I’ve had some requests that I blog a dmFlash technique that I use in both version 3 and verion 4 of Farcry. This sounds much more glamourous than it actually is. I really just use a container with a handpicked rule but here are the details you will need to use this for yourself:

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Something about Farcry has bothered me for a while. It is difficult to link to content programatically, especially if you have a navigation node with multiple content items under it. For example, I have an application that I was writing which contained a calendar and a registration piece. Each was a separate dmInclude under the [...]

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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the greatest when it comes to database design, optimization, even query code when it comes right down to it. Sure, I can do the standard CRUD things withough a problem but really digging into a database is not my cup of tea. So, when I came [...]

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I don’t know why but the voices inside my head that are supposed to tell me when to stop have stopped talking. Now there’s nothing to stop me from going overboard. To illustrate this point, I give you exhibit A. Exhibit A is a photograph from a recent fast food outing at Fuddruckers (that’s a [...]

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A lot of people that I work with are stuck on Dreamweaver and Homesite for developing ColdFusion. I can understand that since I started out using Homesite. But, it always bugged me that they were not developing updates for it and I always like the biggest and the best. I don’t like Dreamweaver because I [...]

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One thing that I’ve learned a lot about in the last year and a half is CSS. Along with any other language, there is not one right way to do things in CSS. But, there’s usually one way that will make your life in the future much easier. The trick is finding it…

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I was searching through typeadmin for something unrelated to this post and found something interesting that I thought I’d share. It often annoys me that there are only 15 items displayed per page. Show me a site that’s been live for more than a month and I’ll show you an image library with WAY more [...]

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I ran into a situation where I wanted to re-order an entire spot of the webtop. So, how do you do that. I know how to extend the webtop using customadmin.xml, can you get rid of things the same way? The answer is yes, using the “mergetype” attribute. Here’s how…

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I’m sure many people, like me, have taken the short-sighted approach when it comes to pages and containers. Let me just say that the Handpicked Rule is definitely the almighty divine rule as far as I’m concerned. I have had customers who want a contact form. Simple enough, right? Well, what if they want to [...]

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I am in charge of training nearly all of our clients on Farcry once a site is ready for them to begin adding/editing content. At first this can be a very large obstacle for many people because they are simply not used to thinking about certain things. Before Farcry they simply called their web/IT staff [...]

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