Yuma Blog

Don't Believe Me? Check Your Browser.

Brad Weber — Tue, 11-Nov-2008 14:41:53 GMT

Sometimes customers refuse to believe the tech support information they receive from humans. But their browsers never lie. :-)

Yuma v1.1 Shipped

Brad Weber — Wed, 13-Aug-2008 18:17:38 GMT

The update includes improved socket performance, xml exception handling, and the purging of expired session files. It is recommended for all Yuma developers.

Living in a World of Spam

Joe Strout — Thu, 24-Jul-2008 18:37:53 GMT

Spammers. Oh, how I hate them. Read on for some of the strategies we've used to keep them from ruining things for real users.

Yuma v1.0 Shipped!

Brad Weber — Tue, 15-Jul-2008 16:59:42 GMT

We shipped Yuma v1.0 today. Thank you to all of the active beta testers who provided great feedback during the open beta period.

Yuma 1.0fc1

Joe Strout — Fri, 11-Jul-2008 22:53:51 GMT

We are excited to report that Yuma has reached "Final Candidate" stage! That means it's no longer a beta — unless we find some last-minute glitch, this version will become the official 1.0 release.

Yuma Documentation? Wiki Wiki!

Brad Weber — Thu, 10-Jul-2008 21:22:56 GMT

We're excited to announce that we now have documentation for Yuma. And we're also pleased that the Yuma documentation system provides us another opportunity to demonstrate Yuma in action.

BBCode Tables

Joe Strout — Fri, 04-Jul-2008 05:32:31 GMT

We've added table support to our BBCode implementation. Read the sordid story of how and why.

Yuma Beta 9

Joe Strout — Fri, 27-Jun-2008 23:24:53 GMT

The latest — and hopefully last — beta of Yuma 1.0 is now available.

Yuma b8 Is Available

Brad Weber — Mon, 16-Jun-2008 15:07:35 GMT

We've updated Yuma. There are no functional differences between beta 8 and beta 7. We extended the expiration date for the beta.

Yuma 1.0b7

Joe Strout — Sat, 31-May-2008 05:41:23 GMT

The latest, greatest, and hopefully last beta of Yuma 1.0 is now available.

Yuma Safari

Brad Weber — Mon, 19-May-2008 06:03:30 GMT

Several of you have reported in the last week that certain Yuma website pages appear to be unavailable. We tracked down the issue and are happy to share the details with you.

Yuma b6 Is Available

Brad Weber — Wed, 14-May-2008 17:57:21 GMT

We've updated Yuma. There are no functional differences between beta 6 and beta 5. We extended the expiration date for the beta and included a Mac/PPC compiled version of mod_fastcgi.so.

Make All Pages Runnable

Joe Strout — Tue, 29-Apr-2008 23:31:23 GMT

When you start using Yuma, you'll quickly find that most of your code is in include files, and not generally meant to be executed directly. But occasionally, people will try to execute them directly — and you can make that do something useful.

File Uploads In Yuma

Brad Weber — Fri, 25-Apr-2008 04:18:32 GMT

Need to transfer files to your Yuma server? I'll show you what it takes on both the client and server sides.

Yuma b5 Is Available

Brad Weber — Fri, 18-Apr-2008 17:09:08 GMT

We've updated Yuma. The biggest news is that the Yuma Enterprise Server is now available for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux. We've also expanded session features and added support for setting the HTTP status for your reply.

What's taking so long?

Joe Strout — Thu, 17-Apr-2008 20:26:20 GMT

Wondering why Yuma is still in beta? Read on for a peek at what we're still working on, and when you can expect an official release.

Popup Menus in Web Forms

Brad Weber — Tue, 15-Apr-2008 17:27:47 GMT

When you have more mutually exclusive choices to offer a user than is practical to manage with radio buttons, you'll want to use a popup menu. I'll show you how to construct one and give you a simple method you can use to populate them.

Introducing Yuma Forum

Brad Weber — Sat, 12-Apr-2008 00:32:27 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that the second product in our suite of Yuma community tools is up and running. We will continue to use this blog for news, announcements, and other musings. But please direct your browser to the Yuma Forum for open community discussion about Yuma development.

BBCode Now Supported!

Joe Strout — Thu, 10-Apr-2008 18:55:58 GMT

Tired of looking at boring old plain text? Good news: our blog software — and the upcoming forum and documentation apps — now support BBCode, a lightweight markup language.

Post Data Saved My Bacon

Joe Strout — Wed, 09-Apr-2008 21:10:45 GMT

A funny thing happened to me yesterday while working on some Yuma code. It ultimately led to a great demonstration of the Yuma Development Server's "Post Data" viewer.

Handling Radio Buttons in Form Posts

Brad Weber — Tue, 08-Apr-2008 23:48:11 GMT

Radio buttons allow users to make a selection among a mutually exclusive set of choices. The way in which the user selection is passed to your Yuma script may not be obvious. I've attempted to clarify it.

Yuma 1.0b4

Joe Strout — Tue, 08-Apr-2008 00:10:28 GMT

We've just posted beta 4 of Yuma. Read on to see what's new.

Global Variables in Yuma

Joe Strout — Sat, 05-Apr-2008 20:15:02 GMT

Global variables, often considered evil or dangerous in a large desktop app, are rather less evil in Yuma. Let's consider why that is, as well as the syntax you'll need to use them.

HTML Best Practices

Brad Weber — Fri, 04-Apr-2008 20:53:42 GMT

To be an effective web developer, you need to be mindful not only of the rules of your scripting language, but of HTML as well. In my experience, most web developers excel in the former and sometimes ignore the latter. I've got some tips that will help you (and your pages) look great to your clients.

Class Interfaces in Yuma

Joe Strout — Thu, 03-Apr-2008 16:05:37 GMT

A class interface defines a set of methods that other classes may choose to implement. It's a powerful form of generality: code can be written to work with a class interface, and that code will work with ANY class that implements that interface. So today, I'm going to talk about the pre-defined interfaces in the Yuma framework.

Managing Your Yuma Framework

Brad Weber — Wed, 02-Apr-2008 14:42:43 GMT

You'll no doubt build up a framework of Yuma code that you'll want to utilize when building your Yuma pages. I'll show you how I keep my framework organized and make it easy to reference in each of your pages.

Viewing Request Info

Joe Strout — Tue, 01-Apr-2008 13:22:25 GMT

Today I'd like to point out a handy feature of the Yuma Development Server. Under the log window, there is a disclosable "Details" area...

Yuma Blog: Hello World

Brad Weber — Mon, 31-Mar-2008 17:30:40 GMT

Welcome to the Yuma Blog. We've created it to keep in touch with the Yuma development community. It is written entirely in Yuma (and HTML/CSS, of course).