Skin Spider Web Log Entries
Skin Spider : A Programmatic Configuration Object
Posted: October 25, 2006 at 7:55 AM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . For this update, I have created two configuration objects. One of the things that I want to do in this iteration of the application is pull the configuration information out of the Application.cfc (whi... read more »
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Skin Spider : Moving Application.cfm To ColdFusion MX 7 Application.cfc
Posted: October 23, 2006 at 2:24 PM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . As the first part of Iteration 2, I moved the Application.cfm code over to the newer ColdFusion MX 7 Application.cfc component. The Application.cfc does pretty much the same thing that Application.cf... read more »
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Skin Spider : A Testament To Application Portability
Posted: October 20, 2006 at 8:55 AM by Ben Nadel
I haven't blogged much about this before, but I am a HUGE fan of highly portable application development. If you know me, you know I avoid all sorts of special programming elements, such as: Mapped Paths Installed Custom Tags (CF's custom tag folder) CFX Tags IIS Filters Registered COM objects Centralized Framework Code ( grumble grumble ) ... read more »
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Skin Spider : Starting Iteration 2 With Application Reflection And Evaluation
Posted: October 17, 2006 at 6:40 PM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . I think the Skin Spider application is at a point now where we can be done with Iteration One . Iteration One was a shot-gun approach to web development; really shooting from the hip, getting ideas down... read more »
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Skin Spider : Zip ColdFusion Code Files Available For Download
Posted: October 15, 2006 at 11:06 AM by Ben Nadel
I know that this project is no where near complete AND it has on online code viewer, but some people have asked to be able to download the code to doing some poking around on their machines. To accommodate such curiosity, you can now download ZIP files of each ColdFusion code module. You can download these ZIP files either from the pop-up code vi... read more »
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Skin Spider : Search Page Completed
Posted: October 12, 2006 at 2:43 PM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Really, all I am doing right now is putting the basic finishing touches on the application. This latest round of updates has beefed up the search page ( search.cfm ) - you can actually search it now :) T... read more »
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Skin Spider : Getting Very Close To Phase I Completion
Posted: October 11, 2006 at 7:35 AM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . I have added the video editing and delete confirmation pages. Nothing particularlly special here. These pages are very similar to the tag editing and delete confirmation pages. For editing, I am ... read more »
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Skin Spider : Max Size Data Storage Rules
Posted: October 7, 2006 at 1:29 PM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . As I have been working on this application and testing and letting it run in the background, I am quickly becoming aware that one mega byte files add up very quickly. On my local server, after letting th... read more »
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Skin Spider : Starting To Add / Edit / Modify Data
Posted: October 4, 2006 at 3:59 PM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . In my last update, I had created an entry page to verify age of the user . This was for the protection of our youngsters. It did this checking the user's http referer URL. Someone let me know that their... read more »
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Skin Spider : Results You Can Finally See
Posted: October 3, 2006 at 3:05 PM by Ben Nadel
To learn all about Skin Spider, click here . To view the most updated application, click here . To view the current code base, click here . Up until now, most of the Skin Spider updates have been to core files and spidering techniques. Now, I finally started working on pages the display content. Currently it's only the Home page and the ... read more »
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Skin Spider : Tremendous Weekend Updates
Posted: October 1, 2006 at 11:09 AM by Ben Nadel
View the most updated code base here. Try the most updated application online here. Learn all about Project Skin Spider here. I have made some excellent updates to Project Skin Spider. In particular, I have just about finished the spidering of galleries, videos, and thumbnails. This was really the "proof of concept" code module. This woul... read more »
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Skin Spider : Really Excited About The XML Database
Posted: September 29, 2006 at 8:46 AM by Ben Nadel
Try out the latest version of Skin Spider Live! So far, Project Skin Spider is very exciting. I have been working off of a home-grown XML database and it is, not to boast, going awesome. I have created the get gallery links page. This page spiders over a thumbnail site and finds all links to galleries and adds them to the queue. At first ru... read more »
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Skin Spider : Basic Site Structure Completed
Posted: September 27, 2006 at 2:09 PM by Ben Nadel
I have posted the second bout of coding for Skin Spider . I have also posted the application . This application will be publicly available and will always contain the latest code posting. I have taken the Skin Spider site template and broken it out into a basic ColdFusion site structure for header and footer reuse. I have also created th... read more »
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Skin Spider : The "No Framework" Framework
Posted: September 26, 2006 at 6:05 PM by Ben Nadel
As I start my first phase of Skin Spider , the iterative demo for ColdFusion application development, I am going to be using what I think Hal Helms refers to as the "No Framework" framework. I will be hacking together parts of strategies that I have used before with no real amount of super planning. Hopefully, this should lead to issues, poor cod... read more »
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Skin Spider : A Kinky Approach To Learning ColdFusion Application Development
Posted: September 25, 2006 at 4:01 PM by Ben Nadel
I have been working fairly hard over the years to learn ColdFusion programming as best I can. I have made tremendous strides that I am happy with. I have not, however, been able to tackle the world of frameworks and object oriented programming. This is frustrating to me. I am not saying that I want to program that way. I am saying that I want to h... read more »
