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Latest Articles from Steve Drucker
By Steve Drucker CommonSpot Content Server, developed by PaperThin, Inc., has been simplifying Web site development and authoring since its introduction in 1998. On April 8, 2004, the newest generation, version 4.0, was released. Web Content Management products usually seek to empower nontechnical user... Jun. 22, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,246 | By Steve Drucker After evaluating and deploying a number of content management systems over the past five years, I guess I've become a bit jaded. Frankly, they all just started to look the same. To be sure, each one has core strengths and weaknesses. Each is usually geared to fit a certain vertical mar... Aug. 12, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,240 | By Steve Drucker Over the last nine years, I must have coded at least 100 ColdFusion applications. Many of these contained similar features - calendaring, e-commerce, content management, and dynamic survey forms. Several were 'one-offs' - based on work done for previous customers with some modified be... Feb. 28, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,602 Replies: 1 | By Steve Drucker I have always considered Ektron's eWebEditPro to be the best, easiest to integrate, and most innovative Web-based WYSIWYG component available. Many software vendors apparently concur with this assessment, for you can find the product embedded in a number of CMS systems ranging from All... Jan. 7, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 8,678 | By Steve Drucker Currently there are more than 200 commercially available content management systems (CMSs). Each has strengths and weaknesses relative to the others...belying their underlying middleware platform and customer history. Oct. 4, 2002 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,267 | By Steve Drucker Men at some times are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar, Act 1: Scene 2 Oct. 5, 2000 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,650 | By Steve Drucker; Robin Dilley Developing a data-entry interface for managing pesky lookup tables can be a laborious task for even the most seasoned CF developer. These tables usually include a few simple data fields - an identity column for use as a primary key, a text descriptor and perhaps some ancillary informat... Oct. 18, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,448 | By Steve Drucker; Robert Segal A common function of ColdFusion applications is the query-by-example interface (QBE) that allows end users to select from a list of properties in order to find matching records. It generally involves creating a simple HTML form. Based on end user input into the form, you construct and ... Jul. 23, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,750 | By Steve Drucker Over the past three years as an Allaire partner, I have been involved in countless marketing presentations where I touted ColdFusion as the best solution for producing Web-based applications. During this time other product vendors, instead of selling against CF based on feature compari... May. 6, 1999 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,570 |
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Steve Drucker is the CEO of Fig Leaf Software, a Macromedia premier solutions and training partner with offices in Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA. He is also a certified Macromedia instructor and MM certified Dreamweaver, Flash, and Advanced ColdFusion MX developer.
