while I have done things that I might regret, I do no forget that I am still alive. A blog by Ian Sheridan.
This article make my heart ache. I read it and see that I do not work for an organization that understands what Joel Spolsky talks about in his article The Development Abstraction Layer. I hope to one day work in a development shop like that. So if you want to know what I am talking about take a look at that article.
*sigh*
After being here for well over 4 years I have finaly been noticed. I had done some Ajax research and I wanted it in a place that I could get to it where ever I was. So I placed it up on my website here. To my amazement it has been noticed.
It all started with Leland Scott including me in the list of sites he used in his research. Then moved on to other authors talking about his article. My view on this is that it is interesting where Web 2.0 is going. I say that it is what terminals were ment to be. With the ability to truely leveradge the modern design of applications today on a distributed network. No longer will you have to buy a whole sweet of to run on all the computers in your office. You will now be able to purchase access to them on a monthly basis or per use OR just a server to hook up to your network with the web application you want on it. The one Web2.0/Ajax application that has captured the number one spot my most used website list is GMAIL. The prime example that always comes to mind when thinking on this subject. It’s nothing special. The application is not earth sharttering but it works perfectly and I use it every day.
So thank you all and I hope that what I have made to help me has helped you.
The title of this entry says it all. For me to go back to Dreamweaver (DW) after so many years of “Homesite/CF Studio” and then this past year with CFEclipse, would be a big step backwards as far as my tool suite goes. Yes I am very familiar with DW, but it cannot stand up against what Eclipse is offering me. The biggest difference being cost ($399 for DW, dont even mention the studio … $999 anyone?, and $0 for CFEclipse). Please don’t mention support. How many times have you needed to call in for support of DW or any of the studio apps? Yes they are good products for designers but taking a WYSIWYG design app and repurposing it for a coding platform has always felt wrong for me and many others. Hence why most people used CFStudio and Homesite for so long after it was abandoned by Macromedia.
So here is my respose to Tom Lane and his comment that were posted on Damon Cooper’s Blog.
“Please! of course you would be saying that you love DW. You worked on the darn thing! how long has it been since you’ve had to really use a good IDE to code with? You guys have a long way to go to offer the suite of tools that Eclipse has right now. Let me also point out that Macromedia is now putting it support behind CFEclipse.”
here is a list of things that I use Eclipse for:
It all adds up.
Ray talked about being asked to include images in the RSS feed available through the BlogCFC application. Interesting that it is a Yahoo included functionality in a RSS feed. I have in the passed included images in the exerpted that is included in a RSS entry but I have never included a peice of media in the feed itself. Is this option needed… no but we all like our toys don’t we?
If you want to read more of what Ray said hop on over.
Thanks to Ryan Guill today I have discovered AjaxIM.
What does this mean? Well I have used it and it is a IM client for the browser. Like AIM and Adium. You can open a browser and have access to a buddy list and chat windows. All created through javascript. It really is interesting how javascript has evolved over the last couple of years and the things that you are capable of now.
I was floatign around and ran into this article on Wired.com about the vulnerabilities of bluetooth and your cell phone. I find it truly fascinating that this is happening. While not unexpected it certainly should of been looked out for.
I think that this is a low risk as a normal person but fame is the flame for the moth of a paparazzi to use this to glean information about your favorite celebrity. I’m not leaving out spying either but that would be even less common.
I did some digging and found this report by Salzburg Research - Agentsmith. some interesting detail for the technophile.
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