a.k.a Another Adobe and Macromdia post

So its coming to the end of the day in the UK soon (6:15pmish here now) and i realised that for the first time in ages i hadnt fired up FeedDemon all day WOW - last time that happens. So incase you havent heard there's gonna be a huge merger between Macromedia and Adobe - for more info check out the mini site at www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html. If you are looking for a more personal touch in finding out what this means you NEED to check out Mike Chamber recent blog entry.

Well i could go on about relative links out there but MXNA and Goog have done that well with all the post stating their concerns.

One big concern i have that doesnt seem to of been addressed that well anywere is the community focus. With the likes of of all the MM staff blogs which are an invaluable resource, there participation on mailing lists right down to MXNA? What will come of this?

I just resurected some snippets of mine from November 2003. The snippets are the complete set of Fusedoc tags originally for Homesite 5.5+.

I've now recreated the whole set for CFE

CFE set
Homesite 5.5+ Set

To instal either version just create a new folder called "FuseDoc" in your Snippets folder and unzip to there.

If you don't know where you snippets foler is for CFE then goto: Window » Preference » CFEclipse » Path to Snippets directory

I've never heavily used RegEx find/replaces (which up to this point makes me wonder how?) so I didn't properly take in Adam Howitt's post about Simplifying Form Validation with Eclipse Backreferences first time round. If i did i could of saved myself some time last week...thats another story.

Not only does it show the power of CFE (as well as other editors) but is shows the power of RegEx find and replace.

I though i had mentioned this before but from the look of it I havent. Anyway there is this excellent free tool from http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/ which anyone who uses the Macromedia MX Studio should have in their box of tricks. It allows you to backup, save and restore all important settings and data from Macromedia Dreamweaver, Contribute, Fireworks and Flash.
MM-Exporter recognizes installed versions of Dreamweaver 3, 4, UD4, MX and MX 2004 under Windows and saves selectively:

• all program settings
• all Site-Definitions separately at one time
• the "Configuration" folder
• backup an arbitrary, user defined folder
• Serial numbers of almost every MM
• program into a text file
• and/or alternatively all configuration data and entire settings from Win Registry

Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers have created Take Away, Macromedia news for your iPod or MP3 player. It reads back using a voice synthesizer which isn't too bad, but personally the pitch is quite low, and the read-back speed is quite slow too. If you could change this to your personal liking i could see this catching on quickly

Ive never been an overly huge fan of fusedocs for Fusebox, mainly for all the coding that goes into them (Hmmmm might be laziness coming through there). So with that in mind i decided to help myself out and create a set of Snippets incorporating the "variables" feature from Homesite+ 5.5, making development of them quicker and even easier.

You can download them at http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/downloads/FuseDoc-HS.zip, to instal just create a new folder called "FuseDoc" in your Snippets folder and unzip to there.

Have a look and let me know what you think. I haven't put them through a good test yet, but they are doing well so far so any feed back appreciated.