOS I'd have removed it eons ago), so I've been relieved of it's annoyances.

Then I used the greatest thing since sliced bread, and searched google for "annoying click sounds IE".

Found this: Remove Annoying Clicks IE

Nuff said....

no wait..."DIE IE!!!"

Now...Nuff said..

I was intrigued by Ray Camden's blog about simple dialog popups with jQuery. I saw some of his examples and wanted to take them a step further.

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2009/2/1/Creating-a-Dialog-with-jQuery-UI


His example shows that the content is inline with the document and the jQuery code just extracts it from the page and shows it in a dialog box. Cool, yeah, but...what if you wanted to pull in external content?

This is what I came up with:

The "example" div is within the page. It's blank. But, get's populated by the open option within the dialog options. That's how I got around it.

Can anyone tell me if this is the "best practices" way of doing this? Is there a better more efficient way?

Dialog Demo

I've had the iPhone 1.0 a long time ago. Right when they introduced it. I don't own it anymore. I had 3 irritating months with it and sold it. Moved onto the Blackberry. It's become my new girlfriend

I just saw that release notes of the iPhone 3.0 SDK...and am wondering what's all the hoopla about?

This is my Blackberry vs. iPhone 3.0 SDK comparison

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