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October 01, 2007

Attention Extension Developers

I'm giving a presentation on Extensibility Options in Dreamweaver CS3 at MAX 2007 in a couple hours, and I've got extensibility on the brain. For those of you who are developing extensions but aren't at MAX, I wanted to ask: What kinds of extensions are you developing? What JSAPI functions (or enhancements to existing functions) do you wish were available? When trying to figure out what your options are, do you mostly search the Configuration folder for examples, read the paper version of the documentation, or search the online version?

Please let me know what you're up to in the comments, so I can get a broader picture of what's going on with those of you out there in the real world. Thanks!

August 13, 2007

Source Control: Do You Use It?

Hi gang! I'm kicking off a new blog category with this post. It's called Real World Use, after the category we have in the Dreamweaver bugbase for issues that are found during normal use of the product (as opposed to those found during feature development or specific testing). This category will be a place for us to ask questions and get feedback about how you're using Dreamweaver in the real world, and perhaps even a place to share some inside info about how we thought you'd use the features we developed.

Let's get things started by talking about source/version control. Version control systems are absolutely vital to software development, and I think one could argue that they're just as important to managing large websites. My question is: Do you use a version control system such as CVS, Subversion, SourceSafe, or Perforce with your site? If so, is your system integrated with Dreamweaver, or do you deal with the repository separately? Are all your web files under source control, or only some of them? What are your main reasons for using source control?

If you're not using a source/version control system, why not? (I don't use one on my personal site, for example, because I'm the only one working on the site, and the overhead of setting up a system outweighs any benefit I'd gain from it.) Is putting your site under source control on your to-do list, and you just haven't gotten to it yet, or is it not even on your radar?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!