ColdFusion Cookbook Update

I thought I'd drop a quick ntoe to let folks know how the site was going, and give a sneak peak of the UI. Most of the functionality is done. What I still need to do is:

  • Implement comments. I will be using Alagad's CAPTHA component for this. (Thanks to them for donating it!)
  • Search
  • RSS
  • Security stuff. As folks know, I'm a bit anal about my URL params, so I need to a quick once through.
  • FAQ. This is partially done actually, and I'll probably launch with it being incomplete for now.

And finally, here is a screen shot. The design is not mine. I got it from the Open Source Web Design site.

Comments (11) Jan 5, 2006 9:03 AM Views: 1513

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mikey's Gravatar Wow, Ray - nice work! Can't wait to get my hands dirty with this.
# Posted By mikey | 1/5/06 9:14 AM
Phil's Gravatar Ray, looks nice and can't wiat. What desing on OSWD is that?
# Posted By Phil | 1/5/06 9:21 AM
Ali's Gravatar Ray,

I love Open Source Web Design.
Being one of those "I can't design my way out of a paper bag". I've ripped, I mean repurposed a lot of designs from there to pretty up apps I've developed.

OSWD and free-stock-photos, designs for the artistically challenged.

Looks great, btw, can't wait to read the articles.

--Ali
# Posted By Ali | 1/5/06 12:22 PM
noname's Gravatar Ray,

On your main page, or whatever page will display your latest cookbook articles, will you code it by parsing the xml feed, or will you just run custom SQL statements?
# Posted By noname | 1/5/06 2:02 PM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar Not custom sql statements per se - but just a use of the model. Ie, I'll call a method that does a getEntries sorted by latest and returning top 10.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 1/5/06 2:12 PM
noname's Gravatar Okay,

Why not have the function (getEntries) parse the XML instead of running an SQL statement? Is it a preference, or is there technically a better reason to run an SQL statement? Assuming you have the programming ability to do both no problem, and that you have an RSS feed running.
# Posted By noname | 1/5/06 2:19 PM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar What XML? The data is in the database. The only place XML comes into play is the RSS feed, and I'm going FROM data to XML.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 1/5/06 2:24 PM
Was Thinking way to hard.'s Gravatar Touche.
# Posted By Was Thinking way to hard. | 1/5/06 2:39 PM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar Phil: andres02. The author had some other cool ones as well.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 1/5/06 3:07 PM
Phil's Gravatar Thanks, Ray!
# Posted By Phil | 1/5/06 4:21 PM
tof's Gravatar Looks good! nice work!
# Posted By tof | 1/5/06 6:18 PM
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