I am reading an inspiration. An essay written by Richard P. Gabriel with a forward by Christopher Alexander (1 - book, 2 - info on). Just reading the forward I feel that I should attempt to reach for the unattainable. To create a “program which makes you gasp because of it’s beauty”. Just having this in mind gives me hart that I can and will do better. Think better. Create better. Be better.
While I’m not bad, my standards are — too low and they should be well over my head. Being over my head is not a bad thing. I will jump and struggle to leap that high and if I do catch it I will place it higher. In the past I have only gone as far as I had to into programming. Today I seek to move further and further into a world that I have only been treading on to move to another place. I have found it very enriching.
I want to thank Bernard Teo for pointing me in this direction. A bunch of essays can be found at Mr. Gabriel’s site (above). Look learn an strive for the “program which makes you gasp because of it’s beauty”.
I have finally updated this blog to Wordpress!!
It has a lot of cool option but the comments moderation is broken because I went for the latest and greatest, version 0.073. I have a fix for it so that will be implemented so no worries. Basically I want to monitor the comment that get placed on this site not to screen out people making comments but to screen out comment spamming (ugh, when will they be stopped?!).
Anyhoo I will now go forward to reinstalling my design.
I have been on a quest of late to master CSS and in my daily hunt for better and better information I ran across this article put out by w3.org. which then led me to this document. A treasure of information that I should of had in my bookmarks. it’s a straight forward syntax definition doc but for some reason I over-looked it before.
I am finding that I never know enough. Hope that keeps up. 
I use DWMX for my coding of CFMX. it might be strange but it’s the closest that I have been able to get to CF Studio of the past (in my opinion the bast text editor that has ever existed for html and CF coding). I am on a MAC and there is no CF studio. BBedit is great but it’s generic nature is not what I need.
With that said the new version of DWMX 2004 for Mac, which I have been using for the last 20 days, is disappointing. It does fix a bunch of issues that I had the the earlier version but it’s so slow and cumbersome that I have grown frustrated with using it. And i have a powerful machine. 17″ Powerbook RAM and CPU maxed out. not to mention I am a keyboard person. I know all the hot-keys and use them often. and they eliminated the one hot-key that I used most often and that was opening and close files with the Site window. you can now only open a file with the mouse, ugh!
and the auto-complete for cfscripting has been changed to my dissatisfaction. it no longer will they auto-complete but have an information widow popup. not too bad but slows me down.
they improved everything else but slowed down or eliminated all the functions that I use most often. It makes me laugh, and saddens me at the same time.
the trial version is here for your testing pleasure: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
I daily go out and surf the blogs for useful information that I can use in my daily thought process while programing. I ran across “Bruce Eckel’s Web Log” initially I went there to read about his trials and tribulation during his resent trip to the fire ravaged Southern California.
In looking around I found this entry about programing and his suggestions to a reader that sparked a responce that I think most of use should read. This one comment that I most like is the quote from the extreme programing style of coding.
start with “The simplest thing that could possibly work” and move on to a more complex solution, if needed
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