Allaire Spectra Tutorial
Martin Burns
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User since: 26 Apr 1999
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Mastered ColdFusion? Need to manage a content-heavy site? You've heard of Allaire's Übertool, Spectra - it's a CF-based app which makes content management a snap. But, it's a bit more work to develop for. The Allaire site has next to no documentation (other than info about the very, very expensive training course). So how do you learn?
Well a nice chap by the name of Scott rides to the rescue. He's putting together a step-by-step guide to putting together a Spectra application. As the jazz tv presenter would have said, "Nice!"
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
